Seed of the Month: Little Fingers "Baby" Carrots

Little Fingers “Baby” Carrots

New for 2013!!  

Who doesn’t love baby carrots?  Isn’t a baby carrot just an immature regular carrot?  Well, yes and no.  You can pick immature carrots but you must be vigilant to pick them before they get too big.  Little Fingers are slender and tender at maturity (65 days).  Little Fingers “Baby” Carrots are extremely sweet and perform well in containers and small garden plots.  If  you love to cook this is a great carrot to play with!

Little Fingers “Baby” Carrots are open pollinated (that is, the seeds of an open pollinated plant will produce a “true” replica of the parent plant).

Try  this nice recipe from Simply Recipes:

Roasted Baby Carrots Recipe

• 1 1/2 lbs of 5 inch long baby carrots, carefully washed, patted dry, greens cropped to 1 inch above top of carrot
• 1 medium red onion, peeled, cut lengthwise (root to top) into 8-12 wedges
• 2 Tbsp olive oil
• 1 Tbsp fresh chopped rosemary, or 1 teaspoon of dried rosemary
• Garlic powder
• Salt
• Freshly ground black pepper

1 Preheat oven to 400°F. Gently toss together the carrots, red onion, rosemary to coat with the olive oil. Lay out on a rimmed baking pan, lined with aluminum foil. Sprinkle with garlic powder, salt, and pepper.
2 Roast for 30 to 40 minutes on middle rack or bottom rack, until well browned.