Purple Carrot
Glow Stix Moonrise is an exclusive carrot variety from Johnny's Selected Seeds, celebrated for its bold, eye-catching colors that set it apart in any garden bed or harvest basket. These compact carrots reach harvest in just 75 days, making them one of the quicker options for gardeners eager to enjoy homegrown roots. With moderate water needs and a preference for well-drained, fertile soil, they're straightforward to grow while delivering the visual drama their name promises.
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Bold colors are the defining feature of this variety, making it as much a feast for the eyes as the dinner plate. The compact growth habit means you can tuck these carrots into tight spaces, spacing them just 3 inches apart with 18-inch rows. At 75 days to harvest, you'll go from seed to table quickly enough to fit multiple sowings into a single growing season, and their frost tolerance means you can push the season in both directions.
Fresh eating, roasting, and storage. These carrots work beautifully in raw applications where their colors shine, but the compact root structure and quick maturity also make them suitable for small-space gardeners, container growing, and succession planting for continuous harvest throughout the season.
Sow directly into the garden bed once soil can be worked in spring. Carrots prefer direct seeding and don't transplant well. Ensure soil is loose, deeply worked, and free of rocks or compacted layers that will cause forked roots. Keep the seedbed consistently moist until germination occurs.
Harvest at 75 days after sowing, or when roots reach your desired size. Gently loosen soil around each carrot and pull straight up, holding the greens near the base. You can also harvest younger, smaller roots for tender carrots, or allow them to mature fully. In areas with fall frosts, harvest before the first hard freeze; in milder regions, carrots can remain in the ground through winter and be harvested as needed.
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“Glow Stix Moonrise carries the exclusive stamp of Johnny's Selected Seeds, a company with deep roots in American vegetable breeding and seed selection. This variety represents the modern breeding interest in bringing visual excitement back to everyday vegetables, breaking away from the uniform orange carrots that dominated grocery stores for decades. The exclusive designation suggests this is a proprietary development, cultivated specifically for gardeners seeking varieties that deliver both performance and personality.”