Saving 'Healthmaster' Carrot Seeds: Biennial Challenges

‘Healthmaster’ is a hybrid (Davers)—saved seeds won’t breed true. Buy from Thompson & Morgan or Vesey’s.

If Saving Anyway

• Carrots are biennials: grow roots year 1, flower year 2.
• Overwinter 20 roots in wet sand, cool (not freezing).
• Replant spring; they’ll flower. Bag seed heads to catch seed.
• Isolate from Queen Anne’s Lace (wild carrot)—crosses readily.

Hybrid seed saving is unreliable; purchase fresh seed.