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Gary Woods writes:
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| Do you have the common weed "Queen Ann's Lace" there? It's really wild
| carrot, and that's what your carrots will revert to, given half a chance.

Not in the UK, it won't :-) From the OED:

Queen Anne's lace, a popular name for various umbelliferous plants
bearing clusters of small white flowers, esp., in North America,
the wild carrot, Daucus carota, and in Britain, cow parsley,
Anthriscus sylvestris.

But, yes, we have what you call Queen Anne's Lace! And what we do.
And you are quite right that it will revert to the former.

| Suzanne Ashworth's "Seed to Seed" has everything you might want to know and
| more.

I doubt it :-) When I want to know something, a lot of the time I find
that it isn't even known by the bleeding-edge researchers ....


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.