Available in a range of colours, such as red, white, yellow (and of course orange) carrot plants are excellent for adding a splash of colour to your growing patch and plate. Packed with vitamin C, they are one of the best vegetable plants to grow if you are a beginner gardener, where they will tolerate a degree of frost.

Interestingly, it was during the sixteenth where orange carrots first appeared, where they were hybridised before becoming widely used across England.