How To Grow Carrot

How to grow carrots

The carrot is easy and profitable crop to grow, great to encourage kids to eat their veggies! With so many types of these popular vegetables carrots available, can be grown in beds, containers and even window boxes that make them suitable for gardens of all sizes. Taste of home-grown carrots are far superior to supermarketproduce-trying to grow carrots on your own and see for yourself!

When growing carrots

Carrots are usually sown outdoors between March and July and harvested throughout the summer and fall. Early varieties such as ' Nantes 2 ' can be sown in early February under cloches or in the confines of a greenhouse. Growing carrots under cloches helps warm the soil and speed up pengecambahan, which is very useful if you live in a cold area or would like to make a start.

Carrot varieties

Carrot (excellent for containers) early Maincrop carrot Chantenay carrots (for both container) colorful carrots

Nantes 2 Kingston Caracas purple haze

Mignon autumn King 2 Carson Yellowstone

Mini finger Bangor red cored Chantenay Supreme Rainbow

Sweet Parmex candle Royal Chantenay Healthmaster

White satin Tendersnax

Mokum

Where to grow carrots

Carrots grow best in fertile, light soil in a sunny position. Heavy or stony soils can lead to stunted or forked carrots. If you have clay, trying to grow varieties like ' Parmex ' and ' Carson ', which has a short root, or grow your carrots in containers (see below for more information on how to grow carrots in containers). The best plants foradding lots of organic matter to your soil before growing up. Carrots don't like fresh manured soil so the seeds of the best beds are ready in autumn before sowing. You can also grow carrots in a greenhouse all winter to spring crops. Carrots are not suitable for growing in a greenhouse during the months of spring and summer because they prefer cooler conditions.

how thin the carrots

How to sow carrots

Before sowing carrots, remove any weeds and digging the ground you to either go to the land where big lumps of wet, disconnect any. Making exercise in soil with a trowel or by putting the old broom handle or a bamboo cane across the land gentlypushing down. The goal to a depth of 1 cm (½ in), leaving about 30 cm (12 inches) between each drill. Sprinkle the seeds of carrots You thin along the bor-sow seeds too thick will make it difficult for thinning out later! Gently pull the ground from the top back of your seed drill so they are well covered. The water area is good withfine-rose watering can to minimize disruption of the seed. Keep the soil moisture topengecambahan, which should take about 10-20 days.

Thinning the carrot

Once Your carrot seeds large enough to handle thin out they will need in order to make every room a carrot to grow properly. This is best done gradually so that you have backup seedlings have to snail attack! For the purposes of the first thinning to leave one seedling every 2-4 cm, pull out between anything. About four weeks later You can further Your thin carrot for late planting distance of 10 cm (4 inch)-the delicious taste of thinnings in salads. If you develop finger or baby carrots then end 5 cmplanting distance will suffice.

Caring for Your carrots

Watering should be kept to a minimum after seedlings emerge-only water when the soil is dry. Make sure Your carrot plants kept free of weeds to reduce competition for light, water and nutrients. If your shoulder carrot poked through the ground then they can be earthed to prevent them from changing.

Growing carrots in containers

The same happy carrot growing in containers as they are on the ground – ideal for terraces and balconies! It's best to choose a container of at least 20 cm (8 in) deep toallow the roots to grow. Choose varieties that are small or early carrot Parmex type 'like ', ' Mini ', ' finger ' or Mokum Chantenay like ' Highest Chantenay red Cored '. Any compost can be used when growing carrots on the terrace, including multi-purpose and soil-based compost (John Innes). You should feed Your carrots throughout the season to ensure good growth-balanced liquid feed can be used every two weeks or alternatively use a slow release fertilizer. Make sure that the compost does not dry, especially during hot weather. It is possible to try to grow carrots in room but this is usually not recommended. Carrots are a winter crop, choose the temperature of the pools of low and high levels of natural light to thrive.

Harvest

Early varieties such as ' Nantes 2 ' could be harvested from 9 weeks after sowing and maincrop varieties such as ' autumn King 2 ' can be harvested from 10 weeks. Times in