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10 Best Tips For Growing Carrots

April 19, 2019 by Crafty For Home

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These easy gardening tips guide you to grow carrots for the best harvest at home garden, and it even works for a container garden.

Use This Guide For Planting And Caring Carrots

Over the years, I grow the best carrots ever. I can compare it with the store-bought one, but the homegrown one always the best. There are some simple tips and tricks on how to grow carrots. I am gladly sharing these tips with you. So you also will get the best carrot harvest ever.

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10 Best Tips For Growing Carrots

Disclaimer: I don’t have any scientific background with this matter. It is solely based on my own experience.

Best Tips For Growing Carrots

Plant carrot in early spring

If you live in a colder region (I garden in zone 4A by the way), direct sow carrot seed in early spring as soon as the ground warms up and workable. Prepare the garden by turning up the soil and mix some organic matter like compost or manure.

Remove any rocks or gravel if there is any. Water the planting area until moist, to make it easier to sow the tiny carrot seeds.

Water planted carrot seeds with warm water

Carrot seed is tiny, and take up to 21 days to germinate. Once you plant the seeds about 1/4 inch deep and cover it with dirt as it says on the seed package, prepare some warm water, not hot. If you can dip your hand on the water, then it is good.

Water planted seeds with warm water. Keep the soil moist to speed up germination and water it with regular tap water or rainwater (any water that available) during the growing season.

Use warm water only once when you finish planting the seed. Use regular water for daily watering.

Plant onion or allium family with carrot

Onion, green onion, chives or any allium family is one of companion plant for carrots.

Growing Chives With Carrots

Onion scent masks the sweet-smelling carrot that will repel carrot flies. The onion flower also attracts pollinators.

Plant radish with carrot together

When you plant carrot seeds, mix it with some radish seeds. Radish will germinate faster and mature faster than carrots.

Growing Radish With Carrots

Radish will loosen up soil when it is ready to harvest, and reduce thining process for carrot seedlings.

Cover the carrot bed with a net to prevent carrot flies

Use garden net or fabric tulle to cover carrot during the growing season to avoid carrot flies infestation.

Covering carrots with tulle fabric

This method is easy when you grow carrots on the container or raised garden box.

Put some onion leaves on the hole after pulling carrot during the growing season

If the carrot is ready to harvest or you need it for cooking but still have a growing season left, put some onion leaves (I tend to crush the leaves) around the hole after you pull the carrot. This method is also to prevent carrot flies.

Leave it until few weeks after frost to sweeten up

If you have early frost coming (here is around September 12 in zone 4A) and you have carrots ready to harvest, you can leave some of them in the ground.

Carrot in the early frost

Don’t pull them yet, because the light frost will sweeten up carrots. Harvest them just before the ground freezing. I tend to harvest my carrots in late October to a few weeks of November.

Grow short variety carrots in a container

My favorite carrot is Scarlet Nantes that is sweet, tender and crispy. Any carrot varieties can grow in a container, but you need a deeper size one if you grow a long carrot variety.

The Little Fingers carrot and Tonda Di Parigi carrot are one of the best varieties to grow on the container.

Rotate the garden to plant carrot

It is recommended to rotate the garden, that’s mean to try to avoid planting the same crop on the same spot year after year.

Growing Carrots

It is the same with carrot or parsnip. if you find the infested carrot, toss it in the trash bin, not compost.

Grow rainbow carrots for fun gardening with kids

My kids are so excited when they pull colorful carrots. A rainbow blend of purple, red, white, yellow, orange carrots are enjoyable harvest when you involve kids on gardening.

How Long Do Carrot Take To Grow

Carrots grow 65-80 days depending on the variety. It is best to sow the seed in early spring as soon as the ground is workable if you live in a colder zone and plant again 2-3 weeks after that to extend the harvest.

Water the carrots to the bottom, and make sure the planting area is well-drained one. Keep the soil moist for growing carrot.

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When To Harvest Carrot

While the maturity time for carrot depends on the variety you grow, but you still can harvest carrot anytime when the root already forms if you like to have baby carrots.

Carrot is best to grow in the first year, if you leave them on the ground, it will go to seed and the root becomes woody.

Harvesting carrots

If you have frost coming, you can leave the carrots in the ground for a few weeks to sweeten up.

Even though carrot is one of the easiest vegetables to grow, it is still a good idea to plant them with other plants as companion planting.

Carrot does well for tomato companion planting as the root system allow air circulation for growing tomatoes.

There is a good reason why Carrot Love Tomatoes is one of famous gardening book, have you get one yet?

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I can say carrot is one of the most favorite vegetables to grow especially with kids. It is fun for them to grow it and homegrown carrot is delicious, sweeter and crunchy.

Tips For Planting And Caring Carrots Successfully

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  1. Rae Smylie

    February 28, 2023 at 8:40 am

    I enjoyed this post as a long time gardener who is a transplant from fertile east Texas to rocky infertile Colorado Springs soil!

    I have been at a loss as to what plants to grow. My yard is inhospitable as a new build site and construction dirt only.

    My solution was large ranch troughs with either two or four feet walls. Plants do better in these troughs as I greatly amended the soil from a garden center.

    However, most of the plant nurseries employees don’t know much about gardening, much less what specific plants do well here.

    Your tomatoes info explained why my indeterminate tomatoes didn’t ripen before our first snow.

    I discovered from my hair dresser that all vegetables in Colorado do better with some partial shade so my husband made some covered (canopies) and all of my plants did better.

    Thanks again for your informative post.
    I am going to further amend the soil in these troughs this spring, plant determinate tomatoes and include carrots and radishes.

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    • Crafty For Home

      March 13, 2023 at 11:21 am

      Hi Rae, thank you for stopping by. My gardening zone is even colder here (zone 4). We have an unpredictable first frost date here, sometimes earlier than expected. So yes, quite challenging, but gardening is always rewarding. I love the canopies to provide shade. Thank you for sharing the idea. That sounds fantastic!

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