@Martin Hawes 🇺🇦 They are the same variety that I planted, so they aren't really wild. They just grow on their own, much like pumpkins that the seeds didn't all completely compost, or the potatoes that I didn't quite get all of, so they grow back season after season.
My inlaws were surprised when I grew carrots, they said it’s hard and I had nooo problem with them! Had carrots growing on carrots! Lol i didn’t even believe them when they said it’s hard until i saw this video! Crazy!
It's nice for Jacque to confirm something I learned through trial and error. Worth noting, once carrots are established, they actually don't love a lot of water.
@@cbdcdiva6872 dried tiger poop the zoos sell it in uk I’d be surprised if some entrepreneurs in Texas aren’t doing the same as Texas has more tigers than there are in the wild . Cat’s instinctively know it’s a huge cat and won’t go near it !
Dried tea leaves, from teabags, seem to be effective. We use a plastic nut jar (plastic jar, sold with peanuts in it), with a few holes drilled in the lid, to spread dried tea leaf powder on beds where the cats like to poop.
I was worried the freezing temps we got in florida would kill all the carrot seedlings I have going in a container but they just started putting on true leaves this week 😀
Whoa. So good. Last year a weed that looks just like a carrot that I’ve never seen before in my yard grew right where I planted all my carrots. I treated it with love all summer long and then realized it was a weed, not a carrot. Only got q few carrots. This is SUPER HELPFUL INFO!!
😂😂😂 I’m sorry, not laughing AT you; but just thinking about & imagining that scenario playing out, + your reaction & facial expression after realizing it was just a weed-is hilarious! LOL
We have had weeds that looked like carrots and when pulled they have a root that looks like a mini white carrot. Even smells like one! I’ve wondered if perhaps its a wild variety, or a weed that’s adapted as to avoid being pulled. 😂
@@greatoaksfarm4080I watched a TV show where they said that what someone thought was just a white carrot was actually hemlock but I'm not sure of its accuracy or anything.
@@Emiliapocalypse i think it's easier to get inorganic inclusions when there are inorganic things to be included. good soil should be mostly carbon. that being said, I have never grown carrots in sand
One trick I successfully used on seeds that are difficult to germinate, such as carrots and celery, was to use fine, loose soil, and then harvest leaf mold from deeper inside the compost pile, and lay it moist side down over the seed bed. The germination rate was incredible, it drew worms, fed the soil, and protected the soil from the elements. If you are wondering what leaf mold looks like, it is layers of compressed leaves and looks like the pages of a book that have been soaked in water, it crumbles when rubbed, and is chocolate brown. Just another idea.
I live in the suburbs in San Diego, we used to have a lot of coyotes that came up out of the canyons and ran around on the streets and jumping fences into peoples backyards going for rabbits cats and small dogs. We had a garden in the side of our house and one at the front that did amazing for years. Around 10 houses neighboring mine in about the span of 2 years all got big dogs. The coyotes do not come around anymore, neither do the possum. So now we have a major increase in rats, mice, and rabbits, that’s make gardening extremely difficult.
I never realized germinating carrots was something people struggle with omg, I just throw em in the soil and water every few days and I’ve never had an issue
I subscribed. This is my new favorite thing. Never thought growing food would be the only way I get to eat it. Can't really afford fresh veggies anymore. Sucks. Going back to how my great grandparents lived. Thank you for the tip. My son wants to grow carrots so bad this year. And beets for some reason lol.
My soil is extremely sandy and dries out fast, and i inevitably forget to water me beds enough! Thus my only carrot and parsnip success has been with indoor germination. Even paper towel method, then putting out as soon as there's root sprout, can work.
You're already 4 steps more than you need to be. I literally just chuck some seeds in soil pucks, watering every day, then put them in the window, and when they're big enough, transplant.
Question---is there a reason why not doing the ruth stout thing; cover them with about 10 inches of straw/hay/grass? then they can grow through the mulch and it keeps the moisture in...
Hmm… you know, that’s a dayyum good point!! Come to think of it, neither have I… like, ever. Why? How? What?! 🤔 I mean, they are super tiny, itty-bitty lil’ seeds, tho… so I guess they’re pretty hard to see unless you’re rly looking for them? 🤷♀️Who knew?! 😝
We just throw our seeds into the ground and rake it, lol. Works a treat, but being cramped gets you smaller carrots. Tip, remove half the growth and pickle them as little carrots :)
The vermiculite and spraying them/keeping them wet is what I do... I spray them in morning, afternoon, and evening as needed (some mornings I don't have to cause they are still damp from the night before). I never thought about covering them or shading them, though. good idea!
My failure over the last 3yrs has definitely been lacking moisture winds dry out the soil to quick and carrots don't sit deep in the soil. This year I'm going to soak the area and cover with a good layer hay for those first couple of weeks
Thanks so much for this video. Have a question though, how do you ensure the carrots grow big. Tried my hands on growing carrots last season but none ever grew 'big'. Ended up with really small carrots. Tasted nice though🤣 (or at least that's what I told myself - as a reward for all the hardwork)🤭
Put a little protective netting/tiny garden canopy (with wire half-rings every so many inches apart, to both hold & keep it up over the seedlings/plants, as well as giving it some rigidity for protection from the birds & whatnot. They aren’t able to get to them, but sunlight & water pass through just fine. Don’t need to buy anything fancy or expensive, either… you could quite easily just make something yourself out of very simple, inexpensive, & easy to find craft-like materials. And/or if you’re really invested (or think it might work), you cld put a lil’ scarecrow out by the garden. Lol not sure if scarecrows actually work or not.. but I know caging & netting does pretty good. 😁😋 Best of luck to you & your garden!
Man I’m so glad I saw this video bc I just got my first carrot seeds germinating this morning and I’m so excited about it! I took the boards off bc I saw some germinating but it’s only been 4-5 days so maybe I should put the boards back over them until the others germinate as well.
Is the drip irrigation on over the period of 2 weeks? Or is there just the water you added when you sowed them? Don’t they need light to germinate? I like the method you’re showing, i’m just confused about these things. Would be really happy about an answer! Sorry for my bad english :D
Obviously you didn’t have enough depth of good soil by the size and crookedness of the carrot you’re showing us. Have at least 14” of good soil to give your carrots room to grow long and straight. Enjoy your stuff. Keep digging !
Wow, thank you, thank you for this! Now I know why my carrots were so slow and generally poorly germinating. Apparently some people have no such trouble though this is great info for many of us, certainly for me.
Last year I gardened on my MIL’s homestead, I did everything right with my carrots while her brother threw theirs in the ground and covered them. Don’t even remember seeing them use a watering can. I got four carrots out of 200 or so seeds, and my uncle got a trillion. Unfair, I think I’m going to try not babying my plants this year 😅
I somehow grew a carrot in two solo cups. They were connected at the tops with one upside down with the bottom (now the top) cut out. I wrapped them in plastic and shrunk it over the stove so they were bound together. Then I put it under a grow light in my basement and babied it with water. Somehow, I grew a carrot. That was just about a year ago, and I still have it in soil. It's a yellow carrot; my friend gave me the seeds in a plastic bag, so I don't know the species name. I've eaten some of the greens, and they taste great. I'm surprised it hasn't gone to seed. It's hanging out in a window sill now and has for over 6 months.
Put the carrot seeds in a teabag, place the teabag in a jar and pour warm water 40-50°C over it and let it sit to cool down. Do this 2-3 times and then let them dry. This will remove some essential oils which stop/slow the seeds from srprouting. Your seeds will germinate in half the time.
I tried carrots last year, my first time, in a container 18"x 18" over 1 foot depth, I was very good at planting 2 seeds per hole without pellet . I had 100% germination and waited a bit to thin and had baby carrots to enjoy and later some amazing carrots
Me stumbling across this video right after I just came in from looking at the container I planted carrots and radishes in, wondering why only the carrots hadn’t sprouted: fuuuuccc
I am so fortunate. I always have such luck with carrot germination. (Long Island, ny) I still have them in my beds and can't wait to harvest them now that they have been frost touched.
I've had no problem germinating carrots. Raised bed. Mixed in 1 part vermiculite, 1 part peat, 1 part soil. Drip irrigation. Set irrigation to run every day at the same time. I get crazy tomatoes and carrots.
Wait wait wait carrots germinate? I thought you had to plant carrots to get…more carrots. You know, this actually explains a lot of what’s going on in my garden.
I don't buy seeds from stores because idk how they pick and dry the seed. I know most fruits and vegetables are hard to grow from what you buy but that how I do things. But y'all are doing a wonderful job growing your stuff new the cities and small towns
You look like that guy from law and order criminal intent, also the same guy from full metal jacket you know gomer Pyle. You look exactly like a younger version of him LOL
Is it cheating if I use those peat moss pods? I essentially just get guaranteed growth for all seeds I plant. Once spouted, plants that can go outside go there right away. I have successfully planted 3 seeds in 12 pods. I then washed off the moss when they got big enough and planted them all in the raised bed I have. I tossed ones that got damaged in the process and have 28 carrot plants that have their leafs flourishing. The funny thing is we got rain recently so on the ground where I tossed the throw away seedlings I have tiny carrot plants happily trying to grow. 😂
A little tip: try to make sure the soil underneath doesn’t have a lot of stones or big wood chips. I’ve done that before and the carrots sometimes stop growing deep enough or grow in really weird shapes. I’ve found that they like it a bit sandy.
So i did mine on a container pot with garden soil, peat moss and potting mix starter. Should i not have put peatmoss with mine or is that fine? I did the same process like yours however. 😅
Thanks for this…two weeks! Didn’t realize that they could not dry out not even for one day. Question, do you water after your initial watering when you plant it or does covering with vermiculite and card board help the soil to retain moisture from that initial watering for the entire two week period?
I tried to plant carrots when I was 8 and they literally did not grow. My dad said the seeds were probably duds. We literally watered daily, but our soil is awful and where we live, it would probably dry out if you didn't water them for at least 2 hours or so a day.
that's crazy because I start them in seed trays and then transfer to direct soil. been doing that for 3 years and never once had a problem. I've also done the wet the soil and shake a handful over it. even forgot to water them for three weeks still got a ton of carrots soooo...... don't you get tired of being wrong?
Make a corn starch slurry, put it in a Ziploc bag, add your seeds to it and shake. You can now pipe it into your toes and it will be more evenly spaced plus the corn starch will help retain water
I really like the Danvers shorts. One year we had a crop that was easily as big around as my wrist! And they weren't woody either. They were super sweet!
I just put the seeds in the bed and water them a little. They've dried out quite a bit, but I always have so many plants that I have to remove some in between so that they grow better. We have been growing carrots this way for at least twenty years.
That's crazy. I let my carrots go to flower one year, and I've had wild carrots every year since.
If they are wild they will grow a lot more easily than a cultivated variety
Excellent
@Martin Hawes 🇺🇦 They are the same variety that I planted, so they aren't really wild. They just grow on their own, much like pumpkins that the seeds didn't all completely compost, or the potatoes that I didn't quite get all of, so they grow back season after season.
@@joshuahouse682 volunteer
Same happened to me with grapes and now my entire tree line/shrubs are full of grapes 🤣 they travelled about 100ft in 5 years
Once established, don’t over watered! Let’s the roots drive down deep looking for moisture for longer straighter carrots!
Detroit be like even carrots get better water than us.
Hey from Australia!
Nice tip!
Good tip, thank you
Appreciate the information. TY. May the season be plentiful for you. 🙏🏽
I just tossed my seeds in my front “garden”. No special soil, no watering/covering. I live in the NE US. I had carrots under bushes 😂
My inlaws were surprised when I grew carrots, they said it’s hard and I had nooo problem with them! Had carrots growing on carrots! Lol i didn’t even believe them when they said it’s hard until i saw this video! Crazy!
It's nice for Jacque to confirm something I learned through trial and error. Worth noting, once carrots are established, they actually don't love a lot of water.
Thank you!
Also, thank you for not blasting text over the top of this short video.
The hardest thing in my garden is keeping stray cats away. They will find any open swath of soil and use it as a toilet.
Same here and cat poop really stinks.😵
same here!! I'm trying cat scat mats to see if that works
@@cbdcdiva6872 dried tiger poop the zoos sell it in uk I’d be surprised if some entrepreneurs in Texas aren’t doing the same as Texas has more tigers than there are in the wild . Cat’s instinctively know it’s a huge cat and won’t go near it !
@@andrewthompson7867 👀
Dried tea leaves, from teabags, seem to be effective. We use a plastic nut jar (plastic jar, sold with peanuts in it), with a few holes drilled in the lid, to spread dried tea leaf powder on beds where the cats like to poop.
I was worried the freezing temps we got in florida would kill all the carrot seedlings I have going in a container but they just started putting on true leaves this week 😀
I got affected with the cold snap too in Miami. The rain definately did not help.
In Texas the freeze killed off like 85% of my garden and I have a 2400 sqff garden. It got down to 16
I thought carrots did better or well at least in cold climate where they grow underground like other root vegetables
@@samanthashaw8329 through slower acclimation yes. but that snap was soo harsh, im in west tx and im replanting everything.. :(
@@nayohme728 I'm in West Virginia
So the brutal cold got even more brutal the last cold spell we had
Whoa. So good. Last year a weed that looks just like a carrot that I’ve never seen before in my yard grew right where I planted all my carrots. I treated it with love all summer long and then realized it was a weed, not a carrot. Only got q few carrots. This is SUPER HELPFUL INFO!!
😂😂😂 I’m sorry, not laughing AT you; but just thinking about & imagining that scenario playing out, + your reaction & facial expression after realizing it was just a weed-is hilarious! LOL
@@ashleyfalcon125 yes, i got a good laugh about it.
@@ashleyfalcon125 Yes, I chuckled at the imagery too.
We have had weeds that looked like carrots and when pulled they have a root that looks like a mini white carrot. Even smells like one! I’ve wondered if perhaps its a wild variety, or a weed that’s adapted as to avoid being pulled. 😂
@@greatoaksfarm4080I watched a TV show where they said that what someone thought was just a white carrot was actually hemlock but I'm not sure of its accuracy or anything.
Tip: mix the seeds up with dry sand to make seed distribution more even when poured into the grooves in the ground.
sandy carrots 😬
@@rolls_8798 wash
@@rolls_8798like the dirty carrots you usually eat because they’re grown in soil
@@Emiliapocalypse i think it's easier to get inorganic inclusions when there are inorganic things to be included. good soil should be mostly carbon.
that being said, I have never grown carrots in sand
@@rolls_8798You’re tarded
Grow carrots in a spiral circle you get more into such a tiny space ✌️😎
I’ve been getting a lot of gardening shorts lately
It’s pretty great
To Schindler's list to gardening shorts, youtube is telling me something
WoW!! All the videos watched no one mentioned making sure they didn’t dry out. Thank you!
Now I finally understand why it's so hard to germinate carrot seeds! Thank you for this video.
Anyone else hear “The hardest thing about growing carrots at home is getting them to Germany” 😂
One trick I successfully used on seeds that are difficult to germinate, such as carrots and celery, was to use fine, loose soil, and then harvest leaf mold from deeper inside the compost pile, and lay it moist side down over the seed bed. The germination rate was incredible, it drew worms, fed the soil, and protected the soil from the elements. If you are wondering what leaf mold looks like, it is layers of compressed leaves and looks like the pages of a book that have been soaked in water, it crumbles when rubbed, and is chocolate brown. Just another idea.
That sounds so smart!!
thank you for using descriptive words
Hi. Do you water them while they are covered or is that not a problem Thank you!
0:15 So right about drying out, that’s usually my issue 😂
Tip #2. Grow in sandy soil. Carrotts grow larger in loose soil
One wonders how carrots ever survived without us. I sow my carrot seeds and after a while i have carrots
I swear you are in my head!!! thank you for this!
I alway have great germination when it comes to carrots 🥕 guess that I have been lucky 🍀 😊
Same. But we got a dry spell and they died after nice poofy growth, but before roots formed. 😭
FOR A SECOND I THOUGHT MR. BEAST WAS FARMING.
I would bulk up the seed volume with a bunch of washed sand. prior to sowing
Too many seedlings will have to be thinned out, otherwise.
Why are you telling people it’s hard it’s not I grow carrots in my one bedroom apartment and I’ve never had problems germinating seeds
I have good luck with germinating carrots but unlucky when it comes to the root growth.
Great tip with the cardboard. I'll try that. Thanks Jacques.
A wood plank works too
If you plant each carrot inside a pipe or tube you’ll have the longest thickest and straightest carrots ever
What about inside cardboard toilet rolls? 🤔
Yep. so difficult to get started. But so worth it as its plane sailing afterwards and nothing tastes better than fresh carrots.
Thank you!!!! I will be doing EXACTLY this. I think mine dried out which is why i lost most of them.. and the squirrels digging in my garden! Oy vey!
I live in the suburbs in San Diego, we used to have a lot of coyotes that came up out of the canyons and ran around on the streets and jumping fences into peoples backyards going for rabbits cats and small dogs. We had a garden in the side of our house and one at the front that did amazing for years. Around 10 houses neighboring mine in about the span of 2 years all got big dogs. The coyotes do not come around anymore, neither do the possum. So now we have a major increase in rats, mice, and rabbits, that’s make gardening extremely difficult.
I have rabbits, they haven’t been a problem yet.
I do rabbit poop hunting 🤣
I put it in a bucket of water and water the tomatoes with it!
I never realized germinating carrots was something people struggle with omg, I just throw em in the soil and water every few days and I’ve never had an issue
I subscribed. This is my new favorite thing. Never thought growing food would be the only way I get to eat it. Can't really afford fresh veggies anymore. Sucks. Going back to how my great grandparents lived. Thank you for the tip. My son wants to grow carrots so bad this year. And beets for some reason lol.
Lol beets, gross! To me, beets taste like dirt, or the way dirt/soil smells. Bleh!🤢 My mom loves them, though. Yuck.
My soil is extremely sandy and dries out fast, and i inevitably forget to water me beds enough! Thus my only carrot and parsnip success has been with indoor germination. Even paper towel method, then putting out as soon as there's root sprout, can work.
Why have I never creased the seed packet before 😅
Loving the enthusiasm. Not sure how you showed up on my feed, but welcome.
Have yourself a thumbs up.
Cheers!
You're already 4 steps more than you need to be. I literally just chuck some seeds in soil pucks, watering every day, then put them in the window, and when they're big enough, transplant.
Question---is there a reason why not doing the ruth stout thing; cover them with about 10 inches of straw/hay/grass? then they can grow through the mulch and it keeps the moisture in...
Have you tilled the ground where you're planting them at. So it's flappy loose and soft?
You've maybe convinced me to try again. I'm convinced carrots just hate me.
Always wondered why my carrots never germinated thank you
Well now I know why my carrots 🥕never made it. Thank now I will try again.
Cornstarch trick works better and keeps the seedlings moisture more consistent for just incase you forget to water
Add “fertilizer” (any plant food) to the water , helps with the early nutrients that the carrots need to grow fatter
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Mr Beast The Farmer 💀
Why is Mr. Beast’s brother growling carrots?
I have a doubt, how to get carrot seeds, where and how to extract the seeds. I have never seen carrot seeds!
Hmm… you know, that’s a dayyum good point!! Come to think of it, neither have I… like, ever.
Why? How? What?!
🤔 I mean, they are super tiny, itty-bitty lil’ seeds, tho… so I guess they’re pretty hard to see unless you’re rly looking for them? 🤷♀️Who knew?! 😝
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This is how
That’s why mine didn’t grow, I thought I was doing something wrong
Thank you. My carrots never yield, phenomenal tip.
my issue with carrots is getting them to make a carrot and not just be tops
Do you water any after the first day before the two weeks?
Thank you!! I have tried growing carrots for years, never success, and always thought they were bad seeds.
We just throw our seeds into the ground and rake it, lol. Works a treat, but being cramped gets you smaller carrots.
Tip, remove half the growth and pickle them as little carrots :)
It would also help if you would wet down the cardboard as well
Thank you I have had trouble with germination in the past living a real hot dry climate
The vermiculite and spraying them/keeping them wet is what I do... I spray them in morning, afternoon, and evening as needed (some mornings I don't have to cause they are still damp from the night before). I never thought about covering them or shading them, though. good idea!
I trust any man who provides a hands-on tutorial with dirty hands.
I just did some in a grow tent indoors to see what happens.
Leggy as hell cuz they barely got any light
My failure over the last 3yrs has definitely been lacking moisture winds dry out the soil to quick and carrots don't sit deep in the soil. This year I'm going to soak the area and cover with a good layer hay for those first couple of weeks
@ Jonathan Carroll, try straw as hay can have many seeds. Hay is for food, straw is for bedding
@@normacroberts-hakizimana8785 lmao I tend to go back and forth with that. Do know the difference. It's funny I always tell my wife the same thing.
Great timing with this information. I’m gathering information on how to grow carrots this year.
Mr beast if he was into gardening
Thanks so much for this video. Have a question though, how do you ensure the carrots grow big. Tried my hands on growing carrots last season but none ever grew 'big'. Ended up with really small carrots. Tasted nice though🤣 (or at least that's what I told myself - as a reward for all the hardwork)🤭
The birds attack my seedlings mercilessly.
Put a little protective netting/tiny garden canopy (with wire half-rings every so many inches apart, to both hold & keep it up over the seedlings/plants, as well as giving it some rigidity for protection from the birds & whatnot. They aren’t able to get to them, but sunlight & water pass through just fine. Don’t need to buy anything fancy or expensive, either… you could quite easily just make something yourself out of very simple, inexpensive, & easy to find craft-like materials.
And/or if you’re really invested (or think it might work), you cld put a lil’ scarecrow out by the garden. Lol not sure if scarecrows actually work or not.. but I know caging & netting does pretty good. 😁😋
Best of luck to you & your garden!
You put the seeds to close
So in that two week period you don't re-water them at all?
He had it on drip
Man I’m so glad I saw this video bc I just got my first carrot seeds germinating this morning and I’m so excited about it! I took the boards off bc I saw some germinating but it’s only been 4-5 days so maybe I should put the boards back over them until the others germinate as well.
Senior beast
Is the drip irrigation on over the period of 2 weeks? Or is there just the water you added when you sowed them? Don’t they need light to germinate? I like the method you’re showing, i’m just confused about these things. Would be really happy about an answer!
Sorry for my bad english :D
Obviously you didn’t have enough depth of good soil by the size and crookedness of the carrot you’re showing us. Have at least 14” of good soil to give your carrots room to grow long and straight. Enjoy your stuff. Keep digging !
Wow, thank you, thank you for this! Now I know why my carrots were so slow and generally poorly germinating. Apparently some people have no such trouble though this is great info for many of us, certainly for me.
Last year I gardened on my MIL’s homestead, I did everything right with my carrots while her brother threw theirs in the ground and covered them. Don’t even remember seeing them use a watering can. I got four carrots out of 200 or so seeds, and my uncle got a trillion. Unfair, I think I’m going to try not babying my plants this year 😅
I somehow grew a carrot in two solo cups. They were connected at the tops with one upside down with the bottom (now the top) cut out. I wrapped them in plastic and shrunk it over the stove so they were bound together. Then I put it under a grow light in my basement and babied it with water. Somehow, I grew a carrot. That was just about a year ago, and I still have it in soil. It's a yellow carrot; my friend gave me the seeds in a plastic bag, so I don't know the species name. I've eaten some of the greens, and they taste great. I'm surprised it hasn't gone to seed. It's hanging out in a window sill now and has for over 6 months.
Put the carrot seeds in a teabag, place the teabag in a jar and pour warm water 40-50°C over it and let it sit to cool down. Do this 2-3 times and then let them dry. This will remove some essential oils which stop/slow the seeds from srprouting.
Your seeds will germinate in half the time.
And then you get massive rain like we had in New Zealand, and they split. You'd have loved my volcano loan, enriched by veggie scraps...
I tried carrots last year, my first time, in a container 18"x 18" over 1 foot depth, I was very good at planting 2 seeds per hole without pellet . I had 100% germination and waited a bit to thin and had baby carrots to enjoy and later some amazing carrots
Thank you
Me stumbling across this video right after I just came in from looking at the container I planted carrots and radishes in, wondering why only the carrots hadn’t sprouted: fuuuuccc
I am so fortunate. I always have such luck with carrot germination. (Long Island, ny) I still have them in my beds and can't wait to harvest them now that they have been frost touched.
I've had no problem germinating carrots. Raised bed. Mixed in 1 part vermiculite, 1 part peat, 1 part soil. Drip irrigation. Set irrigation to run every day at the same time. I get crazy tomatoes and carrots.
Wait wait wait carrots germinate? I thought you had to plant carrots to get…more carrots. You know, this actually explains a lot of what’s going on in my garden.
I don't buy seeds from stores because idk how they pick and dry the seed. I know most fruits and vegetables are hard to grow from what you buy but that how I do things. But y'all are doing a wonderful job growing your stuff new the cities and small towns
You look like that guy from law and order criminal intent, also the same guy from full metal jacket you know gomer Pyle. You look exactly like a younger version of him LOL
I gotta ask: since you're in San Diego have you ever helped with the community gardens or the seed libraries at the public library?
Is it cheating if I use those peat moss pods? I essentially just get guaranteed growth for all seeds I plant. Once spouted, plants that can go outside go there right away. I have successfully planted 3 seeds in 12 pods. I then washed off the moss when they got big enough and planted them all in the raised bed I have. I tossed ones that got damaged in the process and have 28 carrot plants that have their leafs flourishing. The funny thing is we got rain recently so on the ground where I tossed the throw away seedlings I have tiny carrot plants happily trying to grow. 😂
A little tip: try to make sure the soil underneath doesn’t have a lot of stones or big wood chips. I’ve done that before and the carrots sometimes stop growing deep enough or grow in really weird shapes. I’ve found that they like it a bit sandy.
Thanks for this great tip!
So i did mine on a container pot with garden soil, peat moss and potting mix starter. Should i not have put peatmoss with mine or is that fine? I did the same process like yours however. 😅
Thanks for this…two weeks! Didn’t realize that they could not dry out not even for one day.
Question, do you water after your initial watering when you plant it or does covering with vermiculite and card board help the soil to retain moisture from that initial watering for the entire two week period?
Once you cover it with cardboard, I'm assuming you have to keep watering it every day or so?? and continue to cover it for the two weeks.
cardboad!! f*ck. yes. thats is brilliant *sigh* and so damn easy to think of when actually thinking when chilling in the garden.
My carrots germinate no problem. My question is getting them to store. What do I do once they are picked??? They are soft in two days.
That's really crazy because mine dried out for two days and it just sprouted we planted it in a egg Carton so it works as a greenhouse
I tried to plant carrots when I was 8 and they literally did not grow. My dad said the seeds were probably duds. We literally watered daily, but our soil is awful and where we live, it would probably dry out if you didn't water them for at least 2 hours or so a day.
that's crazy because I start them in seed trays and then transfer to direct soil. been doing that for 3 years and never once had a problem. I've also done the wet the soil and shake a handful over it. even forgot to water them for three weeks still got a ton of carrots soooo...... don't you get tired of being wrong?
Make a corn starch slurry, put it in a Ziploc bag, add your seeds to it and shake. You can now pipe it into your toes and it will be more evenly spaced plus the corn starch will help retain water
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Do we have to keep watering them everyday after sowing for 14 days or just let them be covered after soaking wet
For you beginner farmers you just need to give your carrots a quick wash to de-germinate them when they're done
I really like the Danvers shorts. One year we had a crop that was easily as big around as my wrist! And they weren't woody either. They were super sweet!
I just put the seeds in the bed and water them a little. They've dried out quite a bit, but I always have so many plants that I have to remove some in between so that they grow better. We have been growing carrots this way for at least twenty years.
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