Grow Perfect Carrots At Home With This Easy Trick
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- Опубліковано 18 бер 2024
- Once you understand that the hardest part of growing carrot is simply getting them to germinate you’ll find that carrots are one of the easiest things to grow in your garden! It’s all about keeping your seed moist at all times and I have just the trick for you! With loose soil you will be growing large carrots in no time.
I have never grown carrots before so I followed your guideline with the cardboard and this morning I counted 26 carrots sprouting! I’m so happy and shocked. Haha. Thanks!
Exciting ! 😊
I had sworn off carrots because i could never get them to sprout. Im going to try again with this method though.
We mixed a little sharp sand into the impossible rice field soil, planted seeds, stuck a couple metal post along the sides for a future fence, & 5 hours later there was an electrical storm. 24 hours after planting there were sprouts that I insisted were weeds, but they lined up too perfectly… took another 48 before I could reassure myself that were indeed carrots, tomatoes, & flowers
Had been farming nearly 30 years at that point, & had never seen seeds sprout so quickly. I’m in a tropical climate, so 5 -7 days isn’t unusual. However, I did manage to sprout hollyhocks within 48 hours, by placing a tabletop greenhouse on top of an old gas stove that had a pilot & replaced the range hood light with a grow bulb. Keep spritzing until ready to plant.
That is an interesting observation, in theory it could be that the seeds were burst and that helped them germinate.
Woah. Reanimation.
What’s up Doc? 🐇🥕. Awesome thanks for the tips.
No problem, glad to help!
As usual, succinct and to the point, Jacques delivers! 🥕🥕🥕
Glad you liked it!
I just sowed carrot seeds and covered the bed with cardboard (it’s been 70 plus degrees here the last few days). Hopefully they come up! It’s well watered ❤
Should work really well!
They molded 🥴. It was a few hot days in a row and I learned moist plus heat with cardboard cover equals dead seeds lol. I re-sowed, had a stretch of rainy cold days (used a frost cover) and the carrots have come up beautifully 🤩
Omg thank you! We’re planting carrots this week 😁 going to try this.
Thanks!
Epic gardening needs this.
Thanks for the tips! ❤🥕
No problem, glad to help!
I still got snow, but was hoping staggered sowing may help let them choose when to sprout. Wish me luck.
Best of luck and hopefully you get some wonderful carrots!
Perfectly direct video!!! Thanks so much.🥕🥕🥕
Never seen the trick of folding the seed packet before. Nice!
The entire rest of it was helpful too. ❤Thanks😊
Omg I was wondering when to remove the cardboard and this video helped so much. Thanks!
This worked !! I have 2 beds growing now and planting the last in this week rain. I always try to plant new seeds in the April/ May rain. This is the third and last succession. Love it
My carrots loved my garden beds but the soil had settled so much I ended up with super short carrots. Sad. I’m topping them up as soon as this batch of overwintered carrots are pulled for another round of spring carrots! 👍🏻Luckily I live in Texas so the moisture is not an issue as it’s super humid most of the time and I’ve never had any trouble getting my carrots to germinate. I love growing carrots!
Broadfork to soften the soil, as they're growing I also like to soften the soil 2-3 inches from the base, and if you don't want green carrots, mound the base of the greens covering the top of the carrots as well.
Getting good soil coverage is for sure great to get full orange carrots.
broadfork is my new favorite !
I’m about to grow carrots very soon here. My onions started sprouting!
Nice! Homegrown onions are delicious.
I plan on mixing in some coco coir into the carrot and beets area this year since my garden seems to have a lot of clay, i think it should help loosen it and hopefully hold more moisture
Wish I'd seen this before planting my carrots! I'll keep this in mind for the next batch
Good info! I'm going to try the cardboard trick for all my root veggies.
Tell you what I planted carrots my first time 4 years ago and did AWESOME so figured it was stupid easy. Haven't done worth a crap since then.
Even better if you water the soil just before you plant the seeds :)
Awesome bro, thanks for tips
No problem, glad to help!
Gonna try burlap great tip ty
Good advice 😃
I'm trying the cornstarch slurry method because I put them in a bed with things already growing around them. It's where you cook a cornstarch and water slurry, let it cool, put it in a piping bag mixed with the seeds and pipe that into the soil trench. The cornstarch is supposed to hold in moisture and allow for even seed dispersal. We'll see if it works... I grew carrots one year without even trying and then every subsequent year they've failed, probably from being too dry.... 🤞🏻
Three is sowing them in a too low raised bed when you have clay soil beneath. My carrots were puny lol
I have a source for coffee bag burlap bags. I think this would work great for retaining moisture, wouldn’t it?
Coffee burlap bags are great for this, only issue is if you wait too long and and the seedlings grow into the weave which you then can't remove. So you have to be on it.
I used this technique a few weeks ago and all the seedlings got mowed down by pill bugs and slugs. Not sure how to deal with that but I’ll keep trying. Any tips?
You can try sheer frost fabric instead which lets light through and might keep the slugs at bay
Its to difficult for me but ill try again thus year
❤❤❤❤ I just started my garden and I’m in need of help on the soil mix, can you give me some tips ❤
I planted carrots in large outdoor containers with loose soil around mid January. The tips in this and earlier videos helped them sprout super quickly (!thank you!) but they havent progressed since then and I have no idea why? Anyone have any ideas?
(Zone 7b)
Nice!
Would that trick work for radishes too? I just planted some seeds and want to make sure they're successful!
It might help with radishes as well!
Sow radishes into trays, 4 seeds into one cell. If they have come up and show forming first true leaves, re-plant them into bed. That works well also with beets.
Do you have a playlist for where to start as a total beginner? I’m known to have a brown thumb… I killed a snake plant 😅
What would your advice be for a wet cold climate like the UK? I planted carrots last year and the rain drowned them, I barely got a handful from my raised bed.
I love her channel and work man! I'm curious about using cardboard because I know a lot of people do in their gardens And I would love to as well especially in my compost. But a friend recently said she doesn't because of formaldehyde in the cardboard. So aren't you worried about that at all or is there something you can share about that?
When is the right time to plant carrots? I planted mine in January. They're about 3 in inches now. Is there still time to grow? Zone 9 a.
You can technically grow them year round but summer carrots won't taste as good as cooler season carrots.
@@jacquesinthegarden thanks Jacques
Last time we tried to grow carrots, we checked under the cardboard and we found a scorpion 😂
Instructions unclear: now I'm a carrot.
this man looks like plant dad wendigoon
This guy sounds like he loves "thick carrots"
So I ain't the only one who be thinking it..
Still a good Gardner, tho just a lil bit tangy
You know me, I get a half ounce of carrot seed and yeet it over a 10x50 "row" picking thins them. Some restaurants want tinies
Carrots prefer cool weather right? I was going tobstart some this spring but i realised it was getting pretty hot for them
They taste best when grown in cool weather but can grow in warmer conditions just fine. They just won't be as sweet.
Is it carrot seed in particular where you can use the cardboard/wood trick or is this with all seeds?
I wanna try growing carrots! I have a small raise bed about 12” depth of soil. Is that too small?
My problem was birds coming through and eating the tender shoots. X_X I had half left, but the rest disappeared one by one before I finally got netting. lol
That ending scene...
I tried this method this year. And this morning when I lifted my cardboard on day eight. There was fuzzy white mold, all along the ground, where my cardboard was? I had a couple little green sprouts, that I wiped away when I wiped the mold off.😢Will this affect my germination or my carrots, if they do decide to germinate now?
My trick is to put the seeds in a container with sand and pour water in it, let them swell for a few days and then bring them out in the garden soil. Otherwise the ants used to feed all the seeds away 🙈🙈🙈
Mine haven’t been wanting to grow I have compost mix and potting soil. Too much light perhaps?
Planet carrots a few weeks back and the sprouts are starting to pop-up. Does it matter how close together they are?
What varieties of carrots do you think taste best? (Drives me nuts how seed catalogs all talk about yield, storage, resistance factors and end up pushing the tasteless varieties!😖)
I use a container that had powdered parmesan in it to sprinkle smaller seeds like carrots and lettuce. They have to stay covered until they get their true leaves, otherwise the idiot hordes of tiny birds and fat robins will pluck them up and leave them on the dirt like a further insult...
That is a great method as well!
Wow
I had about 16 inches of greens last year with 1 inch of carrots. The soil didntvseem compacted or dry
I always thought that carrot seeds need light to germinate.
Will carrots grow in 88 to 90°F?
But how do you fork the soil when they're already growing? It gets so hard I can't even pull a carrot out without ripping it in half even if I dig around with my fingers and try to grab the carrot itself 😭
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How do you know when carrots are ready to harvest?
They'll start to push up from the soil.
I grew carrots indoors and they came out really small and tasting like permanent markers 😂 any idea what I did wrong? Not sure if I maybe left them too long, if the reduced light affected their taste, etc
Probably the light situation.
Is there anything you can do for my carrot. 😭
How do you avoid cats from pooping or peeing on your garden beds?? I'm desperate.
Damn Mr Beast , you got a lil chubby around the checks ain't cha
What’s up doc¿
I’ve seen Charles Dowding and others say the complete opposite to this.
What is the complete opposite in this context? The loosening of the soil? If you aren't practicing long term no dig then you aren't going to get wonderful results in the first few years without loosening soil.
@@jacquesinthegardensorry, to clarify, I meant when you said that the soil must be 'crumbly and loose'. I've been advised the opposite i.e it should be firm. I'm not being hyperbolic when I say that I have seen great carrots with my own eyes no-dig from the get-go, no forking at all and not after practicing no dig for a long time. I guess I just get confused when I see opposite advice being given online from different gardners. More than one way to skin a cat I guess 🤷♂ such is life
@@WillSavageThere is big difference between firm compost layer vs compacted natural soil. Carrots like well-draining and even somewhat sandy soil. A light one. They definitely grow also in heavy clay soil, but doesn't penetrate 40 cm into the ground (my record carrot was 43 cm grown in raised bed).
Yo, heads up; try to harvest ur ripe veggies before April 1st, 2024 or you’ll lose ur harvest to the eclipse… thanks for the value ✊🏽
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Ever heard of no dig?
I have, I have a few no dig beds but I also don't stick to a single method. It works ok in my region but isn't something I am strict on. Forking the soil is an ok compromise for me.
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