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Crunchy, sweet and full of character โ nothing compares to garden-grown carrots. Grow them directly in the ground, in raised beds or in pots, and discover the tempting range of varieties available.
Getting carrots just right can be challenging, but when you know how itโs easy!
In this short video we share our top tips on how to sow, tend and harvest these winning roots so you can look forward to a truly bumper harvest.
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Your garden plannwr is incredible
When we think of carrots, traditionally, we think of the orange root we love to eat fresh from the garden. Although purple carrots are now popular with gardeners, theyโre not new. Our first carrots, which originated in Afghanistan, were skinny, stringy, multi-branched and dark purple.
By the Greek and Roman eras, they were somewhat larger, but still purple. Roman soldiers were said to have boiled carrots in broth to release the sexual inhibitions of female captives. This belief was echoed by the British botanist, Nicolas Culpeper who remarked in his 1653 Herbal: โthe seeds being taken in wine โฆ helpeth conception.โ
Carrots arrived in England, via Italy and the Netherlands, by the 1400s. By then, yellow types had become more popular. By the 1500s, orange carrots had appeared. All of our contemporary types were derived from the โLong Orange Dutchโ carrots developed by 1721. The Dutch were then the leading carrot breeders whose selections were orange, fleshy and flavourful.
There are three main types of carrots that we grow in our garden today: Danvers, Imperator or Nantes. Danvers carrots are the shorter, triangular shaped carrot that have a relatively short growing season. Danvers carrots can easily become oversized and woody in texture if left too long in the garden.
Imperator carrots have long, tapered roots. They grow the full season without much change in texture or flavour. Imperators are best known for their long-term storage, not their flavour, which tends to be bland.
Nantes carrots are my favourite (โYa Yaโ, โBoleroโ, โScarlet Nantesโ). Nantes carrot roots are medium length and cylindrical in shape with a rounded, blunt tip. The crisp, juicy, sweet flavour of a Nantes carrot is hard to beat. High water content in the Nantes carrots makes them excellent juicers but not ideal for shipping long distances.
Should I wait for a carrot to pop out of the top of the ground and visible? Or am I planting them wrong?
How long do they keep in sand?
Still eating carrots from last years harvest. Packed them in totes of damp sand. Still sweet and still have crunch
Thanks for the advice and information!
My carrots never came up but I suspect i neglected them during the hot days – so thank you so much for the cardboard tip – as i use a lot of it on my paths.
Hello…i saved seeds from a store bought carrots last year..i planted them this year but they turned out white very small stub ..funny looking..it was an expirement to see if I could grow carrots from seed from a store bought carrots..but I don't think it's a good idea.. do you think they turned out funny cuz they were a hybrid probably? Thank you
Not once did it say how long till harvest
Gosh, I just pulled up my first carrot. The top was 2' high and looks like it is almost ready to flower. Crap. It was a little white carrot hard bitter and obviously not ready. What am I doing wrong?
I should make a crop game
What's that app
How do I access the garden planner?!
thank you!
Tip: I had to sweeten up my carrot bed with some lime.
Great Video! The secret to all root vegetables is worms! They fertilize and aerate the soil ๐ I have 2 million worms that I farm for castings, but anytime I have some extra I throw them in by root vegetable bins ๐
Gr8 vid , somthing keep on digging up my carrots as they mature, it's an nightmare, they dig up the pots and beds
Hey there, lost a whole large bed of rainbow mixed Heirloom carrots.. tks for the video.
By the way, can I get yr veg plant list..
Carrots are living things! Stop the slaughter!!!
Where do I find the online grower's guide that you were showing in this video? Is it a web link included when you buy the Grow Veg book? Thanks! ๐
I think you should have your owngardeners world TV show .Great job. And Tidmarsh getting old now
I wish the government would help with this. But I'm sure whatever happens is best. That's my faith.
Thank you. This gave me a few more tips than those spoken out loud.
For example, I now know I could solve my issue of no good soil in the garden by getting a raised flower bed, and those weren't nearly as expensive as I imagined.
As a gardener who started in the late 1990s I find the level of information, technology, and sources of helpful gardening advice to be exponentially increasing. This is really cool.
How long will carrots keep in the wet sand
i like your methods https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0HqGMkjmWs