How To Save Carrot Seeds! Saving carrot seeds is easy, but it’s also time consuming. As a Biennial plant, carrots take two years to complete their life cycle. They need to go through a winter “vernalization” period to stimulate flowering and seed production. This makes carrot seed production a little more involved with a couple extra steps when compared to your other veggie crops.
In today’s video we’ll go over everything you need to know to save your own carrot seeds so that you can have unlimited carrots every year. Seeds can get expensive, and every time we save a batch, we become a little more self sufficient. 🙂
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Very timely! I have umbels drying out now from last year. Thank you, from Minnesota.
I've never let a carrot go to seed before now. How long does it take for the carrot to form seed heads? My weather got too hot for harvesting them so I left them to go to seed. That didn't happen, they all died except for 3. Now what do I do, silly question….. please advise. Thanks.
Great vid
I'm going to put the tops into my refrigerator over the winter and pray for seeds!♡thanks so much for sharing…love the info!♡
So I have 3/4 plants that went to seed from this years crop, will they be viable do you think? I will collect them and see I guess, it's a great experiment anyway it turns out. I'll know for sure then.
Wow that's awesome
Can you do saving corn seeds? I know its pretty obvious but I'm struggling to get anything past the grasshoppers.
I didn't know this. I have some first-year carrots that I let go and they are flowering. But they won't produce seed?
A couple of years I fall planted carrots here in Idaho right before the ground froze,covered lightly with peat moss and ended up with carrots by the end of June! That was fun. I was told carrots germinate better with a freeze. The potato farm I worked for always put their carrot seed in the freezer for 2 weeks before planting.
Thank you. I learned so much about carrots today. Great video your garden is beautiful. New at growing different things my biggest problem is knowing when to harvest. Getting better though. Can't beat fresh that's for sure.
Last year, I planted carrot seeds in my community garden bed. They sprouted enough to push little green leaves through the soil; but, when the hot weather hit, they all died off. This year, I planted a few more carrot seeds; but, I also planted bush beans and peas around them. The weather still got hot; but, the carrot seedlings were protected from the hot sun. I've been able to harvest carrots; but, they're not as big as the ones you have. I planted most of the seeds around the middle of May. The weather was still cool. There are still carrots to be harvested; but, I won't be able to leave them in the ground throughout the winter.
The city says we have to have everything out by the end of October. Now that I know that the city has given us a new spot to garden in, I might try that trick that you showed. I am going to try to get two beds side by side if possible. Either I can grow more stuff or not try to fit so much in such a limited space.
Thanks so much!
hello nice video
I have a huge amount of Queene Anne's Lace on my property, would that be a cross pollination issue for carrot seed saving? It's technically a wild carrot too…right?
Got mine still in ground for seeds next year
Thanks
Thank you Jeff, I was surprised how pretty the carrot bloom is, had my first seeds this year.
First time grower, great info
Thanks!
The carrot life cycle is very interesting love the stages
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Good info, I tried planting my old seed and nothing came up, well you just confirm they have a shelf life. Thanks.