Grow Perfect Carrots Every Time! 🥕 

Wow - that's amazing! What a great result. :-)

Not even thinning?

I live down in south GA. WHEN IS THE BEST TIME TO PLANT MY CARROTS? I WASNT SUCESSFUL LASY YEAR.

Heather, mother nature at it's finest. She always knows when to sprout his seed. Great garden tale thanks

​@@jaquitamaynard7326Jan/Feb is a great month in deep south.

😂😊😉

My grandkids get excited with the funny animal shaped carrots. They're disappointed with the straight ones.

Absolutely - no harm is a few odd-shaped roots - it only adds to the experience! :-)

I love that idea 😁

Thanks so much, that's very kind of you to say. And very happy gardening to you too - I wish you great abundance and joy this growing season. :-)

I absolutely agree maybe it’s because he is a Brit like me…ha ha. No really Happy Garden I concur! ❤️

He is the best!!

Can you multisow carrots?

@@lunargoddess2002 Conventional gardening wisdom says no, that carrots and parsnips, both, put out too long a taproot too early in their growth and are far too resentful of having those roots disturbed, to trust that you'll get a good harvest. Conventional wisdom predicts forking and twisting which, if you're a market grower, is generally undesirable. That said, if I wanted to attempt the experiment *as* an experiment of multi-sowing carrots, I think I'd begin by sowing those little, round French market carrots, known as "Tonda di Parigi" (or "...di Parisi") in Italian, and simply as "Parisienne" in French. They're about the size of a ping pong ball or a salad radish at maturity, and being round they're not too upset by heavy soils if that's what you're dealing with. If I were not unhappy with the results and wanted to know what other carrot varieties I could multi-sow, I'd next try one of the blocky, heavy-bodied carrots like "Oxheart," which was bred to handle thick, heavy soils. (I'd try to amend the soil, too, to give my carrots the easy and adequate drainage they prefer, no matter what variety of carrot I tried to grow.) From there, I might continue to try multi-sowing carrots which were getting a little bit longer and a little bit more slender until I found the carrots which just refused to tolerate multi-sowing, but I believe the further you get from a short, round or stocky, very thick-bodied carrot (which doesn't mean *small,* it means more length proportionate to the carrot's girth or the size of its shoulders) the more likely you'll get forking and twisting and as Ben has shown, some very artistic-looking vegetables. Good success to you!

Right! Supermarket carrots have no flavour. Home grown ones tastes even better after a winter freeze.

Shop bought organic, beauties, but that’s it. Tasteless, slight perfumed, chemical smell. Grow your own from now on.

Hope you are still getting to enjoy your garden though. 😀

@@GrowVeg absolutely. I started off with one allotment last September and now have 5 x 10 rod plots! I may be tired at the end of the day but I’m having a blast 💖💖💖

Try 84 but I still garden.

I'm 72 and have found yoga has helped to keep me supple despite athritis.

Me, too. But at least we haven't been "planted" yet! God bless you.

You will love it!

DO ITTTTT!

Yes Michelle - great stuff. Get sowing!

Michelle did you plant them? I'm growing them for the first time also. Sowed on March 14th, probably will be ready the end of May. So exciting to watch them grow.

@@renel7303 yeah I planted some last month and more a week or so ago. So far so good!

feel that! altho we had somewhat of a monsun last year and our harvest was ONE (too early) tomatoe, three green bell peppers (start of october), actually quite a few cucumbers and as many potatoes as I planted - the rest rotted. I found a even bigger, extern garden for us and all my "pocket money" sinks into it! But I am confident to say that next year I will start of my seeds in a proper underground greenhouse!

Nice work - always great to expand!

I have a greenhouse too. It does make the trip to the nursery more guilt-ridden. LOL. "Oh, I should have grown some of that". In the cart it goes!

This year I’m starting for the the 1st time with 4 raised garden beds and quite a few pots around them 😂

How wonderful to have fresh carrots in January. :-) I have grown onions with carrots before, to help mask the smell of each other's pests. But I think the main advantage in doing this is that the different-shaped leave confuse the flies, making it harder for them to hone in their preferred plant.

Yes, the carrot flies aren't the best fliers - though the wind can sometimes blow them off course. Good luck with this season's crop of carrots.

What an ingenious method - I love it! A fantastic case of creative thinking, thank you.

I use irt 100 plastic mulch.

That's really useful information to share - thank you! :-)

Must be a very healthy puppy. :-)

Thanks Valorie. They are really satisfying to grow. Pulling them up to harvest is the best bit!

Ha! Yes, I was laughing at the little garden foreman making sure the job was being done properly. That's what my dog does, and then once the job is done he'll go and sit all over it for the day.

Yum!

Sometimes the simplest ways like you described are hands-down the best.

That's very bizarre! :-)

@@GrowVeg It was! They were like ghost carrots! 😄

Oh wow, that's quite an honour - thank you!

Yey!

Thanks for watching. Growing some of your own food is so empowering - and it tastes so much better!

Thanks so much. :-)

Ohh that sounds good. Can you share the recipe ?

@@toniedalton5448 Hi Tonie, don't really have a set recipe as I make by taste. Just add enough vegetable stock and orange juice to cover and simmer the carrots until tender, puree and add as much grated ginger or ground ginger as you want. Hope that helps! 😀

What a fantastic soup combination. :-)

Welcome - thanks for the sub!

Great that you find that works. I may have to re-try this myself!

Thanks Louise. Definitely give carrots another grow. 😀

It really is such an important life lesson. The best lesson in fact! Please say a warm, slightly muddy-handed hello to your four-year-old. :-)

@@GrowVeg Thank you so much Ben. Keep teaching us!

They would certainly be fun to ferment I reckon. Do try them this year - they're so satisfying to grow.

I hope this year's carrot crop do well for you - so satisfying to crunch into!

You've very welcome - thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching Christine.

That sounds totally delicious!

Hopefully when it does warm up things will be away with lightening speed. :-)

Thanks so much for watching Angela, so pleased you enjoy it. :-)

An older gent Homegrownveg shows how to germ carrots. It has not failed my last 2 yrs. Prick out on wet tissue in small takeaway lid box, voila tiny roots space n plant. His names Jim a lovely channel.

So pleased Jenn. Thanks very much for subscribing too. :-)

Sounds totally delicious! :-)

Thanks Stella. :-)

That's music to my ears - so pleased you're ready to try them. :-)

So pleased you found it helpful Jeannette. :-)

Will do - best of luck with them. :-)

And happy spring planting to you too Doug.

Cheers Robert. :-)