Easy step by step guide on how to grow carrots in containers from seed to harvest. Amazon page: www.amazon.com/shop/influence... Questions? please use the comment section. #carrot
OMG I just found your channel. I am a total beginner and after having watched possibly hundreds of RU-vid videos lol I must say that your videos are a godsend - no unnecessary talk and stories, just quick, easy, step by step videos. So helpful! I can't wait to start my veggie garden. Off to binge watch more of your videos :-)
I did exactly as you did In the video and I’m proud to say I managed to grow 140 carrots in my large 100 gallon container!!! Thank you so much for your help and I can’t wait to grow more 😊
Wonderful job!👏 👏I love to hear when gardeners like you found the videos helpful and manage to grow vegetables. Thank you so much for sharing! Happy gardening😊💚
Did you use the well draining potting soil only or 2nd option with the mix with the peat moss blend? Thanks you! Trying to grow produce for the first time:)
@haileyfield7845 on this video and for most part, I use my mix. But I do use bagged potting mix from time to time with same results. Thank you for visiting!
Those are some beautiful carrots! I simply cannot bring myself to thin seedlings because I hate choosing which ones live and which ones die. So, last year, I tried making seed tape for carrots. It worked really well! I picked up some great tips from your video. Did not know carrots did not like too much nitrogen. Might be why mine didn't seem to grow as well as yours. Thanks for all these wonderful videos. I am a new fan!
I like your seed tape idea, great choice. Usually root crops such as carrots, beets, ... do better in low nitrogen and high potassium media. So glad to see your comment and thank you so much!😊
Oh my gosh I'm the same way, I rarely if ever thin seedlings because it feels so mean! I usually pot up all the extra seedlings (not carrots though) and give them to neighbours so they go to new homes and get to live out their little planty lives in peace. 😊🌱
Thanks for the idea of seed tape. I think that will work well for me to put the work into making the tape rather than putting time into thinning the seedlings later (also I could see myself forgetting).
It's funny, I can't get myself to throw out plants either. If the kitten got into them or someone forgot to water when we were gone, I did what I could to save them. ❤
I love your step by step instructions. I’ve had many poorly growing vegetables, but I never fertilize. I purchased your exact variety of carrots from Amazon. In a pot, you can’t have a variety that gets too long. Can’t wait to try this in the spring.
Love it! I too grow in containers and fabric pots as well. I’m in zone 6b, and have already harvested my first batch and my second one will be along shortly. Cheers and so glad I found your channel! I look forward to learning more.
Hi, I also live in zone 6b and would love to know the vegetables you had success with! I want to start a garden this year and I'm trying to get more info.
@@gittyheiman8288 I am growing all kinds of tomatoes, many kinds of peppers, zucchini, squash, all kinds of herbs and flowers, ginger, turmeric, I’ve got a couple avocado plants I’m growing, carrots, beets, radishes, red and green cabbage, all sorts of onions, pumpkin, broccoli, cauliflower, cucumbers, watermelon, garlic, and pumpkins. I’ve been successful at everything except this is my first year year growing cucumbers, strawberries, blackberries, watermelon, broccoli, and cauliflower. I also do winter sowing and start in water jugs and planted those out in February while it was still snowing and those are starting to bloom now. There’s a ton of gardeners on RU-vid, I follow about 3. I wish you well in your green thumb adventures 🍓
@@lilmissveg3132 Thank you so much for the reply! Didn't see it till now. I am so happy that zucchini is on that list because it's something I really want to grow. I want to grow tomatoes but I've heard they're not an easy plant and that I shouldn't grow them from seeds. I'd love to know your opinion on that. Also, can you list the RU-vid channels you follow for vegetable gardening?
Случайно наткнулась на ваше видео, мне понравилось что вы отвечайте на вопросы людей и я как раз нашла ответ почему у меня не растёт морковь 🥕, а если растёт то маленькая и чего ей не хватает. И ещё понравилось что вы показываете как она растёт по дням. Спасибо очень поучительно.
Fantastic video! Thank you for the closeups of the carrot tops. I thought I was growing grass or parsley, but I think I have been growing carrots instead! Yippy! (We had a huge storm the day I planted, and the whole square foot garden was washed out. 😅
Really great. I tried carrots in a raised bed this season. Got the the little shoots - and over time they largely vanished. I had the bed netted / protected from slugs. I feel I may have let them get too dry and perhaps the soil was too dense. Next season im doing this!
Yes, there might be something going on with the soil. One of the pros of containers is that it is much easier to control the growing condition. Thank you very much for your comment and happy gardening.
Those are beauties for sure. I grew some potatoes in plastic buckets and they tasted like the bucket, kind of weaned from plastic containers. I put a raised bed in my garden this year for carrots. You have to be patient with carrots, wolf.
С большим удовольствием смотрю Ваши видео! Есть чему поучиться ,Вы просто вдохновляете своим трудом! Никогда не думала ,что морковь можно выращивать в контейнере, Вопрос , скажите пожалуйста ,а какой состав Вашего грунта? И ещё ,а Вы в открытом грунте на грядках выращиваете?
I have my soil mix shown in video check @ 00:24 . I have couple of small raised beds but I don't garden in open fields. Thank you so much for your comment! спасибо😊
Question: How do you keep cats from digging out the soil? And how do you prevent slugs from feeding on the stems? Also, how do you prevent flies? Amazing harvest you have there, too.
By growing in containers, these problems are a a bit easier to control. For slugs, you just need to raise the containers from ground, I usually have them couple of inches clear from the ground. Cats are the easiest for me: I have a dog on duty so no cats in our yard. But I suggest to use some kind of barrier like chicken mesh specially when seedlings are small. Once they are tall enough I don't think cats would like to dig them (not sure though). And my go to for fly and bug is neem oil mix, Spinosad mix is helpful too. Hope this helps and thank you so much for your comment!
Grow bags are usually 12 in deep so you might want to try short carrot varieties (6 in). The smaller bags are not very wide and you will not get too many carrots, so I recommend at least 7 gallon bags. I hope this helps and thank you very much for your comment!
Not sure if I you have a video to answer to my questions in any of your videos, but I'm guessing you have a lot of used potting soil after each harvest. Are you using it again and just adding compost to recharge it or using fresh each time? Thanks- excellent videos.
I try to reuse my potting soil as much as possible. Once I cleaned the soil from roots, I use the old soil as "peat moss/coir +perlite" mix that I use in my videos, to make my new potting soil. So I add fresh compost (and sometimes fertilizer) to make a new soil. I have done this for years and it always works. I hope this helps and thank you very much for your comment!
Love this video! I live in zone 7a. Would I be able to start these now in August for a late fall harvest? Looking into veggies that are good to plant this time of year into the fall. Thanks 🙏
So glad you love the video😊 Yes, absolutely. Carrots are great choice to sow late summer or early fall to harvest in late fall. Happy growing and thank you for your comment!
Carrots and onions are good companion plant. If you consider planting onions and carrots, it is better to plant onion bulbs first and then scatter carrot seed around them. If you already have onion bulbs planted in your containers, then yes you can use this method to grow carrots in those containers. Thanks for visiting!
Hi! Some heat tolerant carrot varieties are Romance, Nantes, Purple Dragon. And I usually grow carrots from seeds available in store. Thank yo very much for visiting!
Hi, loved all the videos Ive watched, just wondering which of the potting mixes you use most of the time, the first one or the second one, thanks, Matt.
Hey, so I'm a little confused about thinning them out. Are you saying that when the plants get to 2 inches tall then I need to start plucking some out? Also is it okay if I re plant the ones I take out?
So when plants are couple of inches tall, yo need to thin them so they are separated enough to grow roots. And carrots usually don't like to be transplanted so if you re-plant them most probably they won't survive. Thanks for visiting!
I mainly chose these containers because they are wide to get more carrots. Generally you want your pot be 2x the length of the carrot since the roots go deeper. So for 6 in carrots a 12" deep pot will be ok. Glad you like my video and thank you very much for your comment!.
So at the beginning when you removed some of the plants that were too close, can you replant the ones you took out in another pot or are they too weak?
Hi, it is basically the cost and the convinience. The bagged potting soil is ready to use, and the mix I showed is cheaper but you need to get them individually and mix them. I mostly make my own mix but you can get the same results using potting soils. Hope this helps and thank you for your comment!
Fantastic, thank you so much . Not sure i can find the different soil mixture ..buit iwas wondering can one grow carrots during winter : what's the ideal temperature of the room / veranda ( lots of light ?/ warmth ? )
Carrots prefer cool temperature and will bolt/flower if it is too hot. If you have a mild winter with no frost, you can grow them in winter too. Ideal temperature too germinate is +60F during days. For the soil, any loose potting soil will work too, but amending with fresh compost is preferred. Hope this answers your question and thank you very much for your comment!
I have used Garden Tone (3-4-4) and Jobe's vegetable plant food (3-5-2). You may also use tomato fertilizers which usually are low in nitrogen. Thank you for visiting!
No such a thing as dumb question in gardening😉 Carrots don't prefer to be transplanted, so if you re-plant them most probably they won't survive. But you can use the thinned seedlings in your salad. Hope this helps and thanks for visiting!
It is very possible for carrots to take 100 days or so to mature. As I show in this video and my other carrot video, you can move the soil around and check the roots to see if they are well formed and about the supposed size of the planted variety. Or simply pull out one or two out and check if they are ready. Hope this helps and thank you for getting in touch!
Did you reallly leave all those to grow on all the way with so many seedlings so close?? Many were left about 1cm apart? Thinning process looked drastically short to me?
Hello! Absolutely. My plan is actually to check my plants regularly and with the first sign of pests, I try to control them depending on the pest type. but bugs are part of gardening and no matter what you do, they will show up. Thank you for your comment!
Hi👋. I am in SoCal too and usually start carrots mid January to mid March. The cooler the weather, the better for carrots. happy growing and thank you for getting in touch!
I live in the North East USA. Planted my seeds in a 10 gal grow bag 2 weeks ago, nothing happening. No green sprouts. The bag is outside on my balcony, nights are in the 40s, days in 50s-60s. I thought carrots could germinate in low temps? I bought the seeds fresh at big box store. Any idea why they're not germinating? Do they need full days of sun to germinate? Thank you!
Depending on the variety you are growing, the germination temperature (ideally 60-80F) and the time will be different. Check the required temp and the days to germinate on the seed packet, but carrots can take weeks to germinate. Thank you for visiting!
I got these at Lowe's, they might stop carrying exact color but you can find similar 18 gallon bins. Usually plastic pots or containers are marked with the plastic categories. Containers are normally marked 2 (HPDE) or 5 (PP) which both are food safe. The ones not safe are number 3 (and some say 6). FYI, 3 is PVC which is used in many gardening piping. Avoid pots marked 3 or 6, all other numbers are ok for organic gardening. Thanks for visiting!
Please let me know if this is correct: Peat Moss (1 bag - it looks like a big bag the size of a bale of straw) Vermiculite (1 bag) Garden compost (1 bag - I was thinking of using a bag of Black Kow or my own compost equivalent to a bag of Black Kow) When you say do not add to much manure are you meaning the 1 part garden compost)? How often to add the low nitrogen fertilizer? Thanks so much!!!!
Hello! You got it right but let me add few comments. The big bag of Peat moss (I believe you mean the 3 cuft ones) will give you a lot of potting soil, just keep in mind if you don't need that much, you can use just half of the bag. For the garden compost, try not to use manure for carrots; manure is very high in nitrogen. If you don't have much compost in hand and if available in your area, use Kellogg organic "Garden Soil" kellogggarden.com/products/kellogg/kellogg-garden-organics-all-natural-garden-soil/ or garden "Amend" kellogggarden.com/products/kellogg/amend-garden-soil-for-flowers-and-vegetables/ . The garden soil is a great option and one bag is perfect ratio for the one bag peat moss. Many garden centers carry them. And for the fertilizer, if it is slow release, add it when mixing the soil and every 3 weeks. If you want to use water soluble ones, try to use half of suggested dose and every 2 weeks. I hope this helps. Thank you so much for your comment and happy growing!😊🥕
@@TowardGarden wow I’m so thankful for your thorough comment and so quickly. You are very rare (being a content creator who responds to each question). Much appreciated even though I’m sure it’s not easy. So instead of peat I will use garden soil by Kelloggs or Amend. Yes that big bag of peat moss is usually way more than I need. Thanks again for your help.
@@rbthegardennannyllc4219 Glad to be of any help. Just to be clear, use the Kellogg Garden soil or Amend instead of the manure. So it is Peat moss+Vermiculite+Kellogg garden soil. Wishing you a great harvest!
Just another clarification (just want to be sure): potting soil or peat moss, vermiculite, garden soil and slow release fertilizer? What type of fertilizer do you suggest for slow release or water soluble? When should water soluble be used (if using over slow release)? I’m assuming the middle number (phosphorus) should be the highest number? Is it best to put the containers up on wood stakes of some kind? Thanks again!
Can you give an example of “low nitrogen fertilizer”? I always end up with carrots with heavy leaves but very small body.. I understand that this could be due to high nitrogen content in soil.
You are correct. Carrots prefer very average soil and rich soil with high nitrogen will result in top growth. If you want to use solid food, one of the best choices is bone meal (my choice). For organic liquid fertilizers, Dr. Earth Root Zone (0-2-2) or Bud & Bloom booster (1-2-1) are great choices. For non-organic liquid fertilizers, you can get Liquinox 0-10-10 Bloom fertilizer. Hope this helps and thank you for visiting!
Question: you stated that you thinned but it didn't look like it to me. I didn't see anything 2" apart. Would it be better to make holes and put 1-2 seeds in each?
I did thin, but sure, it might not be exact 2". Carrot seeds are tiny and I haven't tried sowing them separately, but if you think that works better, why not, I think it is worth trying. I appreciate your feedback!
You don't bury carrott seed...and yes the thinning was certainly a 1-2 inch spread...instead of leaving a impulsive passive aggressive comment fueled by jealous envy hows about acknowledging the fine turnout
Hi, how are you? I have some doubts, when I searched about the best carrots to grow in containers, I discovered the "oxheart" one, is this variety really good to grow in containers? Another doubt, I found out that there are many varieties of chantenay carrots, are all chantenay varieties good to grow in containers or only the red cored variety? and the last one is about the weather, can I grow these varieties here where I living now (north east Brazil), it's so hot here and barely rains. I'm sorry for asking so much, it's because I'm a beginner and sorry for my english, I'm still learning.
Hello and thank you for watching from Brazil 👋🇧🇷. Any short variety carrot is great for containers. Oxheart carrots are short and wider, and best for juicing. chantenay carrots are on the short side too and come in different colors, I like the beautiful orange color of the red-cored. You will know which one is best for you by trying to grow them. Maybe 2-3 small container of each. In general, to grow in containers, the depth of the soil should be 2x the length of the carrots. For example, in a 25 cm deep container, 10-12 cm long carrots are perfect. For the weather, carrrots perform best in cool weather, so I suggest to grow them when you have cooler climate. But if you want to plant now, try to grow heat tolerant varieties like Romance, Nantes, Purple Dragon. I hope this answer your questions (BTW you english is very good too👏). Happy growing and thank you so much for your comment!😊
@@TowardGarden thank you very much for the explanation, thank you for complimenting my English, I'm happy to know that my English is good😅😅😅😅. Yesterday I was still studying about carrots that I can grow here and I discovered a heat tolerant variety of round carrot and I got really excited when I discovered this one. I'm happy to know that Nantes and purple dragon are heat tolerant, I've always wanted to grow these, specially the purple one because it's very rich in antioxidants!😃😃😃😃😃
Most carrots like direct sun but you can check back of the seed packet to make sure. I live in California too and it is better to provide some shade if it gets +90F. Thank you for visiting.
Hi! For carrots I have used bone meal, Garden Tone (3-4-4) and Jobe's vegetable plant food (3-5-2). The best is to mix in the soil. Once planted, you can feed them every 2-3 weeks on top and water immediately. But the best after planting is using water soluble fertilizers- my choices are Dr. Earth Root Zone (0-2-2) or Bud & Bloom booster (1-2-1). Hope this helps and thank you so much for your comment!
Carrots prefer cool weather and if you don't have frost season, then yes, you can grow carrots in mild weather. Just note that germination might be slower. Happy growing!@@ebonybryant5681
Carrots don't prefer to be transplanted, so if you re-plant them most probably they won't survive. But you can use the thinned seedlings in your salad. Hope this helps and thanks for visiting!
If you absolutely cannot get away from starting indoors and transplanting, they will still grow, but they'll fork and make really interesting root systems instead of the 1 taproot
@Toward Garden the first time my family grew carrots we couldn't figure out why we kept getting so many "hands"! We thought maybe there were rocks in the soil or the soil was too compact 😅 it wasn't until a few years later that I read about what happens when you transplant carrots. That was a wild couple of years for carrots 😆
@@malaineeward5249 I can totally relate. Gardening is a learning process and I do learn as I grow more plants. Thank you for sharing and keep up the good work!
@Toward Garden thanks! My husband and I are hoping to move to our own acreage in the next year or so and I am so excited to try building my own garden!
I think you can keep in the ridge for at lease 3-4 weeks. You can grow them most of the year as long as it is not very hot or freezing. Thanks for visiting.
Watering is highly depending on the weather and I am hesitant to mention a general watering guideline. The most important tip is to keep the soil moist but not soggy. So don't overwater and don't let soil dry out. For carrots I usually water every other 2-3 days. If top soil is wet, skip watering. hope this helps and thank you for visiting!
When seedlings are about couple of inches tall, it is time to thin them so they have room to grow. Keep the strongest and healthiest seedlings and thin others. I hope this helps.
I buy my seeds from different places. From local garden centers to online stores, such as Pinetree garden, Baker creek, Johnny's, Renee's Garden,... Hope this helps and thank you very much for your comment!
Yes, you can. Carrots usually don't need super rich soil and miracle-gro is kind of like that. However, if you want to have a better result, mix a handful of bone meal and you carrots would thank you. Happy growing and thank you for visiting.
I make my own mix, check my video here on what I use and how to make your own ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Xdi9kwEA_X0.htmlsi=WRb-8ojn1VO7old0 . thank you for visiting!
I haven't seen any plant pot with a symbol saying they are food grade. Instead, they are marked with the plastic categories. Containers are normally marked 2 (HPDE) or 5 (PP) which both are food safe. The ones not safe are number 3 (and some say 6). FYI, 3 is PVC which is used in many gardening piping, so basically if you water your plants with that water, your plants get effected by the plastic. Do your own research and enjoy gardening😁. Thanks for visiting!
Another video I had seen left their carrots to 90 days before harvesting and had a much bigger crop carrot where nearly twice the size of these , hope that helps.
With carrot seeds, it will be hard to separate seeds, just sprinkle as thinly as possible and you will thin the seedlings later. That would be much easier than spacing the seeds. Thanks for getting in touch!
I have used bone meal, Garden Tone (3-4-4) and Jobe's vegetable plant food (3-5-2). You may also use tomato fertilizers if it is low in nitrogen. Thank you for visiting!
