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How to Grow Carrot at Home?

September 14, 2020 By Miranda Jackson Leave a Comment

Originally, carrots were white, so similar to parsnips that you couldn’t distinguish between them. After carrots turned orange in the 17th century, they became one of the most consumed vegetables in the world. They are available today in many varieties, white, yellow, red … and are appreciated in raw vegetables as in more substantial dishes. Some varieties are sown for a spring harvest, others for the winter. Learn how to grow your carrots while preventing them from disease!

Technical sheet

Latin name: Daucus carotta
Type of plant: biennial plant
Sowing: March – July
Harvest: July – November
Exposure:  full sun
Soil: fresh and loose
Watering: regular the month after sowing, if it does not rain
Hardiness: Very hardy

The right conditions for growing carrots

Carrots love the sun. In partial shade, they grow, but more slowly.

  • Install them in cool, humus-rich, well-drained, loose soil so that the roots grow straight.
  • Remove pebbles if necessary.
  • Sandy and light soil are perfect.
  • Provide well-decomposed manure when preparing the soil.

Crop rotation

Before

Leafy vegetables: head or Savoy cabbage, winter or spring spinach, lettuce. Green manure that does not belong to the Fabaceae family: rye, phacelia …

How to sow carrots

As the emergence is slow and irregular, it is better to sow fairly dense, even if it means thinning out later, to be sure of obtaining a good row of vegetables.

  • Choose varieties suitable for the two main sowing periods, the latter having to be kept for several months. 
  • Sow on a ground where you will have removed the weeds, deep, without stones.
  • For the culture to force, sow at the end of February underframe or in the open air, then thin out the plants to 3 cm in the rows, this spaced 15 cm apart.
  • For the summer harvest and the culture intended for conservation, sow from March in rays 25 cm apart.
  • Scatter the seeds in wide rows, close the furrows and keep cool. Do not sow in May, in order to limit attacks by the carrot fly.
  • When the plants have 4 or 5 leaves, thin out to 8 cm in the row so that in the end, only one carrot every 8-10 cm.

Carrot thinning

  • For summer crops, sow in March-April. Operate from May for a later harvest. Space the rows 30 cm apart, sow lightly and thin out the young plants in two batches, keeping the most beautiful, every 8 to 10 cm. Water, hoe and mulch in June. Bring the soil near the snares so that they do not turn green in the light.
  • Pro tip: sowing seeds is always too thick. To limit thinning, mix the seeds with radish seeds, sand, or even coffee grounds. By harvesting the radishes 3-4 weeks after sowing the carrots will gain some space.

How to water the carrot

If it is not raining, water often during the month following sowing. From April, protect the rows with an insect net. Butter lightly, hoe and weed regularly.

How to maintain your vegetables?

Water regularly in hot weather, hoe, mulch.

How to fight carrot diseases and pests

  • Keep the carrot fly away by cultivating fragrant plants next to it, but also by laying insect netting. Close the base so that flies do not pass through it.
  • The carrots forked s are due at too late of manure badly decomposed bring earlier or at a broken stage. The shape can be related to the pebbles in the ground: prefer half-long varieties.
  • The red spider devouring seedlings after emergence. Water lightly, but often; they don’t like humidity.

Harvest and store carrots

  • Count two to three months after sowing for early vegetables and five to six months for storage carrots.
  • Pull out the early carrots as and when needed from July to September.
  • Harvest those for conservation on a beautiful November day before the first frosts.
  • Let them dry on the floor, without washing them.
  • Cut the tops.
  • Store in a cellar or silo, in dry sand.
  • In regions with a mild climate, protect them to continue harvesting until December.

Good associations in my vegetable garden: carrot and leek

The carrots and leeks can be associated with vegetables without hindering their development. Jean-Yves Meignen, the journalist at Rustica and creator of the garden of the abbey of Valsaintes (04), specializes in permaculture. In his ecological garden, he associates plants that have beneficial actions with each other and draws on empirical experience. Carrots (Apiaceae, formerly called Umbelliferae) and leeks (classified as Alliaceae) are not of the same family. These plants attract insects, the carrot maggot and the leek leafminer, which damage crops. The smell of leeks is reputed to repel the carrot fly (Psila rosae) and that given off by carrots.repels the leek leafminer (Phytomyza gymnostoma).

How to grow carrots and leeks on the same bed?

  • Alternate the two cultures: a row of carrots, one of the leeks, spacing them only 10 cm apart. The ranks are thus very close together.
  • Sow the carrot in the ground in February.
  • Sow the leeks warm in February and transplant them two months later, when the carrots are already out of the ground, measuring a few centimeters.

Field beans, essential green manure

The faba bean (new spelling), or faba bean, is of the same species Vicia faba as the beans, but with smaller grains. This legume (annual plant) is used as green manure because it captures nitrogen from the air and then enriches the soil through its powerful taproots. It is best grown in a mild climate because it is freezing.

  • In October-November, prepare the soil and sow the faba bean.
  • Leave between each row of faba bean a space to sow the carrots in February.
  • In April, tear off the beans (they are at the start of flowering). Plant debris, left on the surface, will decompose and provide benefits to the earth.
  • Transplant the leeks in April instead of the faba beans.
  • Provide a watering system for each plant.

Good plant cover

  • In June, the bean debris completely decomposed and became part of the soil. Add between the rows a little mulch from the grass cuts of the alleys. This will keep the soil cool during the summer period.
  • Mulch gradually with plant residues. This cover will protect the soil from evaporation and weeding will no longer be necessary.

The harvest period

  • As they develop, the leaves of carrots and leeks intermingle. But vegetables don’t mind each other: carrots produce beautiful roots, and leeks grow vertically.
  • Thin carrots in summer: harvest young early carrots. They will thus leave room for others to grow.
  • Harvest the two vegetables in the fall. Be careful, some varieties are harvested before the frost.

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About Miranda Jackson

I am a chemistry researcher and research various household products to make life easier and enjoyable for people around the world.

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