Carrot Daucus carota

How to sow carrot: Direct Seed, thin to 3cm apart when seedlings are 8cm high

Sun requirement for carrot: Plant in Full Sun

Carrot has been planted 126 times by Growstuff members.

The carrot is a root vegetable. It is usually orange in color, but some cultivars are purple, black, red, white, and yellow. The most commonly eaten part of the plant is the taproot, but the greens are sometimes eaten as well. The leaves appear first, and the taproot grows more slowly beneath the soil. Fast-growing cultivars mature within three months of sowing the seed. Slower-maturing cultivars are harvested four months after sowing.

Predictions

Annual

living and reproducing in a single year or less

Median lifespan

20 weeks

First harvest expected

18 weeks after planting

Last harvest expected

23 weeks after planting

Height

10cm

Spread

5cm

Row Spacing

5cm

Companions

Bonnie Little Bing Compact Cherry Tomato

pineapple tomato

peter pepper

rainbow carrot

Photos

Carrot crops

Open Farm photo

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Photo by Heidi Meudt via iNaturalist (Copyright Heidi Meudt)

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Photo by rnoerr via iNaturalist (Copyright rnoerr)

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Carrot plantings

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Carrot harvests

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Carrot seeds

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Sunniness

Planted from

Harvested for

Varieties

carrot Akaroa

carrot Juwarot

purple carrot

Daucus carota atrorubens

pusa asita carrot

rainbow carrot

Red Cored Chantenay

Dacus Carota sativus

white carrot

Arracacia xanthorrhiza

Crop Map

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What people are saying about carrots

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todo list

by shiny,

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Transplant carrots or not?

by FedericoMenaQuintero,

Do carrot transplant well at all when they are small? I set up some rows of carrot seeds mixed with radish seeds, but I don't know if the carrots will be amenable to transplanting once they sprout. Has anyone done this?

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First strawberry!

by neotoma,

I had the first tiny strawberry of the season today! I'm looking forward to many more.

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Garden trouble!

by oakandsage,

Something's skeletonizing my carrots and dill. It did a number on the sweet basil I planted, and is taking out the kale plants one by one. I haven't caught it in the act yet, though I've seen a couple big fat grasshoppers around; they're pretty likely culprits.

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