Author and smallholder Sally Coulthard shares her tips for ensuring a bountiful supply of the garden’s most versatile ...

Growing carrots from seed is something even beginning gardeners can do successfully. And homegrown carrots come in an assortment of fantastic colors—orange, purple, red, yellow, and white—and are much ...

How Long Does It Take Carrots To Grow? In general, carrots have a low germination rate, meaning not all of the seeds you sow will sprout. The ones that do will take two to three weeks. They mature in ...

Experienced gardeners often grow two crops of carrots, an early crop and the main crop. The early crop is grown for immediate use, while the main crop is harvested for more long term keeping and use ...

Early last spring, I wrote a column about sowing carrots, one of my favorite vegetable crops. But, have you tried growing late summer/early fall carrots? It’s easy. Spring sown carrot seeds take a bit ...

The days are long, the soil has warmed. It’s time to get the carrot patch going. Here are a few tips: Soil: Most important for growing carrots is sowing seeds in good soil. They need a loose, ...

Fielding Questions columnist Don Kinzler explains what can be done about nightcrawlers, when best to fertilize lawns with Milorganite and methods for growing carrots. Nightcrawlers have caused ...

A biennial is a plant that grows for two years before producing new fruit or seeds. Carrots are biennials, but that label refers to their seeds rather than their roots. The carrot root is typically ...

A study has evaluated the response of diverse carrot germplasm to salinity stress, identified salt-tolerant carrot germplasm that may be used by breeders, and defined appropriate screening criteria ...

Sow seeds during cool weather for a successful crop. Carrots thrive in cool weather with loose, well-drained soil, and take about 60 to 90 days to mature depending on the variety. For Southern gardens ...