Grow carrots in your garden

Urban gardeners can also grow crispy carrot crops

What Can You Grow in a Gardener's Best Grow Bag? As we found in our experimental gardens, almost anything!

What do you need on the day of planting

Carrot Seeds: We recommend a small Nandus variety. To avoid thinning, look for granulated seeds.

Grow Pack: The Gardener's Best Potato Grow Pack is best suited for the carrot crop.

Planting mix (pot soil): The potato growing bag contains 50 quartz. We recommend our container mix. Do not use ordinary garden soil as it will not come out generously when used in the grow bag.

Granular fertilizer: We recommend all application fertilizers.

Water

When we started thinking about all the vegetable crops that could benefit from the best growing conditions in a grow bag, carrots were at the top of the list. All vegetables grow well in good soil, but some crops are required. Carrots, being a root crop, do not grow well in heavy clay or rocky soils. For better appearance and sweet taste, they need roasted, well-drained, alkaline neutral, and high nitrogen-free soil. Grow bags are a great option for urban gardeners, as they often have little space, but have more sunlight.

In our experiments, we planted several carrot crops in grow bags, similar to our potato grow bags. All bags were filled with pre-moistened container mixture, to which we added a mixture of all-purpose compost and container booster. A few cups of compost can be added instead of the booster mixture.

For seeds, we recommend smaller varieties such as Nantes, which have firm, sausage-shaped roots. Names are known for their crispness and excellent taste. They have a smooth exterior and are slightly shorter than traditional varieties with edges.

All carrots are frost-hardy, so don’t be afraid to plant them in advance - a month before your last frost date. Not sure the frost dates in your area? Contact your local co-op extension service. For a continuous harvest, you can plant several grow bags, each month until mid-summer.

How to Plant a Grow Pack

Select site: Select a location with high sunlight. The sun is best throughout the day, but only for 6 to 8 hours. Remember that if the rainfall is not enough, pour water regularly into the grow bag.

Prepare the planting mix: Place the potting mix in a wheelchair or pot so it can be kept at once. Moisten it well. Mix granular compost and container booster mixture according to the ratio recommended in the package. Fill the growth bag with the moistened planting mixture and store a few handles to cover the seeds.

Sow the seeds: Scatter the seeds over the soil surface so that they are about 3 "apart and cover them with about 1/4" of the planting mix. Water well. Carrots, like beets, have a hard seed coat. For good germination and strong early growth, should the seeds be constantly moist? Not wet? For the first two or three weeks. Cover the top of the grows bag with a garden cloth to retain moisture or plan for frequent watering. Once the plants are installed, pour the required amount of water deeply and check the soil moisture with your finger.

Cut the seedlings thinly: To get a good size carrot, cut the seedlings thinly at 3 "intervals. You can pull them out by hand or cut off the unwanted seedlings with scissors.

Feed regularly: Add 1/4 cup granular organic fertilizer every four to six weeks after thinning.

Our carrots were ready for harvest in about 75 days, the seed package predicted. Carrots can be harvested at once or pulled as needed. We average 3 pounds. Carrots in a bag. For the autumn carrot crop, replant some carrots in mid-summer. For good germination, the seeds should be sown under a shade net or the soil should be slightly shady, cool, and moist.