And while not too good for carrots, yet things like tomatoes can grow well, though about 4-5 months and your are out of the season in zone 6.
Thanks and glory be to God.
I particularly liked the part where I was informed that the carrot was orange in color.
They’re easier to grow than you think.
I planted a double row early last march with some ‘sale’ seeds from the year before. Promptly forgot them and never weeded them. July or so hubby was going to weed whack that row so I could plant something else and found...carrots. Lots of carrots. Like 15-20lbs of carrots!
Planted Parisian carrot which are smaller than a golf ball. It was fun....except for the cleaning which I did with a tooth brush. The taste is awesome. I cooked them with butter and a tinge of brown sugar. Or just plain butter works. Ummmmm good!
The hardest part to growing carrots is keeping animals out that eat them.
If they run into hard pan you get stubby deformed carrots.
In an area that has been gardened for a while the hard pan is about six to eight inches below the surface. If you rotate where you plant the carrots every year and deep dig that area you will end up having deep dug your entire garden in a few years resulting in a better garden with not a bunch of effort.
It’s not hard. But getting that soil light and fluffy enough is pretty important (like most root crops). Fertilizing and watering is the same as other stuff but they don’t like real dense soil. Good luck.
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Carrots are easy, youll enjoy it. Carrots were one of the first things I ever planted. I did just about everything hes saying wrong except oddly the companion planting. I didn’t know any better, it was my source that the gave me carrot, lettuce, radish, and onion. The watering wasn’t consistent, the soil was hard clay, I didnt fertilize, only 2-3 hours of direct light per day and heavy shadow the rest, didn’t thin, and I still wound up with a huge amount from little effort.
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No rocks and coarse sand in the soil. Lot’s of sand.
How you gonna deal with the gophers? M60? Land mines? Napalm?
When i was a kid I had no trouble growing carrots, onions, and radishes. Now I’m having a terrible time with them.
I live in ‘The Driftless Area’ which means the Glaciers never went through this part of SW Wisconsin.
No matter how well I amend my soil - even in raised beds - I couldn’t grow a carrot on a bet!
HOWEVER - the entire middle of our state is nothing but sandy loam and Wisconsin is 2nd only to Idaho in Potato production - and along with that comes carrot and onion production.
Win/Win! :)
And while not too good for carrots, yet things like tomatoes can grow well, though about 4-5 months and your are out of the season in zone 6.
Thanks and glory be to God.