![]() ![]() Consult on-line seed sources or local garden centers and seed suppliers for availability. Carrots come in a variety of root types, uses, shapes, and colors. ![]() There are many good carrot varieties for sale in local gardening outlets and through seed catalogs. Harvest carrots when the leaves reach full size. Control insect and diseases throughout the year. Irrigation should be frequent and uniform to ensure good growth. Avoid water or fertilizer stress during growth. Carrots taste best when plants grow rapidly and mature before the heat of summer. Thin seedling carrots to 3 inches apart in the row with rows 12-18 inches apart. Incorporate plenty of organic matter and a complete fertilizer into the area before planting. I also found them at Far Northern Garden Supply in Wasilla, but I bought all the packets (Early Nelson/pellet seeds $2.09 pkg) they had.Carrots are cool season vegetables that prefer sunny locations and fertile, deep, well-drained soils. These pelleted carrot seeds are available in several varieties from Johnny's Seeds on line. Because they are easy to handle you can plant and space them so that thinning is a chore of the past, a chore I do not miss at all. They are coated seeds and about the size of a mustard seed. You did not mention pelleted carrot seeds so I am assuming you are not aware of them. I read your recent "Anchorage Gardening" article in the ADN (Saturday, April 28) and learned a few things I can use for my summer gardening experience. I love Alaskan carrots and grow a huge crop each year in my raised beds. Karen Johnson, a Valley gardener, wrote in to share some additional information about growing carrots: Saturday, May 26: Alaska Botanical Garden plant sale. If, like many home gardeners, you are attracted to the idea of growing your own salad, carrots should be on your list, right after lettuce and spinach. Remove the mulch in the spring and, if all goes well, you may have a two-to-three-week jump on the season," she said. "Cover it with clear polyethylene and a six-inch layer of leaves. Break up the "crust of frosty soil" and rake in broadcast seed. In "The Alaska Gardener's Handbook," Lenore Hedla suggests a fall planting after you've harvested your summer crop. A raised bed or mounded rows takes care of this with minimum fuss. That means you have to make sure the soil is easy for them to grow through: 8-12 inches of well-worked, clumpless, good draining soil. ![]() They'll twist around anything in their way, split or stop growing. Be safe, plant some seeds and some tape.Ĭarrots grow down and they don't like obstructions as they push underground. However, be warned, not everyone is happy with how the tape works. Yes, it can be done, but it's annoying.Īn alternative is to use seed tape. Just try dropping one seed at a time in a straight row. You have presumably figured out what your soil needs by way of added nutrients.Ĭarrots like a fertilizer with a large middle number or some bone meal, according to Margaret.Ĭarrot seeds are a hair larger than dust, a real pain to handle. Don't plant them all at once so you can harvest over time. For a variety promising "super tasty, nutritious, sweet and tender" (we'll see), Territorial Seed Company offers Sugarsnax 54.
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