How to Plant Carrot Seeds Outdoors In A Container

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Use your finger rows using your finger nails about 1-2" apart. Go about a fingernail deep. At the beginning of one of the lines you dug, place some seeds. Don't be concerned as to exact amounts. Somewhere in the 3-6 range is fine, give or take. The goal is to grow carrots, not to have a perfect carrot garden. Yes that would be great, but you try to pick one seed at a time. Space the cluster of seeds about 1/4-1/2" apart. Once you get the rows done, spray them down with a misting bottle. Use something to mark the rows, so you know where the seeds have been planted. Cover them up with more soil and spray down again.

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i planted them last week how long will it take until i start to see the leaves break though the dirt?

:59. LOL! Mad small seeds... good vid...

better than other videos, but what is a "self watering 5 gallon bucket?

Why did they turn out like crap? Was it a problem with the container, the carrots, or what?

wow youtube is insane! click the ''transcripts'' button and have a Laugh while you read!! PS: I have just put up another video showing a similar system but also for Beets and Parsnips, it's how to get a good deep container that takes up less space while recycling older nursery pots - check it out in my channel

Germinate means to emerge from the seed and start growth. For example the carrot seeds make take 7-14 days from the time you planted it for you to see it sprout up of the soil and start the growing process until harvesting. If you get good rain then majority of the time your germination process can be cut to by 3 to 4 days.

What soil is best to use? And what do you mean by germinate ? Thanks

yea

I think the first ones were not pretty because they were just too close together. Could thin them out and plant into another container or could plant fewer of them in each container. They probably still tasted good. He got almost 5 lbs of carrots from that container but they were twisted up and he pulled all out at one time and so he got ones out that were too small and others had 2 roots and one looked like a little guy. Shred small ones for salad and cut up others and could cut strait 1's

I dont think full size carrots would grow well in pots. Maybe a half long carrot like Danvers 126 would do ok but the variety that would be best is Amsterdam forcing. They are designed to be harvested at finger size so they dont need much room. They are sold in shops and they call them baby carrots or finger carrots on the label. They call them anything except their real name because they dont want the public to know or they might lose customers. Yes they really are that anal about everything.

I planted carrots in a container this season too. They didnt end up too great but I think it was because my planter was too shallow. I made sure to plant them in really lose soil and they ended up growing perfectly straight...just not bigger then 4". Containers work fine for carrots as long as you use the right kind. 2-3" apart (2-3 in each hole) and rows 3-4 inches apart. They dont like crowding, so be careful in chosing your containers. Hope that helps you. I used danver carrots.

That set turned out like crap.

How did your container carrots turn out? I want to grow carrots, and i am getting inconsistent reports on how they turn out when planted in a container...

@Nelrockz1 I don't recall.

@AcrobatHero Nice. Glad you likes.

Started container garden this morning and got carrot seeds (and garlic to plant) after this video. Extremely helpful stuff here - especially to new gardeners!

@Dustox4 Um, hard to tell from that description.

I have bought some carrot seeds that r supposed to be easy to grow. They r carrot fly resistent and produce a vast harvest. Is that a good type of carrot.

thanks :)

@Dustox4 You growing in a container? If you have a small container, you aren't going to get many carrots. I always recommend growing greens to people.