Carrot Patch

Last summer was my first time growing carrots so I wanted to share a little bit of what I learned about them. I had a lot of questions about them but found there was so much information online that it helped me to be confident in trying them. I learned how to thin them out but this was a vegetable that took a lot of patience because I didn’t see any huge growth right away. The first step was waiting for them germinate after several weeks and then waiting for them to get to at least 3 to 4 inches tall before the thinning could even take place. At first I didn’t think that what I was doing was going to work but with patience they began to get bigger and was rewarded with many healthy looking carrots by the end of August. The location that I chose to grow my carrots was in a 4x4 raised bed which shared a space with beets and also sugar snap peas and some valentine sunflowers. I grew a variety of carrots, which included Danver and also a rainbow blend.  I really loved the dark red and purple variety, so for this spring 2024 garden, I purchased some cosmic purple to try and also more Danver variety because they did so well.

This is the raised garden bed that I chose to grow them in.

 

 

This is after our harvest.