Carrots are jokers

Carrots 🥕 can be the biggest jokers..

The first time you get it right is super exciting so keep trying to grow them.

Here are a couple tips for growing:

• Loose, fluffy, deep soil without rocks

• Full sun: 6-8 hours

• Fence protection

• Poke holes for even spacing or

• Make carrot paper tape https://www.instagram.com/reel/CouzNlaPR4b/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

• Water before seeding

• Press seeds into soil

• Cover with cardboard after seeding

• Check every day for sprouts

• Thin to at least one inch apart and use baby carrots for cooking

• Feed tops to #swallowtailbutterflies

• Keep soil moist while growing

And here are a few videos I made about carrots:

Sowing https://youtu.be/wHODUR6WU0Y

Harvest https://youtu.be/2IKwAAjuZjE

I had the most success with germjnation when I learned thus method from Roots and Refuge Farm ! I used pieces from old wooden snowfencing. https://youtu.be/gpXvQVSS1Hg

#learnandgrow #trynewthings