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Planting Carrots

How deep do you plant carrot seeds?


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Carrot seeds should be planted about 1/4" deep. Cover the seeds lightly with a thin layer of soil or peat moss. Don't compress the soil, as it is easier for the seeds to sprout in loose soil.

Keep the carrot seeds and soil moist, but not soaking wet.

The carrot seeds are slow to germinate, so be patient! Depending on soil and air temperatures, it can take two or three weeks for the tiny seedlings to appear.

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Carrot seeds, as well as beet seeds, are very small. Almost the same size really. I have had great results mixing both seeds with sand and spreading them on the top of the soil. Then I go back and put more sand or soil over top of them.

Make sure you allow enough garden space to separate them. When the plants are big enough to start a bulb, then replant them about 4 inches apart.

Same with onion seeds; they grow great in loose soil. If you have tight soil the bulbs will not enlarge. I use a mixture all of my own, well-composted horse manure, top soil, sand, peat moss, and a little (very little) clay. I hand sift this mixture all together equal parts of each,and fill my raised gardens with it.

I use this mixture for my whole garden which is now entirely a raised bed garden. Took me 10 years to convince my husband to make a raised bed and only one after he saw the first one!

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