Growing carrots...

[Foz]

Asalaamu Alaykum

So whos going to be growing carrots? I got a packet of seeds but being ill for the last week ive not planted them yet.

if you are planning on growing them are you goin gto be doing it in pots or straight into the ground?

[pomegranate]

I bought some cheap carrot & beetroot seeds of a internet supplier called moreveg. I germinated them and they look gr1748eat!!:)

[edibles]

carrots are sprouting in my garden, sowed the seeds in February

carrots are delicious, easy to grow, healthy and kids love'em.

before some one asks, no your not to late you just wont get an early crop.

mine should be harvested by July when they are most expensive in shops. I may have some trouble with heavy clay stony soil, creating forked carrots.
i'll upload pics later

[~Obsidian~]

There was already a thread on this edibles so I've merged them.

[Pashmeena]

ohhh mashaAllah lucky you!!
I sowed them last week...
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b372/Eina83/IMG_2905.jpg

[~Obsidian~]

Pashmeena...is that a bucket of sand?

[Pashmeena]

I call it Clay pot :P lol...

[edibles]

dont know how i missed this thread oh well, here is the pic, they need thinning

[~Obsidian~]

Looking good edibles :GreenThumbs:

I think mine reached that stage last year then mysteriously popped out of the ground and died :confused:

[rainbox]

I sowed mine outside in a box yesterday, the type is called paris market and they're little round ones:)

[Riz]

i sowed my carrots seeds today ( early nantes 5 ) grew them last season as well.. i did sowed them the same way by just scattering them in a bucket and watering in well..

seeds sown in the black bucket

[Nife180]

i sowed my carrots seeds today ( early nantes 5 ) grew them last season as well.. i did sowed them the same way by just scattering them in a bucket and watering in well..

seeds sown in the black bucket
Hey Riz,

Does that type grow short? What's the depth of the pot your using?

[Riz]

its a bucket ( regular) they grow long so this is the best option, if you back to the thread on pages 1 or 2 , you will see my lasts seasons grow in the bucket.

[Riz]

Hmmm

there is a thread somewhere with the pics of my last years carrot grow

[Nife180]

Found it, Hmm..The type I'm growing is Autumn King 2, the site here (http://www.thompson-morgan.com/seeds1/product/344/1.html) says that the roots are about 20-30cm, do you think I could get away with a a smaller pot around 15cm in depth? or will they go all curvy.

[Psypomp]

Oh darn.. I think I pulled out my carrot seedlings today, thinking they were weeds. I planted some seeds a week ago, but didn't expect them to turn out. The soil's really bad (it's basically clay)!

Riz.. my seed packet said to plant them pretty deep. Maybe I'll try the bucket technique.

[Riz]

^ yeah good idea.. maybe even get a bag of compost instead of using the clay soil.. even grow radish in the buckets :)

[edibles]

the slugs'n'snails are having their way with my carrots. I hope they dont end up finishing them off

[Psypomp]

Wasn't there a thread around here about eggshells? I think you can sprinkle some crushed shells around the plant to defer the slugs..

[Foz]

yeah i read something about eggshells somewhere

i sowed my seeds 2 days ago! didnt sow them in the ground but in a big pot.

[edibles]

12 survivors, non died after that on slug attack

[rainbox]

My carrots have sprouted :D

[edibles]

:)mine have gotten all proper leaves now and the slugs did me a favour because they are perfectly spaced out now:sunny:

[Riz]

carrot seeds are sprouting.. :)

[Foz]

nothing happening with mine yet! :(

[edibles]

quick update, been well over a month since germination
as of today

[rainbox]

Wow that looks great edibles!

Mine are growing as well:)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3338/3517496629_a7d7f58c5c.jpg?v=0

[edibles]

there are so many in that pic.

impressed:goodpost:

[rainbox]

The carrots look so GREEN.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3596/3533502502_347b9a40f8.jpg?v=0

[edibles]

they look quite close together, i read they need about 10cm at this stage

[rainbox]

You're probably right, I just thought I'd start picking them when they're still tiny and thin them out that way. It may fail miserably though!

[ze leetle elper]

Mine are teeny, sowed them about 2 weeks ago!!

[Riz]

hello carrot lovers...

I am growing baby carrots, small and juicy i dont like the thick ones....

i will be thinning mine out as well, when its a sunny day :)

if you don't thin them out, you will get stunted growth and they wont grow to there full potential :)

[edibles]

getting big now not long to go, 2 months i think

[Riz]

mine in a bucket. have not thinned any more out yet... nor have i given it any nutrients

[edibles]

wow, you gonna get some thin carrots.

[rainbox]

I tried pulling one of mine up today to see how they were doing :)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3368/3615930379_bab9dc2f6e.jpg?v=0

[Riz]

i pulled one out to see.. hehee

[Riz]

i am having to feed the container of carrots on a daily basis, the leaves just droop down begging for more water..

i know it looks like something that's been dragged through a bush backwards.. :)

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/IMGP1542.jpg

[~Obsidian~]

Feed feed feeed! Glad I'm not attempting to grow any of these this season, me and root vegetables do NOT go well together. TabarakAllah though Riz, your carrots are doing so well!

[Riz]

i am really impressed by my carrots growing in a bucket.. they came out really fresh, crunchy, juicy and extremely crunchy and not too big, i dont like the big carrots they can snap of your teeth :)

some came out really small, but the majority of them are a nice size

just charging my camera up and will take a pic of my final harvest.. greedy nephews and nieces came around and have taken 50% of my harvest :)

[Riz]

pic of the carrot harvest....

[~Obsidian~]

They look awesome dude :)

[Riz]

i will be germinating my carrot seeds next week in a container.. whos gonna join me !!!?

[~Obsidian~]

Carrots don't like my garden :mad:

I might join you if I can find a pre-filled pot.

[Sarah]

I'm planning on getting some carrots germinated tonight, Insha'Allah. I wanna grow them in a bucket but I haven't got any. So gonna germinate in small pots, then re-pot when I get a chance to pick up some buckets.

[Riz]

sowed my seeds today in a bucket ( made holes first) and i am using multi purpose compost,, i am germinating the early nantes variety of carrots, like i did last summer, you get so many seeds in a pack.... :GreenThumbs:

[Riz]

fill the bucket up with compost and crush any clump soil, fill up to round 3 inches from the brim of the bucket/container/pot, then water the container this will help settle the soil and push out any air pockets..

broadcast the seeds ( scatter) on the surface of the compost,at this point dont worry if you think you have broadcasted to many seeds, when they germinate you can always pull the ones out that are growing too close together,,

cover the seeds with another one inch of soil/compost and water in gently using a sprinkler.. leave in the sunniest spot in the garden/balcony and just wait for germination :cheerleader:

[felicity]

I sowed carrot seeds I think it's been a while but they haven't grown.

[Riz]

after 10 days the carrot seeds have sprouted :)

[rubmanhayat]

I know it's late but I joined too :) I have sowed some carrots along with some radish. Will post some picture when they germinate, Inshallah.

[Riz]

the carrots are really taking off, not fed them anything apart from regular rain or tap water....


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC02345-1.jpg


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC02346.jpg

[Riz]

i got my first carrot today.. the rest still need maybe another 2 weeks.. it was tender crunchy and really sweet :)

[Riz]

i harvested all my carrots today,, the early variety.. really like them, crunchy tender and really sweet :)


http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC02740.jpg

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/sajid_012/DSC02744.jpg

[ze leetle elper]

Nice carrots!

I had carrots growing in a pot for months now, lots of greenery but when I checked a couple of months ago hardly any growth! Anyway I got frustrated and just turned the whole pot upside down on my soil at the back and left it there to compost down lol.

Today my husband was gardening and by chance just brushed across the pile of soil from the carrot pot and can you believe it there were loads of baby carrots still growing there LOL I have no idea how, the green leaves were all buried at the bottom and some were growing sideways and upside down but when we sifted throuha nd took them out, perfect shaped baby carrots like your pic above! MashaAllah @ how they can survive even when we are so evil to them!:o

[~Obsidian~]

:p

[pomegranate]

this may be a stupid question but i never found the answer to this so far:p

my question is, how do you get the seeds from carrots and beetroot?

mabe carrot flower but how beetroot? i never seen beetroot flower, so how do they get the seeds?

very confused:p

[Riz]

well you just let them grow and the flowers will show up when the flower withers away behind it will grow the next generation of seeds ... usually in mid september :)

carrot flowers on grand scale

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=carrot+flowers&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=TbI&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&biw=1024&bih=613&tbm=isch&tbnid=orb1Lv3be2nQKM:&imgrefurl=http://blog.lib.umn.edu/davi1054/secchidisk/2006/08/idaho_trip_day_2.html&docid=kE1ThSSz-n4cBM&w=700&h=526&ei=n65GTrqgBcar8APX1pSFCg&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=460&page=2&tbnh=136&tbnw=179&start=12&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:12&tx=55&ty=58

beetroot flowers
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=beetroot+flowers&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=hcI&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&biw=1024&bih=613&tbm=isch&tbnid=suEPkPX-EIJZDM:&imgrefurl=http://linearlegume.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html&docid=tPr7mABCg0vNaM&w=1071&h=1600&ei=-K5GToOREYSz8QPemqyqBg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=375&vpy=147&dur=1856&hovh=275&hovw=184&tx=94&ty=175&page=1&tbnh=151&tbnw=114&start=0&ndsp=12&ved=1t:429,r:9,s:0

[Tania]

My carrots are much smaller:
http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n551/maratania/IMAG0001-1.jpg

[Riz]

carrots like to be grown in loamy soil, ( soft and free draining) they dont like resistance like heavy clumpy soil thats why sometimes they split at the bottom, also you can use sand in with your soil 70% soil 30% sand thats a good mix, if you're growing in the ground you have to really till the soil and make it nice and loose and get rid of stones and smash away the clumpy soil and then add some sand to it, this way you will get long slender carrots..