vegetable
Carrots
Direct-sow only. Keep the seedbed wet until germination. Loose soil, or you get forks.
- Sun
- Full sun
- Spacing
- 2–3 in
- Days
- 55–75
- Zones
- 3a–10b
How to sow
Direct-sow only. Keep the surface wet for 10–14 days. Thin to 2 inches.
Harvest
After shoulders show. Flavor improves in cool soil.
Mistakes that waste a packet
- Transplanting
- Heavy clay without loosening
- Letting them sit until they split
Three packets
Nantes
BeginnerCylindrical, sweet, and honest in ordinary soil.
Danvers
Short seasonHandles heavier soil better than the long types.
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Related
Tomatoes
Start indoors. Match days-to-maturity to the weeks you actually have after last frost.
Peppers
Need more heat and a longer indoor start than tomatoes. Short-season varieties matter north of zone 7.
Lettuce
The crop that makes a first garden feel like a garden. Sow in spring and again in late summer.
The sow list
A note when it is time to sow
Seasonal, not daily. We will send what to start in your zone, and skip the rest of the year.
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