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🌱🥕 **Unlock the Secrets to Growing BIG, Beautiful Carrots!** 🥕🌱

Discover the ultimate step-by-step guide designed for both seasoned gardeners and beginners alike! In this video, we’ll walk you through everything you need to know to successfully cultivate plump, crispy carrots right in your own backyard. From choosing the perfect soil to watering and weeding techniques, we’ve got all the tips and tricks to maximize growth and flavor. Plus, learn about common blunders to avoid and how to maintain optimal conditions for a bountiful harvest. Don't miss out on the fun – hit that play button and let's dig in! 🌿✨

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00:00all right guys welcome back to grow the earth and today we're going to be planting carrots
00:04but before we get started i want to thank kirsten my youngest daughter for actually she's been the
00:10one who's been filming me for the past few videos and i just want to thank her for helping me
00:14out
00:14today and doing these videos with me and uh you know we make it a family affair around here in
00:20almost everything we do but back to the subject at hand we're going to be planting carrots now
00:26carrots are either one of those things that you have figured out all the secrets on and you grow
00:29really well or you literally hate them because they never come up or they come so sporadically that
00:36you never get a good harvest out of them so today we're going to go through the secrets that i
00:41know
00:41that help us grow carrots well every year and those things that you're going to learn along the way as
00:49you plant carrots but i'm going to give you those things right right here in this video now the first
00:54thing we're going to start off with is probably one that most people mess up and that is whenever
01:01we're dealing with carrots you've got to have loose soil so loose soil is probably one of the things
01:09that people mess up the most simply because without loose soil the carrots can't grow straight
01:16the carrots can't grow long and it's because you're dealing with hard soil being a root crop
01:24the the carrot will take the path of least resistance like electricity like water like
01:29almost anything else on this earth it's going to take the path of least resistance and that's the way
01:35you will see whenever you pull your carrots out you ever see a carrot that is forked or if you
01:41ever
01:41seen a carrot that has done spirals or is growing down and then it kind of cuts off to the
01:46right or
01:46the left or anything like that that carrot comes and when it reaches a point to where it can't go
01:53any
01:53further it will pick the direction that it can grow in and that's what it's going to do so our
02:01first task
02:03is to loosen the soil up and we got to do it about five to six inches down
02:11and we got to make sure that we can get our get it all done nice and well because without
02:22this
02:22you're going to find short little stubby carrots that are this big around and they're not going to be
02:29they're not going to grow to their full potential without loose soil now kind of the counter reactive
02:36to that is you also need this soil to be have enough structure to it that it can support the
02:49carrots
02:50because if you get these nice green tops on there which you should if you're growing a nice big carrot
02:57and if the carrot goes to try and fall over because it can't support it because of the roots have
03:04got
03:04super super loose soil then you're going to end up with the same thing you're going to end up with
03:09in this form carrot and it's not going to grow to its full potential because the soil is way too
03:16loose
03:18so you know there's kind of a uh with most anything in life there is a balance to all of
03:24it
03:25and we just need to make sure that we find that balance of loose enough soil that our carrots can
03:31grow
03:32in and enough soil structure that when our carrots start to grow they just don't flop over and start
03:42growing all wonky all right so now that we've got our soil broken up and that's going to leave us
03:47with a nice kind of crumbly texture and like i said this should be five to six inches down because
03:53we don't want our carrots running any kind of hard compacted soil otherwise they're going to change
04:00directions and then we're going to get some funky looking carrots the next major thing that we're going
04:06to need to do is we're going to talk about fertilizer now this is a plant tone organic like
04:13all-purpose which is fine uh we are going to need nitrogen because we want our tops to get nice
04:20and
04:20green because that is the solar panel that's going to feed our root our root starts out first then it
04:26puts up the green and the green is going to make the root grow which is what a carrot is
04:30of course and so
04:32as much as the potassium and the phosphorus are important and all those little micronutrients are
04:39we do have to have a bit of nitrogen in the soil so that it can pull from that to
04:46grow our greenery on
04:47top which is going to then then feed our our carrot and make it grow well so if you've ever
04:56grown
04:56carrots and you have these puny tops and then you realize afterward that you know the carrot down
05:03below doesn't look that impressive either or you found that you've got one out of the group that grew
05:08really big luscious green and the root down below is like wonderful that was from lack of fertilization
05:14that was from the lack of the nitrogen in the soil and sometimes that is also because you had hard
05:21compacted soil so we're just going to sprinkle this stuff in now i've got uh probably two cups here
05:30i'm going to fertilize this relatively thick because this is pretty new soil so i'm going to
05:38give it more than what i normally would because i kind of don't know where this is at and it's
05:43going
05:43to give me a good base for where i want it to be now you would probably do normally half
05:49of this much
05:49but again i'm kind of over compensating from the fact of this is new soil and i have found that
05:56this newer soil is lacking a little nutrition and that's what we want to make sure we've got
06:00plenty of for these carrots now that we've got our fertilizer down on top of our soil we need to
06:06turn around and kind of mix that in now we don't have to go in and mix it in really
06:12really deep
06:12because our water and our bacteria and stuff like that that is in our soil is going to carry that
06:21down
06:23and it's going to bring it to our roots to uh help everything kind of grow
06:30so we don't need to dig it in too deep just into the top couple of inches will be fine
06:37uh we don't have to get outrageous with it you know you get to kind of take out some of
06:43your
06:43frustrations on the soil and kind of stab it and move it around and get our mix in nice and
06:50good
06:51so now that we've mixed all that fertilizer into our soil we need to go around and you know i'm
06:57just
06:57going to do this with my hand because it's available i have hands and it's just easier
07:04because of what small bed we have here but we're going to level everything out now this is an
07:11important step because if we have a bunch of hills and valleys in our carrots you'll have water pooling
07:19around certain ones and you'll have other ones that are just going to be completely dry
07:23dry and so we want our soil to be very as level as we can get it that way we
07:31don't have wet and dry
07:32spots and we don't have certain ones that are drowning and certain ones that are starving for
07:35water all right so now that we've got that all leveled out it's time to plant our carrots
07:41now this is probably the simplest way and probably one of the better tips that i can give you
07:47now i've got these carrots here of course when you buy carrots they come in like a pack of a
07:51thousand
07:51there there's so many of them it's not even funny so there are two different ways you can go about
07:58this we can go about this with regular seeds or we can go with a seed tape now if you
08:06go with regular
08:06seeds what we're going to do is we're going to sprinkle these guys on as thinned out as we we
08:12can
08:15we're just going to lay these on top of the soil
08:19and when they start growing we're going to thin them out or you can use seed tape which is going
08:25to get your spacing problem with that is is once they come up if certain ones don't come up
08:31you're kind of stuck out so when we're sprinkling our seeds in we need to sprinkle them in a row
08:38and
08:38give about about four to five inches in between each row will be fine this is another tip for you
08:43guys after you've set your your seeds down in the rows we are going to cover them with a very
08:51light
08:53you can think of this almost like a seed starting mixture we need something that's very light and we
08:59need something that is going to retain moisture
09:04so we're just going to sprinkle that over the top of our rows in a really really kind of light
09:10sprinkling we don't need anything really really heavy
09:18we don't need a whole lot of it we don't need a real thick layer of it we just need
09:23something
09:24really light to cover these seeds now typically you would just
09:32kind of sprinkle these on top and be done with it but i have found that doing this
09:40this layer of really light material
09:46helps keep them a little wetter and helps them
09:52to uh have a nice easy structure to grow through
09:59versus having to deal with the soil uh because if we have you know soil that is
10:10maybe a little bit harder maybe it is not um not quite as light an area as we'd like
10:20we're going to struggle for these to come up because probably one of the biggest things
10:26that most of your people who plant carrots miss is the fact that carrots are very very sensitive
10:35when it comes to moisture levels when you plant a carrot seed if that carrot seed dries out
10:42at all and i mean we're talking about half a day if it dries out it will not germinate
10:51that seed will end up dying and not grow a plant just simply because of half a day to a
11:00day of that
11:01seed drying out and not having moisture near it so to combat that you can go do two different ways
11:10we can either put cardboard over our planting area wood a shade cloth whatever it may be
11:19we need to block the sun and we need to keep this soil moist so these these seeds will not
11:25dry out
11:25and they will grow the carrots that we need all right so like i said i'm going to cover mine
11:32with a piece of cardboard
11:34and you should find a box that is going to be big enough and wide enough that it's going to
11:40cover your entire planting area
11:42now we are an amazon family there is probably this driver probably knows our address better than anybody
11:48in the world other than maybe us so we always have plenty of boxes but we are going to open
11:58our box up
12:00and on every box of course there is a seam where that box was glued together so we're going to
12:08rip
12:09along that seam and it'll come open really well
12:13and then we're going to look at that lay it over the top of our bed and figure out
12:18well we need to start by cutting here
12:23now if you're like me and the wind is always blowing where you're at
12:29we need to make this box fit inside of our of our planting bed as you can see this is
12:36a relatively
12:37small bed you don't need a lot of room to grow carrots you can grow these in a pot
12:43if you don't really want a whole bunch of them because all you need is loose soil
12:48a good amount of depth six to eight inches of probably maximum depth on a carrot and you need
12:55to keep it moist so i'm going to cut this and then i'll show you the results of our arts
13:02and craft
13:02project here and we'll see you back in a moment now that we've cut our cover i it's important
13:12we need to give these a nice water now don't come in here with your your high pressure sprayer or
13:20anything because all you'll do is you'll end up pushing all these carrots to whatever end of this bed
13:27is lower than the rest so we're going to give it a nice low setting
13:34and just come in here and give everything a nice wet we don't have to drown it after we water
13:40these
13:40down they got our soil nice and moist we're going to take our cover
13:48and we're going to lay that in here now i've cut this kind of tight that way it will
13:54kind of hold itself in here and since i'm using cardboard i'm going to wet that a little bit
14:05because i want that cardboard to have some weight and i want it to stay where i put it at
14:13now
14:13whichever method you use whether you use cardboard or you use wood or shade cloth or whatnot
14:22germination on these is about four to seven days you should pretty much be checking every day because
14:28you want to make sure that your moisture level is not diminished so pick it up water every day put
14:35it
14:35back down once you start seeing sprouts take this off and either save it for next time throw it away
14:44you know whatever you need to do but after we start seeing sprouts we need to remove this cover
14:50otherwise we will smother those carrots and they won't grow once they start coming up if you have
14:57done seed tape method you can skip this step once they come up we need to thin those out
15:06to where we have an inch and a half on each side of those carrots in order for them to
15:12grow not thinning
15:13them out will give you small carrots that you're not going to be happy with if you really really
15:19hate to thin out anything use seed tape they make it for carrots all day every day use that uh
15:27just
15:28don't be surprised if you don't have ones come up in certain area and you have bare spots this is
15:34the
15:34best way to keep from having bare spots but it requires a little more work so guys after you
15:40have done this if you follow this video to a tee you will get nice long carrots that you can
15:47enjoy
15:48for a long time so as always i thank you for joining me today thank my my youngest daughter for
15:55uh helping
15:55me film and i want you to pray over your family prayer view garden and have a great day