There's a Carrot Vegetable for Every Kind Of Soil and Vice Versa

Carrots can grow just about anywhere there’s dirt. It’s just a matter of the correct match up. You can grow any species of the carrot vegetable successfully if you choose the right one for your type soil. Soft, deep loam soils are ideal for long, slender carrots. For clay or rocky soils, that are harder for roots to penetrate— short, blunt carrots, like the chunky Chantenay or the rotund Thumbelina grow best.

Whatever variety of carrots you choose to grow, seed starting is the preferred method of propagating. Starting carrots from seeds, not only yields plants with the lowest mortality rate once they hit the surface— but provide healthier crops of carrots at the lowest cost!  

And not just carrots. Most vegetable growing starts directly from seeds because seeds also give you the widest choice of vegetables-- and many varieties of each kind.

Starting Vegetables from Seeds Gets Them Off to a Good Start

If you have the time and space to start planting vegetable seeds indoors— do it! Or if the weather allows, and you have the proper gardening supplies— start growing seeds directly in the garden. Even though vegetable gardening has also been successful starting with seedlings, plants, and roots-- any experienced gardener will prefer seeds as the heartier way to grow. From seed packets by mail or right from your favorite gardening catalog.

The time to start sowing carrot seeds depends on the climate you live in and the variety of carrots you want to grow. To be safe, check your farmer’s almanacs charts for planting zones. But, since all carrot varieties are hardy, it’s usually alright to have them started in early spring. And, they keep well buried in the garden until fall, anyway.

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