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Timeline: Carrots can be planted as soon as the soil reaches 40°F, around mid-April, though they will germinate more quickly in warm soil. Days to Harvest: 55-80 days, depending on variety.

Carrots are ready for harvest when the top of their root pokes through the ground. Yellow foliage that's flopping over is ...

If you've got a garden - or balcony, or any outside space - you could reuse them to improve the quality of your soil. Instead of binning the peelings from this weekend's roast carrots, gardeners ...

Q: I want to grow carrots, but my soil is dense clay. All the sources I read say carrots prefer a sandy loam. How much sand should I add to get it to be the right texture? A: This is a question we ...

Back-yard gardeners in Oxford tend to produce small snubbed-shaped carrots, thanks to our clay soil. I’ve been surprised to see very large carrots at Greg Hamm’s stand at the Oxford Farmers ...

Brush away a bit of soil around the top of one carrot to check its shoulder, or the top of the root. Most full-sized varieties are ready to harvest when the shoulders are about 3/4 to 1 inch in ...

You can fit carrots (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) almost anywhere in the garden. They don't take up much space, and the long taproots help to break up and aerate the soil for other plants.