Happy Friday and welcome back to our special Friday episodes, The Beginners Starter Guides,

where we are going to be talking about one particular crop for the next several weeks and diving deep

into this to help you, especially if you are a first time gardener or a beginner or you just haven't had

success growing a particular crop. We're going to talk about the basics on how to grow it.

Today we're going to be talking all about carrots.

They're growing season, site needs, how to plant, what to do when they're growing,

how to harvest, and different types that you can grow,

especially if you're a beginner and you're just getting started.

Before we dive into today's episode, I wanted to thank today's sponsor, Garden in Minutes.

I thought this would actually be a perfect time to talk to you about their raised bed garden grids

because not only is it super easy to put together, even I can do it, but what I find to be

most helpful about the Garden in Minutes garden grid has to do with their superior water coverage.

And we're going to talk about why this matters, especially with carrots.

And why I love their garden gridids so much is because of that

even water coverage. One thing I've noticed with drip irrigation or even drip tape is that the water

tends to concentrate in one area. And while the water does eventually get to the roots, when I started

using the garden grids in one of my raised

beds, I noticed that the plants thrived. And I think it's because they got plenty of water

and it was all across the garden bed and it didn't have dry spots. This is really important,

especially when it comes to beginning with carrots making sure that that

water stays moist there's no overly dry or overly wet areas I don't have to move

around my drip tape or irrigation lines to make sure that it gets to the root zone

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