What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast episode 2 with

Stephen Cornette. Now before we get into some juicy gardening info from

Stephen, he shared with me a tip when I went over to see his farm.

And so for any of you who have had a hard time growing carrots,

whether that be just getting them to germinate,

getting them to form up, overwintering them, whatever the case might be, he's got some good tips for you.

And one that I thought was really interesting is it's very hard to get 100% germination

with carrots unless you're really vigilant about moisture and

things like that and so if you are planning carrots let's say in a row and

there's some spotty patches what you can do is you can plant things like

parsley,

cilantro, I guess whatever you want technically,

but those two are in the same family as carrots

and those are a good substitute because you know why would you want to waste that space you would

want to grow something in that space if the carrots don't germinate so what we're

going to talk about today with Stephen who's about to come on is how do you get carrots going? What's some good techniques?

How can you get as close to as good germination rate as you can and then what about

overwintering? So I'm going to let Stephen take it away. So the first thing I would suggest is soil preparation.

For carrots and other deep penetrating root crops,

looser soil makes it easier for them to grow and expand and do their thing.

So first what you're going to want to do, so if you're doing no till, which I highly suggest everyone does,

is to first take your broad fork or your pitch fork and you

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