What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Now today we're getting specific with a root crop that I know, I love, you know, and you probably love as well. But if you've tried growing them in the past you may have had some

problems. I know I did when I first started growing these bad boys. So what am I talking about?

Well I'm talking about carrots.

Carrots. Yes, carrots.

They are some of the most delicious root vegetables in my opinion,

but a lot of gardeners have a hard time growing them. Why is it like

this? Why are they so hard to grow? Well, there are a few reasons, and what we're going to talk about are ways to plant

carrots and get more success. So carrots, they take anywhere from 10 to 14 days

to germinate and come up out of the ground.

But in that time, remember, they're living in the top 1 4th to 1 half inch of soil.

So there's not a lot of wiggle room here, you know? If you have two weeks for a seed to germinate and it's

living in one-fourth to one inch of soil, that means that that needs to be moist the

entire time, but it's such a thin amount of soil that it's very difficult to keep it moist that entire time.

And if it's not moist, then germination rates go down, and you're going to have a lot of issues.

So what I should do, or what you should do, is plant your carrots when you know that you're not going

anywhere for the next 10 to 14 days.

You're not going on a weekend trip, you're not going on a vacation, etc.

What I would do is also try to schedule it for a rainy period.

So if you know that there's going to be some rain

during that 10 to 14 days,

or at least there's a good chance of it,

then that's going to help,

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