What's going on everyone? Kevin here from Epic Gardening.

Today we're doing a quick fire rapid answer on harvesting carrots.

A lot of people will pick their carrots too early or they'll leave them out in the garden until they get kind of woody and the reason why is they just don't actually know the day to harvest their carrots.

Many carrots are 60 to 70 day varieties. So first of all that's a good rubric. If it's within

that window it's at least somewhat close to being ready because that's when most

carrots end up being ready. A good measurement is to look at the carrot tops. When the

carrot tops are around six inches long, that's about the period of time where

they've become baby carrots underground.

So if you want to, you can then thin out all the baby carrots

when they're about four to six inches,

and that way you're not throwing away the thinings, right?

You're actually using the thinings right there you're actually using the

thinings and getting some baby carrots out of them those carrots should probably be

about three to four inches for the root now after that thinning you want to wait

another month or so and then it's typically going to be time to harvest the actual adult carrot.

You should know the actual variety you're growing so you know the expected date to maturity of that

particular variety you know some carrots are really tall the leaves are very

tall and they're mature and some carrots the leaves aren't very tall and they're still mature.

So you can't really use that anymore as a good measurement stick.

The way to do it is to kind of pull back a little bit of the soil on the top

and feel how big the actual top of the carrot root is.

If it's about an inch across, usually that's when they're ready to go.

...