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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Why You're Struggling to Grow Carrots

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Carrots. Super fun to harvest, super annoying to actually grow sometimes. Here are my top reasons you're struggling with your carrot crop.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone. Welcome back to the show. Kevin here from Epic Gardening. Today, what are we talking about? Let's go ahead and get into a crop that many people either grow perfectly without trying or try really hard and don't grow that well at all.

0:15.2

And I'm talking about carrots, one of my favorite crops to both eat, grow, and harvest.

0:20.4

It's a fantastic, fantastic, fantastic crop.

0:24.1

Today, that's what we're talking about.

0:25.7

So let's go ahead and figure out some of the mistakes

0:27.3

you might be making when you're growing carrots.

0:29.0

But before we do that, let's go ahead and read a podcast review

0:31.7

from Earn That Body.

0:34.0

She says, I love this podcast so much.

0:37.0

As a new gardener, I have so many questions.

0:39.0

There's so much education in this podcast,

0:41.0

and Kevin is the most helpful person ever.

0:43.0

Can't say enough great things about him in the work that he does.

0:45.0

Thanks Kevin.

0:46.0

From a Texan garden girl.

0:49.0

So actually we've spoken on Instagram so hello hello.

0:52.0

Thank you so much for the podcast review and let's go

0:54.4

ahead and get into this episode it's really one of the most satisfying crops

0:59.7

to grow carrots you pull them out of the ground you give them a quick rinse and boom you enjoy

1:06.0

the metrics or the overview of carrots 60 to 80 day crop in general. You can grow them almost everywhere in almost every season.

1:17.1

You can grow them spring, summer, fall, you can overwinter them if you want to.

1:20.9

They will require a decent amount of light. Full sun, part shade, and besides that they're pretty

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