Do you overwinter carrots in your backyard garden? 0:00 Intro 0:33 Raised Bed Garden Update 3:15 Prepping Beds for Planting Carrots 4:17 Our Favorite Carrot Varieties to Grow 6:30 Tip 1: Soil Temperature 7:24 Tip 2: Planting Density 8:29 Tip 3: Soil Moisture 9:22 Planting Carrots in Raised Beds 12:14 What If You Can't Water Every Day?
I tried scattering my carrots last year and I really surprised by how well they did. I also did the same thing with my radishes with complete success. On the plus side, once they were up and flourishing there was minimal weeding to be done!!
If you water them in then place a piece of cardboard over them and water it so it's heavy and won't blow away, then you won't need to water every day. The cardboard prevents the sun from evaporating your moisture as fast. Just remember after a few days lift up the cardboard everyday to see if they germinated, if so pull off the cardboard.
I live in a semi-desert climate and I agree with you. Thoroughly water your soil and let in soak in for a day or two. Sow your seeds then cover with cardboard, old carpet or even a piece of plywood and check every day after about 10 days. Once you see germinate, remove the cover and ensure that the ground stays moist. Once the carrots get mature enough, apply mulch. Works for me.
Great timing with this video - I planted carrots today in two grow bags. I am in NC right on the Virginia border and I overwinter carrots here. Looking forward to harvest in the spring. Great video Travis!
I'm so interested in walking onions. To have onions that reproduce off themselves i find so intriguing, forever onions are what i want to spend space growing.
FINALLY got our first decent crop of carrots this year. Planted carrots a couple of weeks ago and they are looking promising. Tomorrow or the next day we plan on planting a different variety in another container. As always Thank You for another great video!
Sitting here in Knoxville, I like your show, but you can keep the pink dog bucket we (UT and Home Depot fans) love our Vol orange buckets. BYW I got a patch of orange carrots growing since spring. Finally get big.
Perfect timing. I'm planning on planting my carrot seeds real soon. Hopefully we'll get some rain in the next few days for a good start in the carrot patch.
I used to live in the Kansas City area…. I over-wintered carrots once by accident….the carrots didn’t produce well in the fall, so I just left them. Next spring they took off and produced a beautiful crop of carrots. I now live 100+ miles NorthEast of Kansas City… have tried to over-winter with zero success. I’m guessing that distance, and does get colder made the difference. We get sub zero temperatures at least a day or more each winter.
I bet you get some gigantic carrots in those raised beds. I'm actually adding 4 raised beds to my farm at the moment. You inspired me. I'm growing four 50 ft. rows of carrots at the moment for the spring. I got skunked with the damn pelleted seeds from Johnnys this year and wasted a good 100 bucks and had to replant. Went to my local farm store and just got the staple varieties unpelleted. Perfect germination. I'm done with pelleted carrot seed. My soil is kind of heavy and I think the energy it takes them to break the pellet prevents them from breaking the surface of the soil. They are simply too exhausted.
I've had good luck with overwintering carrots in a river delta area in Maritime NW Wa for decades, protected exposure. However I'm almost in Canada now and will have to see if I can manage it in raised beds cause no way you could grow carrots in the glacial cement I have now. Had to go to all raised beds. Wish me luck!
My carrots are up and doing pretty good. I only grow orange carrots. After covering lightly with fine vermiculite, I always put cardboard soaked in water on top and check every day. Once I see any germination I remove it.
I’m trying carrots for the second time this year in 10 gallon grow bags. I’m filling them half way with hay and topping with quality soil and then scattering the seeds and praying for a good harvest. We might put some in one of our raised beds but my husband works out of state M-F so grow bags and large pots are what I can manage on my own during the week 😅 so that’s what I’m going with, I’m just north of you, west of Atlanta near the AL state line..
I love grow bags for my area with all the cold rain. However a lot of work in Aug-Sept when we get no rain. Sadly all my grow bags were banned in my HOA. Cause of handles. 🙄. Got tired of the fight and just bought 40 20 gallon barrel liners. No handles. No fading. All matching. Black. UV resistant. No more complaints I hope. Why liners? Cause they don't like wood barrels, wood raised beds, terra cotta, or colored pots that fade. 😂
I'm in southern NC. Always sow carrots first of August and cover with shade cloth until they sprout. I overwinter beautiful carrots. Love tendersweet variety.
I'm in Washington state and trying to grow 🥕 carrots this winter. I have then in rectangle 22"x8"x8" containers so I can move them into the greenhouse if we get a freeze. They are about 1 to 2 inches tall at this time. 🎉
Depending on how close you are to the sound and type of soil you shouldn't need to move them into greenhouse up here. I grew them top of Seattle Hill in Snohomish AND Marysville in the delta area. sandy delta soil had better results overwintering. On top of hill soil was heavy and carrots struggled but we had food.
I had great carrots finally this past spring for the first time. Carrots have to stay moist ALL the time not just the beginning. At least here in Memphis. I used high nitrogen to get the tops really going then i left them alone except watering regularly. Large pots did better than inground. My 2 cents
If you live NORTH, and you get cold soil (NOT FROZEN) carrots can overwinter. IF Carrots freeze, it can damage them, so, anywhere the ground freezes, it's not a great thing to over winter them. Snow is fine, and light frosts, are great for sweeter carrot, but frozen? not a good plan. UMass Agri school, Michigan State, UMichigan, VT coll. and a few others all recommend pulling carrot before the ground Freezes.
Made two 1/2-gallon Mason jars of fermented Cortido using Manzano peppers on Friday. Should be ready by Wed at the earliest. Today, the tomato plant was removed.
I'm in the Niagara region of Ontario, Canada, and I've had a couple carrots overwinter 2 years ago, but the ones I tried last year turned to mush. So I imagine it depends on the weather. One tip for carrot growing is never believe the Days to Maturity on the package! Often they'll say 70 days but will take over 100, at least here!
I don't fertilize at all. I put about 3 inches of compost on top of my soil at the end of each season and then heavily mulch with leaves until spring when I remove them. One season, I grew the same kind of carrots in two different raised beds. I wanted to see if feeding my plants made any difference. So I applied an organic 3-1-5 fertilizer to one bed and nothing to the other. I didn't notice any difference between the beds. I'm guessing that if you're unsure, it doesn't hurt to apply the product recommended application for your fertilizer. It doesn't do any harm.
Respectfully suggest cutting out the short redundant intro clip. Consider shutting of the autofocus on your camera or reduce your hand gestures. Your camera autofocued at least a hundred times.
Do you overwinter carrots in your backyard garden?
0:00 Intro
0:33 Raised Bed Garden Update
3:15 Prepping Beds for Planting Carrots
4:17 Our Favorite Carrot Varieties to Grow
6:30 Tip 1: Soil Temperature
7:24 Tip 2: Planting Density
8:29 Tip 3: Soil Moisture
9:22 Planting Carrots in Raised Beds
12:14 What If You Can't Water Every Day?
I tried scattering my carrots last year and I really surprised by how well they did. I also did the same thing with my radishes with complete success. On the plus side, once they were up and flourishing there was minimal weeding to be done!!
I love carrots I'm planting tri color
ones this year. I live in South Florida planting my garden this week. I'm 75 love growing my garden each year
My spring kale made it through the summer. They weren't happy, but they never bolted, and now they are looking mighty good.
Wow! Blown away by your comments on sewing carrots, thick and not thinning them. But I'm gonna try it!
If you water them in then place a piece of cardboard over them and water it so it's heavy and won't blow away, then you won't need to water every day. The cardboard prevents the sun from evaporating your moisture as fast. Just remember after a few days lift up the cardboard everyday to see if they germinated, if so pull off the cardboard.
I live in a semi-desert climate and I agree with you. Thoroughly water your soil and let in soak in for a day or two. Sow your seeds then cover with cardboard, old carpet or even a piece of plywood and check every day after about 10 days. Once you see germinate, remove the cover and ensure that the ground stays moist. Once the carrots get mature enough, apply mulch. Works for me.
Great timing with this video - I planted carrots today in two grow bags. I am in NC right on the Virginia border and I overwinter carrots here. Looking forward to harvest in the spring. Great video Travis!
I'm right there near ya and I can always over winter them. Zone 7b.
I'm in Lumberton NC and I over winter them
I plan to plant carrots this week.
I'm so interested in walking onions. To have onions that reproduce off themselves i find so intriguing, forever onions are what i want to spend space growing.
FINALLY got our first decent crop of carrots this year. Planted carrots a couple of weeks ago and they are looking promising. Tomorrow or the next day we plan on planting a different variety in another container. As always Thank You for another great video!
Sitting here in Knoxville, I like your show, but you can keep the pink dog bucket we (UT and Home Depot fans) love our Vol orange buckets. BYW I got a patch of orange carrots growing since spring. Finally get big.
Perfect timing. I'm planning on planting my carrot seeds real soon. Hopefully we'll get some rain in the next few days for a good start in the carrot patch.
I used to live in the Kansas City area…. I over-wintered carrots once by accident….the carrots didn’t produce well in the fall, so I just left them. Next spring they took off and produced a beautiful crop of carrots. I now live 100+ miles NorthEast of Kansas City… have tried to over-winter with zero success. I’m guessing that distance, and does get colder made the difference. We get sub zero temperatures at least a day or more each winter.
Thanks for sharing Allen.
Northern AL here --- I overwinter my carrots. Only winter I had trouble was last year with the artic blast
We used a few pieces of newspaper and kept them wet and everything sprouted within 3 days!
I bet you get some gigantic carrots in those raised beds. I'm actually adding 4 raised beds to my farm at the moment. You inspired me. I'm growing four 50 ft. rows of carrots at the moment for the spring. I got skunked with the damn pelleted seeds from Johnnys this year and wasted a good 100 bucks and had to replant. Went to my local farm store and just got the staple varieties unpelleted. Perfect germination. I'm done with pelleted carrot seed. My soil is kind of heavy and I think the energy it takes them to break the pellet prevents them from breaking the surface of the soil. They are simply too exhausted.
I've had good luck with overwintering carrots in a river delta area in Maritime NW Wa for decades, protected exposure. However I'm almost in Canada now and will have to see if I can manage it in raised beds cause no way you could grow carrots in the glacial cement I have now. Had to go to all raised beds. Wish me luck!
I grow a few carrots here in Tennessee. They usually do good overwintering.
My carrots are up and doing pretty good. I only grow orange carrots. After covering lightly with fine vermiculite, I always put cardboard soaked in water on top and check every day. Once I see any germination I remove it.
Now that sounds like great advice! Thanks, I'll try that! 😊
Piedmount area NC March is our time to plant, zone 7B.
I'm going to try growing them in pots this winter. If it gets too cold I'll just bring in the garage until it warms up. NE Illinois.
I’m trying carrots for the second time this year in 10 gallon grow bags. I’m filling them half way with hay and topping with quality soil and then scattering the seeds and praying for a good harvest. We might put some in one of our raised beds but my husband works out of state M-F so grow bags and large pots are what I can manage on my own during the week 😅 so that’s what I’m going with, I’m just north of you, west of Atlanta near the AL state line..
I love grow bags for my area with all the cold rain. However a lot of work in Aug-Sept when we get no rain. Sadly all my grow bags were banned in my HOA. Cause of handles. 🙄. Got tired of the fight and just bought 40 20 gallon barrel liners. No handles. No fading. All matching. Black. UV resistant. No more complaints I hope. Why liners? Cause they don't like wood barrels, wood raised beds, terra cotta, or colored pots that fade. 😂
@@tanyabriggs8969 HOA=nazis
In North East PA. In the unheated greenhouse, they do grow with 1 hour added light in Nov-Jan. Less than 10 otherwise.
We over winter in high desert California. Morning Temps in the mid 20's most of winter and down to 20 a few times.
I'm in southern NC. Always sow carrots first of August and cover with shade cloth until they sprout. I overwinter beautiful carrots. Love tendersweet variety.
I'm in Washington state and trying to grow 🥕 carrots this winter. I have then in rectangle 22"x8"x8" containers so I can move them into the greenhouse if we get a freeze. They are about 1 to 2 inches tall at this time. 🎉
Depending on how close you are to the sound and type of soil you shouldn't need to move them into greenhouse up here. I grew them top of Seattle Hill in Snohomish AND Marysville in the delta area. sandy delta soil had better results overwintering. On top of hill soil was heavy and carrots struggled but we had food.
Next time show the purple peas from TN
I had great carrots finally this past spring for the first time. Carrots have to stay moist ALL the time not just the beginning. At least here in Memphis. I used high nitrogen to get the tops really going then i left them alone except watering regularly. Large pots did better than inground. My 2 cents
This is perfect timing for me since I am about to plant carrots. Appreciate the information.
I always cover my carrots during germination. Just to keep the soil moist seems to work pretty good.
If you live NORTH, and you get cold soil (NOT FROZEN) carrots can overwinter. IF Carrots freeze, it can damage them, so, anywhere the ground freezes, it's not a great thing to over winter them. Snow is fine, and light frosts, are great for sweeter carrot, but frozen? not a good plan.
UMass Agri school, Michigan State, UMichigan, VT coll. and a few others all recommend pulling carrot before the ground Freezes.
Go Dawgs! 🐾
I've overrun tooth carrots a few times here wisconsin
Made two 1/2-gallon Mason jars of fermented Cortido using Manzano peppers on Friday. Should be ready by Wed at the earliest. Today, the tomato plant was removed.
I'm in the Niagara region of Ontario, Canada, and I've had a couple carrots overwinter 2 years ago, but the ones I tried last year turned to mush. So I imagine it depends on the weather.
One tip for carrot growing is never believe the Days to Maturity on the package! Often they'll say 70 days but will take over 100, at least here!
Yes! Overwintered carrots take much longer than the seed packet suggests.
Im 20 mins wouth of atl and kver winter
So Tennessee titan bucket only works on intermediate day onions. I thought so.
Here in Alabama grow zone 8b still see moths every where in my area.
Just planted my three varieties of carrots last Sunday. Bolero, Black Spanish, and Hendersons tendersweet
Which seed company do you typically purchase these varieties from?
Victory seed co and Johnny's selected seeds
Sounds like I am going to need a dogs bucket
Pumpkin just set world record at Half Moon Bay weigh-off. I don't have the numbers.
The mustard greens look good . How are you stopping the bugs from eating them.
Not sure. Nothing has really tried to bother them yet.
We have 3 year old Brussels sprouts. Im not sure what we did or if thats normal but they are filling back out here in 7b.
Oops! Lost me at the Dawgs bucket...HAAA!!!!!
How often should you water them after they are a couple inches tall ? I think I may be watering them too much
You can dial it back once they germinate. Every couple days for us assuming no rainfall.
You may want to propagate those Collards for sale for being heat tolerant.
Flash is a pretty easy variety to find, and it's a hybrid so the seeds wouldn't be true to variety
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I was thinking sprouts or tissue culture. Just saying.
Hey Travis, do you do any further fertilization for your carrots after planting?
Yes. We'll start giving them some AgoThrive Fruit & Flower once they get up and going.
When you plant carrots now when do you harvest them so you overwi ter them
Usually in late January. Just depends on how cool a winter we have. They'll be faster in some years and slower in others.
That mushroom compost smell very strong of horse manure that wont go away
This bagged stuff we use doesn't really smell.
Do you have to shift your dirt for the carrots
My bucket is orange LOL
Sorry to hear that. lol
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How many eggs you getting?
Not many right now. They tend to slow down a little this time of year.
What is your fertilizer schedule for carrots?
Once they get up and going, I'll usually give them some AgroThrive Fruit & Flower every few weeks.
I don't fertilize at all. I put about 3 inches of compost on top of my soil at the end of each season and then heavily mulch with leaves until spring when I remove them. One season, I grew the same kind of carrots in two different raised beds. I wanted to see if feeding my plants made any difference. So I applied an organic 3-1-5 fertilizer to one bed and nothing to the other. I didn't notice any difference between the beds. I'm guessing that if you're unsure, it doesn't hurt to apply the product recommended application for your fertilizer. It doesn't do any harm.
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LSU is coming!
LSU defense got some holes. Big ones. lol
Have you ever let your carrots go to seed and saved the seeds? What are your thoughts on that?
I have not. From what I understand, carrots are a biennial so it takes two years for them to produce seeds.
I have not. From what I understand, carrots are a biennial. So it takes two years for them to produce seeds.
Respectfully suggest cutting out the short redundant intro clip. Consider shutting of the autofocus on your camera or reduce your hand gestures. Your camera autofocued at least a hundred times.