Vegetables · Cool
Carrot
Apiaceae
At a glance
- Plant spacing
- 5 cm
- USDA zones
- 3a–10a
- Frost-sensitive
- no
- Growth duration
- 14 weeks
Which beds suit?
- Sun (prefers)
- full sunAlso okay:partial shade
- Soil (prefers)
- sandyAlso okay:loamyraised-bed mix
- Drainage (prefers)
- very free-drainingAlso okay:normal
Seed & start
Direct sow
Sow directly into the bed — no pre-culture needed.
Stachi's tip
Carrots want deep, stone-free soil. My trick: before sowing, push a finger 20 cm down into the soil, refill the channel with sieved compost, sow into that — straight carrots guaranteed. Leek as a neighbour keeps the carrot fly at bay.
Sowing
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Harvest
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Good neighbours
Avoid these neighbours
Good pre-cultures
Stachi has no specific pre-cultures recorded.
Sources
- Kreuter, Bio-Garten
- Kosmos Gartenkalender
- LLM-Baseline-Intercrop
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-09 yieldKg
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 family-zehrer
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 sun-soil-drainage