Although requiring all summer to develop, patience is rewarded by one of the garden's sweetest fall treasures, full of natural beta-carotene. All of our varieties have been selected as top choices for the West's tough soils and for short seasons.
Carrots are notoriously slow to germinate.
The soil temperature should be 75 degrees for best results. If planted in cold spring soils, it can take up to three weeks for carrots to emerge and they run the risk of rotting in the soil in the meantime. When planting early, we always lay heavy weight floating row covers over the bed til summer arrives and daytime temperatures are in the upper 70's. Another major reason carrots seem not to germinate well is that, in fact, they often do, but die from lack of moisture just as they are preparing to emerge from the soil. Do not plant carrots in the same place for 3 years.