Tips and secrets to growing sweet, delicious carrots. Susan R. of Santa Rosa asks: I love carrots and have tried several times to grow my own, but with no success. Can you provide some growing tips ...

The snap of a juicy carrot fresh from your own backyard is worth the bit of extra effort required to grow these vegetables successfully. "Carrots are one of the more finicky crops to get established," ...

Carrots (Daucus carota) are popular root veggies to grow in a home garden. Not only do they tend to have more flavor compared with grocery store carrots, but they're considered relatively easy to grow ...

I love growing carrots and I love including them in our meals and snacks, plus my chickens enjoy the carrot tops. The best, crunchiest, sweetest carrots I have eaten are always homegrown, which is why ...

Q: I just wanted to drop you a line to say my wife and I enjoyed your article on millennials and gardening. It was timely because just this week, our daughter sent us a picture of her first carrot ...

The days are long, the soil has warmed. It’s time to get the carrot patch going. Here are a few tips: SOIL: Most important for growing carrots is sowing seeds in good soil. Carrots need a loose, ...

The blessing of warmer, drier weather these past few days has tempted us to get in the garden to dig. And planting a nice crop of carrots tops many a gardener’s list. Nothing can beat the sweetness ...

Diana McIntyre, from Forton, Lancashire, grew the 32cm (12ins) vegetable in only her second year of growing carrots in her garden. Ms McIntyre, who is passionate about food waste and sustainability, ...

I've read in several garden books about how carrots weren't originally orange. The first carrots cultivated were purple or yellow. Orange came much later. But how, and why? None of the books I read ...

Picking up beautiful seedlings at a garden center is always tempting, but here are a few plants you should consider growing ...

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