Carrots and After the Radishes will Store carrots radish carrots have be ready to and radishes should be sprouted and harvest in as you plan to grown in are about 1” little as one use within a the pot tall, thin them month after week or so they are out (pull some planting. by sealing planted in of the sprouts To harvest them in or directly out). Use your radishes, use plastic bags in the hand or a spade to to retain ground. tweezers to loosen the soil moisture Do not pull them out around the and putting plant in so they are radish. Then, them in the small pots about ½" grasp the refrigerator. and apart. When green leaves at transplant. they are a few their base and Choose a more inches tug them large taller, thin gently with a container them out to 1" twisting with at apart. These motion so the least a 12” carrots are leaves don't diameter delicious baby break off in and 12" carrots. If you your hand. deep or do not thin Carrots are plant them out, they ready for directly in will be too harvest two to the ground crowded and three months in loose soil will grow after planting. mixed with intertwined. They should be compost. about ½ inch in the diameter seeds are before pulling very small, them. Leave consider carrots in the mixing ground until radish and you're ready to carrot use them. seeds The older the together carrots get, the with sand. woodier their Sprinkle texture will be this mixture and the higher into a their natural shallow sugar content furrow. Harvest carrots Cover, as you would water and radishes lightly tamp. radishes sprout faster, as you harvest the
Carrots and radish should be grown in the pot they are planted in or directly in the ground. Do not plant in small pots and transplant. Choose a large container with at least a 12” diameter and 12" deep or plant directly in the ground in loose soil mixed with compost. the seeds are very small, consider mixing radish and carrot seeds together with sand. Sprinkle this mixture into a shallow furrow. Cover, water and lightly tamp. radishes sprout faster, as you harvest the After the carrots have sprouted and are about 1” tall, thin them out (pull some of the sprouts out). Use your hand or tweezers to pull them out so they are about ½" apart. When they are a few more inches taller, thin them out to 1" apart. These carrots are delicious baby carrots. If you do not thin them out, they will be too crowded and will grow intertwined. Radishes will be ready to harvest in as little as one month after planting. To harvest radishes, use a spade to loosen the soil around the radish. Then, grasp the green leaves at their base and tug them gently with a twisting motion so the leaves don't break off in your hand. Carrots are ready for harvest two to three months after planting. They should be about ½ inch in diameter before pulling them. Leave carrots in the ground until you're ready to use them. The older the carrots get, the woodier their texture will be and the higher their natural sugar content Harvest carrots as you would radishes Store carrots and radishes you plan to use within a week or so by sealing them in plastic bags to retain moisture and putting them in the refrigerator.
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