Author and smallholder Sally Coulthard shares her tips for ensuring a bountiful supply of the garden’s most versatile ...

Homegrown carrots are a sweet, crunchy, and fresh addition to your vegetable garden.

Carrot is a hardy, cool-season vegetable. Carrots are eaten both raw and cooked and they can be stored for winter use. Types: Small/Round, Baby, Chantenay, Danvers, Nantes, Imperator, and Novelty. In ...

If you've never tasted a carrot fresh from the garden, you've missed out on a treat. Carrots are considered in a cool-weather vegetable. In Southern USDA hardiness zones, you can take advantage of ...

Q: I want to grow carrots, but my soil is dense clay. All the sources I read say carrots prefer a sandy loam. How much sand should I add to get it to be the right texture? A: This is a question we get ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PhotoAlto/Laurence Mouton / Getty Images You can fit carrots (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) almost anywhere in the garden. They ...

Carrots are a root crop, best grown from seeds. You will not find seedlings at the garden center because they do not transplant well. Carrot seeds prefer soil temperatures between 50 and 85 degrees F.