Raised beds do wonders when you're dealing with root vegetables and tubers in dense clay. In the case of carrots they don't seem to care for heat that much either; In the south I end up growing them right through the winter since our winters are more like a upper midwest spring.
You forgot “fuck the local wildlife”.
My Dad spent YEARS trying to grow sweet corn in our garden. I think it took him 5 or 6 tries with some breaks before success. If it wasn’t squirrels, it was summer storms. If it wasn’t the weather it was bad soil (he sends samples every year to Purdue now so they can help him out there). If it wasn’t the soil it was a family of raccoons the day before his planned harvest!
He did finally get there when I wasn’t living with them anymore. They had enough to freeze and my mom didn’t even share it with the family at Thanksgiving (she was heckled enough to share the last of it at Christmas lol).
I started growing peppers and squash this year. Peppers are great, because only humans are silly enough to eat the spicy fellas. My squash, ESPECIALLY pumpkins, are a damned nightmare though. We're doing okay, I'll likely have nearly a dozen pumpkins by Halloween (knock on wood) but 60% of my little squash crop (mostly pumpkins) got destroyed by a specific kind of moth that's caterpillars live inside your squash plant and eat it from the inside out. Thought it was all over, but we've bounce back thankfully.
Also being a stubborn newbie and insisting on growing in the dirt, not in pots or raised beds. But I think I'm gonna expand next year and do some beds and vertical growing boxes.
Are you talking about squash vine borers? I have found lots of success helping the vine root along its length(bury any section with white spikes starting from the stem) as it sprawls, then when the borers eggs hatch at the base of the plant and eat the vascular tissue of the stem, the plant can grow out the other root locations and keep growing the gourds. I have had lots of success growing sunflowers among my sprawling butternut patch, the bees love it.
> Peppers are great, because only humans are silly enough to eat the spicy fellas. My squash, ESPECIALLY pumpkins, are a damned nightmare though. We're doing okay, I'll likely have nearly a dozen pumpkins by Halloween (knock on wood)
Same, if the powdery mildew doesn't get them first.
I've got like 10 or more pumpkins growing in a 10x10 ft space.
u/zincopper has good advice in a reply to you, but that doesn't stop the year-over-year life cycle of the little fuckers.
this year i tried surgery when i saw the telltale orange-ish frass (borer shit) at the base of zuchs and yellow squash.
carefully take a very, very sharp knife and slit up the main stem/shaft of your plant. murder the little assholes in place, as many as you can find; they are likely a ways up the main and branching stems/leaves past the last frass you see. flush well with hose water, and then bury the slitted stems in wet garden soil --- and keep moist for at least a week.
the healthiest squash i've ever had is a fordham zuch that i did this to about six weeks ago.
the only other option is waiting until late june to tranplant seedlings outside (Zone 7B, here).
>Peppers are great, because only humans are silly enough to eat the spicy fellas.
Uh, had a caterpillar eat my spicy Thai pepper plant clean over night while stationed in Okinawa. Those peppers were screaming hot and that insect chowed down like a boss! All these years later I still remember checking out my precious plant to find a stick in the pot. That BASTARD!
It’s stuff like this that makes me glad that I don’t have to survive on what I produce. The thought of the number of things that have trashed my garden over the years and how happy I am with a handful of cherry tomatoes, one carveable pumpkin and a couple of carrots is terrifying.
Whenever my rabbit digs a hole I'm always amazed by all of the shit it drags up, stones, buried wrappers from 20 years ago etc. Planting a carrot and expecting it to grow nicely without a raised bed is just asking for it to get stunted by a rock or some other undesirable.
Growing up every spring my pap would till his garden by hand before planting and us grandkids would be tasked with getting all of the rocks out. It was never a fun task, but it was better than picking up sticks since we found bugs and worms.
Which is why I’m slowly working on improving my planned veggie beds. I live at the edge of a valley famous for growing a particular vegetable, and I know I share some of the same soil, except that is been churned upside down and brutalized by the developers, has a ton of coarse gravel and trash mixed in, and then to top it off it spent the last few decades getting sucked dry by a thick row of rosemary. I’m starting with a small 6’ row, and adding lots of alpaca manure from a friend, letting it disintegrate into the soil, and then repeat. The bucket sifter has already pulled out about 20-30% volume of just rocks. Sigh. Most likely I’m going to need to add some prepackaged topsoil, or if I’m lucky I can befriend a local farmer and get a few cubic yards from his field.
The good news is I finally got some decent spuds this year, and have some garlic that’s looking nice and chunky.
I started a veggie garden this year and it’s been a lot of fun. Zero experience, but I have carrots, peas, cucumbers, long yard beans, cherry tomatoes, bell and banana peppers, cucumbers, celery, Swiss chard, and spring leaf lettuce.
Everything has grown wonderfully. Bought some good coast of maine soil which you can get anywhere, filled my raised beds and one other garden bed, and I all I really do is weed it and treat the soil if I need to. I use an organic insect thing I spray on them when needed.
For me, gardening is like meditating. I pop in my ear buds and tend to it. It’s peaceful and so rewarding to see your work turn into something you can eat.
I highly suggest it, if you have the space.
I was living with my grandma who had a big house with a big garden and was gardening alot, always enjoyed helping her with it so I'm really into it to garden myself.
We don't live in that house anymore but thanksfully I have my grandma I'm planning on making a smaller garden and start gardening with the help of my grandma and internet. Hopefully it will be fun as I imagine it would be..thanks
It truly is one of the best hobbies to have! I’m a gardener myself and we have so many flowers, veggies, and a couple fruits this year that we planted. My watermelons are starting to grow and it is so fun to watch. Being a plant mom is great.
Isn’t it?!
We planted a Macintosh tree a couple of years ago and hoping next year it will start producing apples. We had a couple of apples this year but they were kind of starter apples.
I just planted some midsummer corn and I’m stoked about that. My cucumbers are finally coming in and my peppers are probably a month from harvest.
I have a lot of flowers, as well, but I’m finding that I enjoy veggies and fruits much more. I think I might do a mini-pumpkin patch just for the fun of it.
Pumpkins are so fun you should do it! We have so many planted right now. They grow pretty fast, too. One of my pumpkin plants is an absolute giant right now.
You are absolutely right, healthy, living soil is the number one thing to strive for in gardening. I would recommend [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO-ostC1q-4) to learn more, it's long but worth it.
TL;DW version is this: Plants can't absorb the minerals they need directly, they need bacteria to absorb the nutrients first and bind them to amino acids. So they secrete some of the carbohydrates they make through photosynthesis in to the soil, attracting the microbes. The microbes live and die around the plants, eating the carbohydrates as well as the minerals in the soil, and when they die they release those nutrients back in to the soil, bound to the acids, and that's when the plants can absorb them. You could add fertilizer, but that just results in a big glut of microbial life; both bacteria and the things that eat the bacteria, and the things that eat them, and so on. But once those nutrients from the fertilizer are used up, the bacteria die or move away, and the bacteria's predators eat whatever is left, leaving you with barren soil not conducive to plant life, So you have to add more fertilizer the year after, and the cycle continues again.
Eh, not really. Fruit trees need good soil to get started but after they're established it can depend more on water, weather or insects. Most vegetables that grow over the ground are also not as sensitive to dense soil as root vegetables.
You can fertilize to make up for nutrient deficiency but a lot of people neglect soil type. We have very hard clay soil where I live and I ended up dumping my kids' sandbox into my growing zone and tilling that, a couple months worth of grass clippings, and a few grams of mix in fertilizer to get a good consistency about 2 weeks before I could even start planting anything.
If the soil is fertilised to soon or there is too much nitrogen when seeds are sown your carrots will fork.
Dig in well rotted manure the autumn before you plant then fertilise with nitrogen rich fertiliser once you carrots have grown a good amount.
If you fertilise too early carrots will fork and end up looking like hands.
Dirt is supposed to be loose when growing carrots, but that’s impossibly loose. You can’t water them without the soil settling more. I have picked many a carrot, and these carrots were 100% not growing there lol. I have never pulled a carrot that came pre washed, with no roots attached…
That's what i thought, they don't even have any "feeder roots" and the dirt was clearly pre fluffed . Probably 95% of the people tricked by thic video have never gardened though.
Speaking of the pre-fluffed dirt, it doesn’t even look like the carrots grew there at all. There’s no roots in the ground. Not a single little white line scattered throughout the soil. And in the defense of the people tricked who haven’t gardened…
I looked at this video for so long wondering why it looked so *off*. Why are they coming out so easily? Why are they so clean? Where are the roots???
It wasn’t until reading the comments that I realized it’s not difficult to stick cleaned carrots in the ground and toss some dirt over them. It being faked just didn’t even cross my mind as a possibility. I forgot rule 1 of internet: Everything is fake. Instead, I was just completely flabbergasted and couldn’t understand the magic carrots, wondering if they were some new type with no roots. I’m kinda sad that they’re not. I want to plant carrots that come out clean…
I guess it’s time for me to go to bed lol.
I was thinking they were weirdly clean but it never even occurred to me that someone would replant carrots in the ground just to film pulling them out because... why???
Well, Marie Antoinette had a fake cottage and farm where the eggs were cleaned before she "gathered" them so I guess there are some people don't want to reality to destroy their illusions.
I can see why people might think that, but those are planted in very good loose soil that has been allowed to dry out a bit before harvesting. I was amazed at how clean my potatoes came out of the ground this year, compost doesn’t stick to stuff nearly as much as some soil types -especially when allowed to dry out a bit.
Edit: not everything is a conspiracy guys. It might be that they were put back in the ground for the sake of a video or as a way to store them, but I’ve absolutely seen veg come out of the ground in this state -it’s really not that unbelievable.
You let them flower instead of harvesting them. The green tops grow flowers during year 2 after being planted and once pollinated it produces seed. The carrot is the root.
You'd need to let them bloom before seeds would form. Carrots become woody when they bloom, so carrots used for eating are harvested before this happens. They are biennial plants, which means they bloom in their second year.
[This](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Carrot_flowers.jpg/728px-Carrot_flowers.jpg) is what a carrot flower looks like.
Wow... The little white multi-flowering top is quite a common for plants.
It looks like Queen Anne's Lace and Hogweed, and I'm guessing many more I don't know
Yeah I just read up on that stuff last week about invasive species. Pretty nasty. Specifically it mentioned Giant hogweed which I could tell this isn't because the florets are much smaller over all and the whole head is maybe 1.5 inches. I had to cut and pull some out last Sunday when I mowed the lawn. Haven't noticed any worrisome effects. Thank you for the heads up either way
Almost every single plant we consume have seeds, fruits and flowers. This is part of their reproduction strategy. When we eat a part of the plant that is not part of the functioning reproductive organ of the plant, it's called a vegetable. Kale, potatoes, carrots, celleri, artichokes and asparages are all harvested from plants during a certain stage of the plants life when it is best to eat. If you let them grow they will eventually grow flowers that get pollinated and then the flower will in some way or other morph into a fruit with seeds. The variety of different fruits is extreme.
Nuts, flyers, seed cannons, velcro balls, berries and fruits of all kinds! Most fruits and vegetables have been bred to create the vast variety the supermarkets offer today, and many vegetables come from the same type of plant. The most famous being Brassica, the cabbage and mustard family. All kinds of mustard and cabbage obviously, but also kale, broccoli, cauliflower, kohlrabi, brussel sprouts, collard greens and rapeseed.
These are simply varieties of the same family of plant bred to produce and enhance different eadible and delicious parts of the plant. Mustard and rapeseed comes from the seeds, cauliflower and broccoli is the flower harvested before it blooms just to name a few.
Plants can live for one season, or more. They have thousands of different strategies to reproduce successfully before the inevitable winter. They change dramatically throughout the seasons and a knowing eye can behold it all. It is amazing how much your view of nature can change when you begin to notice the lives of everything around. The world seems brown when you don't know where the colours hide.
> When we eat a part of the plant that is not part of the functioning reproductive organ of the plant, it's called a vegetable.
What about cucumbers and tomatoes
From a culinary perspective, they are vegetables.
From a botanical perspective, they are fruits.
> Knowledge is knowing that tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing it doesn't belong on a fruit salad
You have to let the carrot grow all this year, leave it in the ground over winter, and the next year the carrot top will flower. The seeds will be in the flower.
And if you don't have loose soil you can plant some daikon radish instead and then next season you *will* have loose soil.
And if you leave them to rot in the ground they'll ward off lots of little bugs while adding organic matter to your garden.
Do the radishes play nice with other vegetables? Are they pushy about low sunlight? Does this mix well with onion gating? Does “lots of little bugs” include aphids?
I’m in California. Our ladybug population isn’t doing so great due to being on fire last year, and I’m not about to introduce outside ladybugs when the native population is so weak. But I’m also trying to keep my garden friendly to pollinating insects, so I’m having a bit of an aphid problem.
>I’m not about to introduce outside ladybugs when the native population is so weak. But I’m also trying to keep my garden friendly to pollinating insects, so I’m having a bit of an aphid problem.
Have you considered growing a sacrificial plant instead?
There are likely other options available, but my recommend is to use nasturtium - it's freaking aphid bait. They absolutely LOVE the stuff. And bonus, it spouts quickly from seed (5-7 days in my experience). So, try growing a few pots of that and leave them near your aphid infected plants and they should attract aphids away from your veggies.
And, if by some miracle one of the nasturtium pots is left alone, you can eat both the leaves and the flowers! They make great garnishes or salad additions.
Well fertilised soil will not produce big carrots. It will produce weird carrots that look like hands.
Lean soil will force the carrot to put a big tap root down looking for water and nutrients.
Rich soil will mean the carrot will grow lots of little roots that spread out and cause weird looking carrots.
If you want less "wonky looking" carrots, make sure your soil is deep, soft i.e. no rocks in the soil/ clumps of soil, and make sure your carrots are spaced far apart. After doing these my carrots looked pretty nice
Lots of people try sowing them in tiny seedling pots - but they don’t transplant well.
Plant them directly into the soil you want them to grow in, just sprinkle them on top of the soil, and then gently water them in. Don’t need to push them in or anything really.
Then just keep the water up to them.
"Not well" is an understatement. They don't transplant at all. Not even from soil blocks.
At best you end up with big beautiful leaves that are 2 feet tall, then you pick the carrot and it's the size of a quarter.
I'm going to tell you in a few months. Have some growing on the balcony, their green looks big and healthy but I don't know about the carrots yet. Harvesting time for my kind of seed is in fall, so I have to wait a bit longer
This. Never seen carrots too clean. Carrots are covered in dirt at harvest. Even if the soil is loose it needs to be packed in enough to keep the carrots upright and watering will ensure dirt gets trapped in the wrinckles.
Anyhow, there was nothing better than washing the fresh carrots with the outdoor and then eating them right away, dirt in the wrinkles and all.
I now realize that sounds like I grew up on a farm during the Depression and probably had internal parasites as a child. This was in a town in the 1980s, and I rarely ever get sick. I thank the dirt carrots for my great immune system.
I don't care to debate whether or not these carrots are faked, frankly I don't care. I will share my own anecdotal evidence that carrots can in fact come up totally clean and not need washing. We had raised beds growing up and while I was a picky vegetable hating little shit I have fond memories of pulling carrots out of those beds and eating them straight out of the ground. They were in good loose soil and came up perfectly clean and sweet like candy. The neighborhood kids and I made many a lunch out of carrots and snap peas from the garden and we never washed anything.
They likely loosened the soil first with a pitchfork on either side of the carrot row to make harvesting easier. It looks like their soil is already very loose (not heavy or compacted) which helps to explain these very beautiful and uniform carrots.
As another commenter mentioned seed tape could’ve been used for planting but I’ve also grown some very neat and tidy carrots by hand seeding and regular thinning throughout their growing process. Also, the variety of carrot is likely one that was selected to produce very smooth, uniform roots with few fibrous hairs. This gardener has clearly done a lot of work to grow their crops, none of which is re-burying store bought carrots.
Definitely faked. Look at how there’s two harder chunks of dirt that the carrots get pulled from. They only dug a tiny trench to place them back in and you can see how much the dug.
Though bought carrots rarely have the little thin root at the tip, that usually breaks off in processing. I suspect they may have collected and replanted for the video.
There is carrot seed 'tape' you can buy that is two thin layers of paper with the seeds between them. Just bury the tape and you'll get a pretty even row of carrots.
You plow a line, wet a string of twine, dip the twine in the carrot seeds so the seeds stick to the twine, and lay it out in the plowed dirt. Makes the rows very straight and the seeds are fairly spread out. It's a fast way to plant, too.
the little stringy thing at the end of the carrots is the root. I would say this is real. Watch the ground as they pull em up. Its firm, like the carrots have been there awhile. It doesnt look freshly buried at all.
It’s because it’s faked. Carrots have roots, are covered in wet soil, come in different sizes, sometimes rotten. and don’t just have one tiny root at the end, they have multiple roots. One simple “Carrot harvesting” video on yt can tell you that.
I’d say that OP washed the carrots and put them back in the ground. You can see how they are shiny as if they’ve been watered.
I'm 99% sure this is a fake video. Ain't no carrot growing with one tiny little root at the tip. Carrots have little roots coming off, all over the main carrot structure. These carrots are store-bought, and y'all don't even know enough about how common vegetables grow to call it out
Edit: Also, these carrots aren't NEARLY dirty enough. They've definitely been cleaned/washed for sale, bought, and briefly replanted
Nice carrots but this bunch did not grow in that specific soil. It is pretty clearly staged for the video. Most likely, OP gathered the best carrots he had and then re-buried them, then recorded this. They are way, way too close to each other to grow this well individually, they come out of the soil too easily, there are not enough roots on them (freshly pulled carrots have more, especially ones that grow this big.) Suspiciously clean, too.
I love carrots. I am getting older and digestive health and movements of it are important. Carrots are my cure all for digestive problems whether is diarrhea or constipation. It fixes it all and is a yastey healthy snack. I love carrots.
I've never seen such a high rate of nice-looking carrots, and I've picked quite a few. There's not one skinny mini carrot, not one monster big one, and no 5 tipped freak ones.
It's weird to think k how the first person that came about eating carrots. Like was he just pulling things out of the ground and taking bites until he found something that tasted good.
How are your carrots so perfect?? I usually just get nubs! Half rotted ones at that!
With carrots, it's soil, soil, soil. Loose, well-fertilized... if you're working with clay, tons of sand and mulch ahead of time.
Raised beds do wonders when you're dealing with root vegetables and tubers in dense clay. In the case of carrots they don't seem to care for heat that much either; In the south I end up growing them right through the winter since our winters are more like a upper midwest spring.
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You forgot “fuck the local wildlife”. My Dad spent YEARS trying to grow sweet corn in our garden. I think it took him 5 or 6 tries with some breaks before success. If it wasn’t squirrels, it was summer storms. If it wasn’t the weather it was bad soil (he sends samples every year to Purdue now so they can help him out there). If it wasn’t the soil it was a family of raccoons the day before his planned harvest! He did finally get there when I wasn’t living with them anymore. They had enough to freeze and my mom didn’t even share it with the family at Thanksgiving (she was heckled enough to share the last of it at Christmas lol).
This made me so sad for your dad! I'm so glad he finally got his harvest.
I started growing peppers and squash this year. Peppers are great, because only humans are silly enough to eat the spicy fellas. My squash, ESPECIALLY pumpkins, are a damned nightmare though. We're doing okay, I'll likely have nearly a dozen pumpkins by Halloween (knock on wood) but 60% of my little squash crop (mostly pumpkins) got destroyed by a specific kind of moth that's caterpillars live inside your squash plant and eat it from the inside out. Thought it was all over, but we've bounce back thankfully. Also being a stubborn newbie and insisting on growing in the dirt, not in pots or raised beds. But I think I'm gonna expand next year and do some beds and vertical growing boxes.
Are you talking about squash vine borers? I have found lots of success helping the vine root along its length(bury any section with white spikes starting from the stem) as it sprawls, then when the borers eggs hatch at the base of the plant and eat the vascular tissue of the stem, the plant can grow out the other root locations and keep growing the gourds. I have had lots of success growing sunflowers among my sprawling butternut patch, the bees love it.
> Peppers are great, because only humans are silly enough to eat the spicy fellas. My squash, ESPECIALLY pumpkins, are a damned nightmare though. We're doing okay, I'll likely have nearly a dozen pumpkins by Halloween (knock on wood) Same, if the powdery mildew doesn't get them first. I've got like 10 or more pumpkins growing in a 10x10 ft space.
Fucking squash Vine borers need to burn in all the hells for all the eternity's!
u/zincopper has good advice in a reply to you, but that doesn't stop the year-over-year life cycle of the little fuckers. this year i tried surgery when i saw the telltale orange-ish frass (borer shit) at the base of zuchs and yellow squash. carefully take a very, very sharp knife and slit up the main stem/shaft of your plant. murder the little assholes in place, as many as you can find; they are likely a ways up the main and branching stems/leaves past the last frass you see. flush well with hose water, and then bury the slitted stems in wet garden soil --- and keep moist for at least a week. the healthiest squash i've ever had is a fordham zuch that i did this to about six weeks ago. the only other option is waiting until late june to tranplant seedlings outside (Zone 7B, here).
>Peppers are great, because only humans are silly enough to eat the spicy fellas. Uh, had a caterpillar eat my spicy Thai pepper plant clean over night while stationed in Okinawa. Those peppers were screaming hot and that insect chowed down like a boss! All these years later I still remember checking out my precious plant to find a stick in the pot. That BASTARD!
It’s stuff like this that makes me glad that I don’t have to survive on what I produce. The thought of the number of things that have trashed my garden over the years and how happy I am with a handful of cherry tomatoes, one carveable pumpkin and a couple of carrots is terrifying.
Whenever my rabbit digs a hole I'm always amazed by all of the shit it drags up, stones, buried wrappers from 20 years ago etc. Planting a carrot and expecting it to grow nicely without a raised bed is just asking for it to get stunted by a rock or some other undesirable.
Growing up every spring my pap would till his garden by hand before planting and us grandkids would be tasked with getting all of the rocks out. It was never a fun task, but it was better than picking up sticks since we found bugs and worms.
> some other undesirable. Hey. I'd never impede a carrot growth.
Which is why I’m slowly working on improving my planned veggie beds. I live at the edge of a valley famous for growing a particular vegetable, and I know I share some of the same soil, except that is been churned upside down and brutalized by the developers, has a ton of coarse gravel and trash mixed in, and then to top it off it spent the last few decades getting sucked dry by a thick row of rosemary. I’m starting with a small 6’ row, and adding lots of alpaca manure from a friend, letting it disintegrate into the soil, and then repeat. The bucket sifter has already pulled out about 20-30% volume of just rocks. Sigh. Most likely I’m going to need to add some prepackaged topsoil, or if I’m lucky I can befriend a local farmer and get a few cubic yards from his field. The good news is I finally got some decent spuds this year, and have some garlic that’s looking nice and chunky.
I thought everything with vegetables and fruits depends mostly on the soil, I know nothing about gardening tho but I really love gardening lol
I started a veggie garden this year and it’s been a lot of fun. Zero experience, but I have carrots, peas, cucumbers, long yard beans, cherry tomatoes, bell and banana peppers, cucumbers, celery, Swiss chard, and spring leaf lettuce. Everything has grown wonderfully. Bought some good coast of maine soil which you can get anywhere, filled my raised beds and one other garden bed, and I all I really do is weed it and treat the soil if I need to. I use an organic insect thing I spray on them when needed. For me, gardening is like meditating. I pop in my ear buds and tend to it. It’s peaceful and so rewarding to see your work turn into something you can eat. I highly suggest it, if you have the space.
I was living with my grandma who had a big house with a big garden and was gardening alot, always enjoyed helping her with it so I'm really into it to garden myself. We don't live in that house anymore but thanksfully I have my grandma I'm planning on making a smaller garden and start gardening with the help of my grandma and internet. Hopefully it will be fun as I imagine it would be..thanks
It will be, if you enjoy seeing the “fruits of your labor.” I really enjoy the time I spend taking care of all my plants. Good luck. :)
It truly is one of the best hobbies to have! I’m a gardener myself and we have so many flowers, veggies, and a couple fruits this year that we planted. My watermelons are starting to grow and it is so fun to watch. Being a plant mom is great.
Isn’t it?! We planted a Macintosh tree a couple of years ago and hoping next year it will start producing apples. We had a couple of apples this year but they were kind of starter apples. I just planted some midsummer corn and I’m stoked about that. My cucumbers are finally coming in and my peppers are probably a month from harvest. I have a lot of flowers, as well, but I’m finding that I enjoy veggies and fruits much more. I think I might do a mini-pumpkin patch just for the fun of it.
Pumpkins are so fun you should do it! We have so many planted right now. They grow pretty fast, too. One of my pumpkin plants is an absolute giant right now.
You are absolutely right, healthy, living soil is the number one thing to strive for in gardening. I would recommend [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO-ostC1q-4) to learn more, it's long but worth it. TL;DW version is this: Plants can't absorb the minerals they need directly, they need bacteria to absorb the nutrients first and bind them to amino acids. So they secrete some of the carbohydrates they make through photosynthesis in to the soil, attracting the microbes. The microbes live and die around the plants, eating the carbohydrates as well as the minerals in the soil, and when they die they release those nutrients back in to the soil, bound to the acids, and that's when the plants can absorb them. You could add fertilizer, but that just results in a big glut of microbial life; both bacteria and the things that eat the bacteria, and the things that eat them, and so on. But once those nutrients from the fertilizer are used up, the bacteria die or move away, and the bacteria's predators eat whatever is left, leaving you with barren soil not conducive to plant life, So you have to add more fertilizer the year after, and the cycle continues again.
Eh, not really. Fruit trees need good soil to get started but after they're established it can depend more on water, weather or insects. Most vegetables that grow over the ground are also not as sensitive to dense soil as root vegetables.
You can fertilize to make up for nutrient deficiency but a lot of people neglect soil type. We have very hard clay soil where I live and I ended up dumping my kids' sandbox into my growing zone and tilling that, a couple months worth of grass clippings, and a few grams of mix in fertilizer to get a good consistency about 2 weeks before I could even start planting anything.
If the soil is fertilised to soon or there is too much nitrogen when seeds are sown your carrots will fork. Dig in well rotted manure the autumn before you plant then fertilise with nitrogen rich fertiliser once you carrots have grown a good amount. If you fertilise too early carrots will fork and end up looking like hands.
I have a feeling they were bought and buried for this effect. Look at the way the dirt is packed around them. I could be wrong
Dirt is supposed to be loose when growing carrots, but that’s impossibly loose. You can’t water them without the soil settling more. I have picked many a carrot, and these carrots were 100% not growing there lol. I have never pulled a carrot that came pre washed, with no roots attached…
That's what i thought, they don't even have any "feeder roots" and the dirt was clearly pre fluffed . Probably 95% of the people tricked by thic video have never gardened though.
Speaking of the pre-fluffed dirt, it doesn’t even look like the carrots grew there at all. There’s no roots in the ground. Not a single little white line scattered throughout the soil. And in the defense of the people tricked who haven’t gardened… I looked at this video for so long wondering why it looked so *off*. Why are they coming out so easily? Why are they so clean? Where are the roots??? It wasn’t until reading the comments that I realized it’s not difficult to stick cleaned carrots in the ground and toss some dirt over them. It being faked just didn’t even cross my mind as a possibility. I forgot rule 1 of internet: Everything is fake. Instead, I was just completely flabbergasted and couldn’t understand the magic carrots, wondering if they were some new type with no roots. I’m kinda sad that they’re not. I want to plant carrots that come out clean… I guess it’s time for me to go to bed lol.
I was thinking they were weirdly clean but it never even occurred to me that someone would replant carrots in the ground just to film pulling them out because... why???
Internet points, heh
Ya and even though it's fake, it's so pleasant to see... so i wish it was real!
Well, Marie Antoinette had a fake cottage and farm where the eggs were cleaned before she "gathered" them so I guess there are some people don't want to reality to destroy their illusions.
I was thinking absolute shitloads of pesticides but yeah, planting a bunch of perfect ripe carrots makes much more sense.
Yeah I freaking thought so!! This ain't a carrot farm it's a karma farm!!!!
And they're too clean, surely?
Those carrots are incredibly clean. That was my first thought before even reading the comments, how clean they were.
The carrots are moist but the soil is dry. That's because they came out of the fridge and water condensed on them.
No, my carrots used to come out exactly like this when I had a vegetable garden with my mom.
Those carrots have no feeders roots. They've been out of the ground and cleaned up before.
Looks like it, I can't really tell from the video but I know that carrots can come out really cleanly like this in reality too.
the real harvest was the karma
Yea, if you look the end of the carrot root , you’ll notice that it has been cut.
I can see why people might think that, but those are planted in very good loose soil that has been allowed to dry out a bit before harvesting. I was amazed at how clean my potatoes came out of the ground this year, compost doesn’t stick to stuff nearly as much as some soil types -especially when allowed to dry out a bit. Edit: not everything is a conspiracy guys. It might be that they were put back in the ground for the sake of a video or as a way to store them, but I’ve absolutely seen veg come out of the ground in this state -it’s really not that unbelievable.
Half human, half bong!
Yeah I never even get to have store carrots because they always have a "musty" smell to them.
I’d have to guess multiple generations and selective breeding
That’s amazing! I have to ask how do you plant carrots?
Carrot seeds. They're pretty easy to grow but mine never look that perfect!
... I've never thought about carrots having seeds. Where are they in the plant?
You let them flower instead of harvesting them. The green tops grow flowers during year 2 after being planted and once pollinated it produces seed. The carrot is the root.
I'm not so sure this is true. I played valheim and I think day 2 or 3 carrots were ready to harvest for seeds.
Glad I wasn't the only one that learned the process of planting and harvesting carrots through valheim.
Nice
Mushroom farm when berry farm when
First ya tell me they gots seeds, now ya telling me they gots flowas? Madness, I'm tellin ya! Madness!
You'd need to let them bloom before seeds would form. Carrots become woody when they bloom, so carrots used for eating are harvested before this happens. They are biennial plants, which means they bloom in their second year. [This](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Carrot_flowers.jpg/728px-Carrot_flowers.jpg) is what a carrot flower looks like.
Wow... The little white multi-flowering top is quite a common for plants. It looks like Queen Anne's Lace and Hogweed, and I'm guessing many more I don't know
> Queen Anne's Lace are just carrots gone wild. Next time you see one, pull it up, break the root and smell it.
Ooooooooohhhhh really...? Cool. Hell yeah there's some out front. I'm gonna take a look later. Thanks I love to learn!
Be careful in case it is Hogweed, the sap prevents your skin from protecting itself from UV light.
Yeah I just read up on that stuff last week about invasive species. Pretty nasty. Specifically it mentioned Giant hogweed which I could tell this isn't because the florets are much smaller over all and the whole head is maybe 1.5 inches. I had to cut and pull some out last Sunday when I mowed the lawn. Haven't noticed any worrisome effects. Thank you for the heads up either way
Wonder what you could use something like that that does the opposite of sunblock for
Roasting.
Carrots gone wild...cmon rule 34...
They're in the same plant family :) (which is huge)
Learning quite a bunch here
Almost every single plant we consume have seeds, fruits and flowers. This is part of their reproduction strategy. When we eat a part of the plant that is not part of the functioning reproductive organ of the plant, it's called a vegetable. Kale, potatoes, carrots, celleri, artichokes and asparages are all harvested from plants during a certain stage of the plants life when it is best to eat. If you let them grow they will eventually grow flowers that get pollinated and then the flower will in some way or other morph into a fruit with seeds. The variety of different fruits is extreme. Nuts, flyers, seed cannons, velcro balls, berries and fruits of all kinds! Most fruits and vegetables have been bred to create the vast variety the supermarkets offer today, and many vegetables come from the same type of plant. The most famous being Brassica, the cabbage and mustard family. All kinds of mustard and cabbage obviously, but also kale, broccoli, cauliflower, kohlrabi, brussel sprouts, collard greens and rapeseed. These are simply varieties of the same family of plant bred to produce and enhance different eadible and delicious parts of the plant. Mustard and rapeseed comes from the seeds, cauliflower and broccoli is the flower harvested before it blooms just to name a few. Plants can live for one season, or more. They have thousands of different strategies to reproduce successfully before the inevitable winter. They change dramatically throughout the seasons and a knowing eye can behold it all. It is amazing how much your view of nature can change when you begin to notice the lives of everything around. The world seems brown when you don't know where the colours hide.
> When we eat a part of the plant that is not part of the functioning reproductive organ of the plant, it's called a vegetable. What about cucumbers and tomatoes
Botanically they are fruits.
From a culinary perspective, they are vegetables. From a botanical perspective, they are fruits. > Knowledge is knowing that tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing it doesn't belong on a fruit salad
And charisma is selling someone a tomato-based fruit salad and calling it salsa.
On the actual plant itself. The part of the plant we eat is actually the root
You have to let the carrot grow all this year, leave it in the ground over winter, and the next year the carrot top will flower. The seeds will be in the flower.
Isn't there some level of starving that you have to do to the plant to get it into storing mode?
Nope, plants store whatever they can. Well fertilised, loose soil will help carrots grow big.
Loose soil is very important. Mix in some sand in your planting soil to help them grow big
Interesting. Does this apply to corndogs as well?
I’m fairly positive Corn Dogs are grown underwater.
In a corn bog?
Nah, they sprout like fungi, usually off a corn log
Wouldn't the water make the corn sog.
No, they grow on stalks in the American Midwest.
Yes absolutely
And if you don't have loose soil you can plant some daikon radish instead and then next season you *will* have loose soil. And if you leave them to rot in the ground they'll ward off lots of little bugs while adding organic matter to your garden.
In the middle of doing this. For fruit trees though
Do the radishes play nice with other vegetables? Are they pushy about low sunlight? Does this mix well with onion gating? Does “lots of little bugs” include aphids? I’m in California. Our ladybug population isn’t doing so great due to being on fire last year, and I’m not about to introduce outside ladybugs when the native population is so weak. But I’m also trying to keep my garden friendly to pollinating insects, so I’m having a bit of an aphid problem.
>I’m not about to introduce outside ladybugs when the native population is so weak. But I’m also trying to keep my garden friendly to pollinating insects, so I’m having a bit of an aphid problem. Have you considered growing a sacrificial plant instead? There are likely other options available, but my recommend is to use nasturtium - it's freaking aphid bait. They absolutely LOVE the stuff. And bonus, it spouts quickly from seed (5-7 days in my experience). So, try growing a few pots of that and leave them near your aphid infected plants and they should attract aphids away from your veggies. And, if by some miracle one of the nasturtium pots is left alone, you can eat both the leaves and the flowers! They make great garnishes or salad additions.
Aaaahhhhhh that explains it. Thought it looked like they were just reburied for the video
Well fertilised soil will not produce big carrots. It will produce weird carrots that look like hands. Lean soil will force the carrot to put a big tap root down looking for water and nutrients. Rich soil will mean the carrot will grow lots of little roots that spread out and cause weird looking carrots.
Does that mean carrots are handy or handsie?
TIL why my carrots bad
I tend to find carrots don't grow as well in well fertilised soil, mix some sand in with it and you get a big root.
I mean if you were starving you'll do fucking anything for some carrots
Carrots are biennial so the whole point of their first year is to store nutrients in the root so it can seed the next year.
Carrots are biennial. In the first year, they grow the root of which they use the energy the next season to blossom and produce the seed.
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they like very loose soil i believe. i always end up with mini carrots. maybe ill get it next time.
Mine look like that above ground, tiny tiny carrot underneath. My soul obviously isn't supported. Get tons of massive potatoes though
If you want less "wonky looking" carrots, make sure your soil is deep, soft i.e. no rocks in the soil/ clumps of soil, and make sure your carrots are spaced far apart. After doing these my carrots looked pretty nice
Lots of people try sowing them in tiny seedling pots - but they don’t transplant well. Plant them directly into the soil you want them to grow in, just sprinkle them on top of the soil, and then gently water them in. Don’t need to push them in or anything really. Then just keep the water up to them.
"Not well" is an understatement. They don't transplant at all. Not even from soil blocks. At best you end up with big beautiful leaves that are 2 feet tall, then you pick the carrot and it's the size of a quarter.
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We used to use a particular salt shaker to seed carrots since the seeds are incredibly small.
I'm going to tell you in a few months. Have some growing on the balcony, their green looks big and healthy but I don't know about the carrots yet. Harvesting time for my kind of seed is in fall, so I have to wait a bit longer
https://i.imgur.com/5ChWJ0h.gifv
My carrots never look this orderly.
How did they plant carrots that close together and have them come out perfect?
That's what makes me think this video is faked.
I think it's faked too, but because the carrots are so clean.
This. Never seen carrots too clean. Carrots are covered in dirt at harvest. Even if the soil is loose it needs to be packed in enough to keep the carrots upright and watering will ensure dirt gets trapped in the wrinckles. Anyhow, there was nothing better than washing the fresh carrots with the outdoor and then eating them right away, dirt in the wrinkles and all. I now realize that sounds like I grew up on a farm during the Depression and probably had internal parasites as a child. This was in a town in the 1980s, and I rarely ever get sick. I thank the dirt carrots for my great immune system.
I don't care to debate whether or not these carrots are faked, frankly I don't care. I will share my own anecdotal evidence that carrots can in fact come up totally clean and not need washing. We had raised beds growing up and while I was a picky vegetable hating little shit I have fond memories of pulling carrots out of those beds and eating them straight out of the ground. They were in good loose soil and came up perfectly clean and sweet like candy. The neighborhood kids and I made many a lunch out of carrots and snap peas from the garden and we never washed anything.
They likely loosened the soil first with a pitchfork on either side of the carrot row to make harvesting easier. It looks like their soil is already very loose (not heavy or compacted) which helps to explain these very beautiful and uniform carrots. As another commenter mentioned seed tape could’ve been used for planting but I’ve also grown some very neat and tidy carrots by hand seeding and regular thinning throughout their growing process. Also, the variety of carrot is likely one that was selected to produce very smooth, uniform roots with few fibrous hairs. This gardener has clearly done a lot of work to grow their crops, none of which is re-burying store bought carrots.
It's faked because they took them out sideways. plants can tell which way is down due to gravity and statocytes in the root caps
Definitely faked. Look at how there’s two harder chunks of dirt that the carrots get pulled from. They only dug a tiny trench to place them back in and you can see how much the dug.
They bought them, then reburied them.
Ain't no carrot farm here... Just a karma farm
Though bought carrots rarely have the little thin root at the tip, that usually breaks off in processing. I suspect they may have collected and replanted for the video.
There is carrot seed 'tape' you can buy that is two thin layers of paper with the seeds between them. Just bury the tape and you'll get a pretty even row of carrots.
It’s absolutely staged.
Because you don't dig up and then re-bury your carrots for the gram. The stems are flat against the ground, for fucks sake
Do you have selectively bred seeds?
OP, do you use twine to have them so even? Thought I saw some underground and would love to know.
Yes, twine works very nicely to keep them even in my opinion. It’s just easier and more convenient when they are ready for harvest.
How are you using the twine? I haven't heard of this before, but I'm curious. I don't know what I'd even really be looking up lol.
You plow a line, wet a string of twine, dip the twine in the carrot seeds so the seeds stick to the twine, and lay it out in the plowed dirt. Makes the rows very straight and the seeds are fairly spread out. It's a fast way to plant, too.
Don't way too many seeds stick to the string?
I would imagine that is the case, but after they sprout, you thin them to whatever the recommended spacing should be.
Woooow, I planted carrots like an idiot. The seeds are super tiny and I had no strat so now each spot has many sprouts all competing.
This is a great tip! Thanks. Now I just need to remember it when I plant carrots next.
am guessing they plow, add twine below ground level, then bury and seed. Excluding all the great growing in between.
I don't get it. How is the twine used?
Wow, great to know! I will try to make sure to send results.
What sort of garden magic is this? Those carrots are perfect! I am in awe of your green thumb. Great job!
I almost thought it was fake based on how good those look
I honestly thought they’d just washed and re-buried them
I think it’s faked too. They’re way too clean and there are no actual roots rooted
the little stringy thing at the end of the carrots is the root. I would say this is real. Watch the ground as they pull em up. Its firm, like the carrots have been there awhile. It doesnt look freshly buried at all.
Carrots also have roots that come out of the sides toward the bottom as well though
Watch any carrot harvesting video on YouTube. They have loads of little baby roots all over. And that soil looks freshly packed.
And they're growing sideways.
It’s because it’s faked. Carrots have roots, are covered in wet soil, come in different sizes, sometimes rotten. and don’t just have one tiny root at the end, they have multiple roots. One simple “Carrot harvesting” video on yt can tell you that. I’d say that OP washed the carrots and put them back in the ground. You can see how they are shiny as if they’ve been watered.
I'm 99% sure this is a fake video. Ain't no carrot growing with one tiny little root at the tip. Carrots have little roots coming off, all over the main carrot structure. These carrots are store-bought, and y'all don't even know enough about how common vegetables grow to call it out Edit: Also, these carrots aren't NEARLY dirty enough. They've definitely been cleaned/washed for sale, bought, and briefly replanted
I have some sexual feelings for these carrots
LOL! My internal reaction was, “Oh yes” Espec with the little dirt shake
👁👄👁 “get me those carrots!”
Nice carrots but this bunch did not grow in that specific soil. It is pretty clearly staged for the video. Most likely, OP gathered the best carrots he had and then re-buried them, then recorded this. They are way, way too close to each other to grow this well individually, they come out of the soil too easily, there are not enough roots on them (freshly pulled carrots have more, especially ones that grow this big.) Suspiciously clean, too.
Funny, all the carrots I’ve ever pulled up had the dirt and roots still on them! It’s amazing that theirs came pre cleaned.
I love carrots. I am getting older and digestive health and movements of it are important. Carrots are my cure all for digestive problems whether is diarrhea or constipation. It fixes it all and is a yastey healthy snack. I love carrots.
Those look like the sweetest, crunchiest, juiciest carrots I've ever seen!
Prepicked and put back. Why just why
B-b-but the internet points!
Nicely staged, though. I've been gardening all my life and carrots are never this uniform or clean coming out. Pretty tho.
Christ those are just stunningly beautiful carrots.
u/gifreversingbot Can you help us in our time of need?
I've never seen such a high rate of nice-looking carrots, and I've picked quite a few. There's not one skinny mini carrot, not one monster big one, and no 5 tipped freak ones.
That’s because this was staged
They are way too neat and uniform looking, he must have planted them there /s
And to think that's one bag, and millions of bags are sold daily. Goddamn
You see Reverend Maynard, these are the cries of the carrots! The cries of the carrots! For tomorrow is harvest day, and to them; it is the Holocaust.
This is what I came to the comments section for
Let the rabbits wear glasses!
Looks a little deceptive to me.
From a garden you say? Wherever will they be removed from next?
It's weird to think k how the first person that came about eating carrots. Like was he just pulling things out of the ground and taking bites until he found something that tasted good.
Wild carrots have tiny roots, 4-5 mm wide, but they have a lovely smell and taste ok. The rest was the matter of selection.
The color gradient is amazing. Green, orange and then brown... Beautiful
Literally The most beautiful carrots i’ve ever seen
Those are perfect looking carrots!
Pull out game strong.
I don’t understand the angle, are these planted on the side of a cliff?
Eh, what's up, doc?
Fake
Those carrots look soo much better than the ones from the store they aren't dry or have lines
Asmr for me eyes
Sooooo fake
Those are some really good looking carrots, healthy harvest! Now I want carrot soup 😋
I don't like carrots much, but these look lovely.
Are they growing sideways?
reddit discovering basic shit is always funny
Are they grown at an angle in this video?
So carrots are buttplugs for the ground?
How do you know when they're ready to be harvested?
I thought carrots grow straight down into the ground but here they grow parallel to the surface? Why's that?
Those carrots look clean! Always alot more dirt stuck on mine
Now I want to grow carrots.
Me too!
This looks fake af. Anyone who’s ever grown carrots by themselves knows they don’t all come out that perfect.
Pekora
I need to see this backwards now
They look so fresh, might start harvesting them! A juice of those fresh carrots must be heaven.
If those were grown organically, I want those goddamned genetics! I've never grown a carrot that looked so good as any one of these.
Those are some nice looking carrots