Carrot tape makes it so much easier to plant those tiny seeds. Follow Foods For Long Life on Facebook, Pinterest and IG |
Those Tiny Tiny Seeds!
Carrot seeds are so tiny. When I try planting an entire row of them, they almost always get washed away with the first watering. After a few bad carrot experiences, I finally gave up. But this year, I discovered carrot tape and it's working like a charm.
The tape holds the tiny seeds and you just plant a row of tape, 1/4" down, in rows a foot apart. Now I will say that they put too many seeds on the tape which makes them hard to thin, so I took a tweezer and carefully removed some of the seeds before planting. Every seed came up!
Gurney's offers 8 types of carrot tapes. |
Plant the tape 1/4" down in the soil. Water them well and thin if necessary after they sprout. |
This is Gurney's Envy Hybrid Carrot, 10" to 12" long |
Some of the seeds come in a 12"x12" seed mat but I haven't tried that one yet.
This is the seed map for Gurney's Yaya hybrid carrot. |
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