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How to grow Carrot (Nantes 2)
Daucus carota
🥕 Vegetable
🌱 Grown each year
Sweet, cylindrical early carrots with almost no core — ideal for successional sowing and pots.
At a glance: Sow mid March to mid July, harvest from mid May.
When to sow, plant and harvest
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Sow outdoors
Harvest
Timed for a typical UK garden (last frost mid-April). The app uses your own town's frost dates.
Growing Carrot (Nantes 2): what it needs
- Light
- Full sun · 6+ hours a day
- Watering
- Water regularly in dry weather
- Soil
- Fertile, well-drained soil
- Spacing
- 5 cm
- In pots
- Grows well in containers
- Feeding
- A general feed before sowing or planting
- Harvest
- About 75 days from sowing
- Hardiness
- USDA zones 3–9
- Difficulty
- Easy
Step by step
- Mid March – mid July · 4 weeks before the last spring frost
Sow Seeds Outdoors
Sow thinly in drills where they are to grow. Sow very thinly to avoid thinning, which attracts carrot fly. Cover with fine mesh.
- 10–21 days after “Sow Seeds Outdoors” · Late March – early April
Check Germination
Seedlings should appear in 10–21 days. If sown outdoors, thin to 5 cm apart when big enough to handle.
- 54–75 days after “Check Germination” · Mid May – early June
Start Harvesting
Pull when finger-thick for baby carrots, or leave to grow on.
- 14–28 days after “Start Harvesting” · Early June – mid June
Sow Another Batch (optional)
Sow a short row every 3–4 weeks until midsummer.
- 45–75 days after “Sow Another Batch” · Mid July – mid August
Finish and Clear
Clear the remains to the compost heap once cropping ends.
