Less than you could get from the store with much less effort. Without dimensions or carrot variety no one here can give you a good answer. Assuming it’s 24” wide probably 25-35 reasonable quality ones assuming you sow at 1” spacing and thin half as they grow with 12” between the rows. Maybe you could do a ring around the pot and squeeze more if they’re a small variety.
Nervous-Event-5049
Milk jugs are usually 6″ square. 5 jugs across is a diameter of 30″. The area of a circle with a 30″ diameter is approximately 706.86 square inches. 4.9 feet of garden. Most square foot gardeners go with 6 per foot, but with the circle of go 22.
speppers69
You can plant seeds about 2-3 inches apart. Just make sure you fill that pot up with soil. Carrots do better with deeper soil. 18 inches plus is great for carrots. When you only have 10-12 inches of soil you can run into Franken-carrots…where they twist and grow in all sorts of weird shapes. Make sure you have good, fluffy soil. A little sand mixed in wouldn’t hurt at all. I mix in about 10-20% sand in the beds I do my carrots in.
You can plant a bunch of seeds in that size container and then when they are about 2-4 inches tall you can thin them out to 2-3 inches apart. You can plant them in a circular pattern like…🎯.
Full_Honeydew_9739
If it were mine, I would scatter twice as many seeds as I think necessary, keep the soil moist for 10 days or so by covering the top or moving it into shade, and watch the seeds sprout. Let them grow for a couple weeks then remove the ones growing on top of each other. Let them grow a couple more weeks, then pull the ones closer than 1/2 inch to another one. Wait a couple more weeks then remove the ones closer than an inch to each other. By then they should be doing pretty well and you can pull them as you eat them. Yes, some will be baby carrots or barely carrots at all in the beginning but they’re great in salads.
The ones you pull can actually be replanted somewhere else. Often they’ll grow just fine. I usually just poke a pencil down in the dirt, put the carrot in the hole then push the dirt back around it. remember to water them after transplanting.
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Less than you could get from the store with much less effort. Without dimensions or carrot variety no one here can give you a good answer. Assuming it’s 24” wide probably 25-35 reasonable quality ones assuming you sow at 1” spacing and thin half as they grow with 12” between the rows. Maybe you could do a ring around the pot and squeeze more if they’re a small variety.
Milk jugs are usually 6″ square. 5 jugs across is a diameter of 30″. The area of a circle with a 30″ diameter is approximately 706.86 square inches. 4.9 feet of garden. Most square foot gardeners go with 6 per foot, but with the circle of go 22.
You can plant seeds about 2-3 inches apart. Just make sure you fill that pot up with soil. Carrots do better with deeper soil. 18 inches plus is great for carrots. When you only have 10-12 inches of soil you can run into Franken-carrots…where they twist and grow in all sorts of weird shapes. Make sure you have good, fluffy soil. A little sand mixed in wouldn’t hurt at all. I mix in about 10-20% sand in the beds I do my carrots in.
You can plant a bunch of seeds in that size container and then when they are about 2-4 inches tall you can thin them out to 2-3 inches apart. You can plant them in a circular pattern like…🎯.
If it were mine, I would scatter twice as many seeds as I think necessary, keep the soil moist for 10 days or so by covering the top or moving it into shade, and watch the seeds sprout. Let them grow for a couple weeks then remove the ones growing on top of each other. Let them grow a couple more weeks, then pull the ones closer than 1/2 inch to another one. Wait a couple more weeks then remove the ones closer than an inch to each other. By then they should be doing pretty well and you can pull them as you eat them. Yes, some will be baby carrots or barely carrots at all in the beginning but they’re great in salads.
The ones you pull can actually be replanted somewhere else. Often they’ll grow just fine. I usually just poke a pencil down in the dirt, put the carrot in the hole then push the dirt back around it. remember to water them after transplanting.
Good luck and happy growing!