All our carrots were short and fat. We grew them in brand new 12” raised beds with great soil, so there wasn’t any barrier to them growing longer but all of them were stubby. What are we doing wrong? My last post of a frankenveggie sweet potato was so totally diss’d that I’m looking forward to what comments my carrots will inspire.
by Majestic_Highlight46
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What variety did you plant? Some varieties produce short and round roots by design.
Assuming that it’s supposed to be a straight and long carrot variety, then your problems are some combination of excess nitrogen, physical resistance in the soil, and/or inconsistent watering.
I suspect the soil is packed a bit too tightly under the plant..
Nematodes?
carrots and potato are root crops ( Tubers ) they need phosphorous and potassium, without consistent feedings of those 2 things, they cant grow
good source of phosphorous and potassium = mkp
good source of potassium = sulfate of potash
You got a wholllllle lotta blockage about 3” down. When you say you planted in “great” soil, what are we talking here? My first instinct is to say there’s a lot of clay and not enough amendments in the soil.
Also, which variety of carrot did you plant?
What kinda soil? From what I understand carrots need loose sandy soil to grow deep. Clay soil is too tight.
Hard soil man, dig deeper, you need to soften it, carrots need soft soild atleast 30cm deep
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Everything reminds me of him, and all that.
I would get the same results with what I though was good soil. I finally got better results when I mixed compost and amendments with play sand at a 25/75% ratio, respectively.
.. they got lazy..?
Im not an expert but my first idea would be to airrate the soil. I imagine it stopped where the soil was hard so maybe try softening it. Or if there are rocks, but that wouldnt do it to all of them. Or like others said diffrent carrot species can grow diffrently
If not a Chantenay style carrot then you need to work the soil far more that tends to happen if the soil is excessively compacted.
Carrots love a loose well drained soil.
Is this a pumpkin/ carrot hybrid?
Did you transplant them by any chance? If the growing root tip was damaged young it can cause really odd deformations.