How To Grow Carrots Indoors At Home In Containers
Step-by-step instructions for growing carrots from seed in your home in flower pots. You can use simple grow lights or place your carrots on a sunny windowsill.
Makes: 4 carrots
Cost: $10.00
Equipment
- 1 Flower pot with drainage holes and saucer
- 1 Water mister
- 1 Grow lights optional
- 1 Electric timer optional
- 1 Electric fan optional
- 1 Embroidery scissors for thinning seedlings
Ingredients
- 1 pack Carrot seeds
- 1 bottle Liquid organic fertilzer use at half strength
Instructions
- Fill flower pot with moistened organic potting mix leaving approximately one inch below lip of pot for watering.
- Place carrot seeds on surface of potting mix, approximately 1-inch apart.1 pack Carrot seeds
- Cover seeds in thin layer of moist potting mix.
- Place under grow lights or on sunny windowsill.
- Keep soil moist but not damp. Use a water mister to avoid washing away seeds. Seeds should germinate within a few weeks.
- Rotate pots a quarter turn daily to prevent seedlings from being leggy or leaning.
- When seedlings are 3-inches tall, thin them out by cutting unwanted seedlings down to soil level using fine embroidery scissors. Remaining seedlings should be approximately 2-inches apart.
- Add liquid organic feed at half the recommended strength following product instructions.
- Indoor carrots usually take a few weeks longer than the 'days to maturity' listed on the seed packet.
Notes
See the complete article for photos and additional growing tips.
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