Can carrots be grown in nursery pots? If that has been the question that has caused you to be surfing the internet then you really need to pay attention to this article, as it promises to provide answers to all of your questions. I understand your desire to want to grow your plant in and out of season, and since growing in nursery pots gives you absolute control of some sort, it helps you grow in a cultured environment unlike growing your plants in an open field. You need to understand that you can grow this particular vegetable named carrot anywhere as long as there is enough space and a bit of sunlight.
Carrots are known to be a root vegetable, and it is mostly orange in color, even though there are other cultivators that have several colors such as yellow, white, purple, black, and red. Daucus carota is the botanical name for carrot, this root vegetable is a biennial plant and belongs to the Umbelliferae family, Apiaceae. The fast grower’s cultivators get to mature in about 90 days, while the slow grower’s cultivators get to mature in about 120 days of planting the seeds. The root of this root plant contains high quantities of alpha and beta carotene which are a very good source of vitamin A, vitamin B6, and also Vitamin K.
We must know that carrots were not grown initially for their roots, they were primarily grown for their aromatic leaves and seed initially and not their roots. That is a brief note on what a carrot is, but the major emphasis of this discussion is if carrots can be grown in nursery pots, and the answer is yes, and the next paragraph of this article will be talking about how you can grow carrots in your garden using nursery pots.
Carrots can be grown in containers such as nursery pots because carrots are known to be slender plants, and you can park quite a nunnery of them in a single pot. Knowing that a 10 gallon grow nursery pot is around 16 inches across and can hold about 25 to 35 carrots depending on the variety of carrots to be grown. Also, growing carrots in a container give you liberty over the control of weeds, as well as helps you to have fewer worries about pests, like rabbits and slugs. Carrots are very easy to grow in different types of nursery pots, however, you must consider choosing nursery pots that are deep enough to contain the roots of whichever varieties you want to cultivate.
