Hey all! Happy to be back and sharing this skill with you - I didn't know how to do it until someone showed me! I hope it helps you grow HUGE CARROTS ;)

Great info. Tip for whoever...if you don't use pelleted seed, put your seed in an old pepper shaker and use that to spread seed in your garden. Although carrots are pretty tough, when you are storing fruit or veg long term, it is important not to bruise them. A bruise can become a spot of rot which can ruin the entire bin of food. So while throwing carrots in a wheelbarrow is not a huge deal, do not do this with potatoes or apples, etc! We use sand for our storage. It is easy to sift and store for reuse the next year. Being as sustainable as possible is important to us, plus saves money. And don't forget, carrot tops are edible!

You can save your best carrots and plant them in spring and let them flower and so you get seed..! Same goes for onions..

Aside from the great info, she’s got the nicest narration voice I’ve ever heard. And yep, my carrots were absolutely pitiful last year. On my way to buy a broadfork and pelleted seeds!!

Making me wish I had land, a garden, and root seller. ~Smile!

another way to plant tiny carrot seed is roll out a long length of paper towel and set the seed in rows on the towel in the proper spacing then lightly moisten the towel with a spray bottle and let dry over night, the seeds will stick to the towel, then cut into strips of seeds and plant in the garden. gives you even spacing and all the seeds are planted at the proper depth.

I tasted a carrot from my garden and i had to just stop for a minute and appreciate the floral notes and intense sweetness i tasted... its truly incredible.

If you have an actual winter, like here in Canada, you can leave the carrots in the ground and harvest in the spring. They must be harvested as soon as the soil thaws though. This way, we only harvest what we'll need throughout the winter and have freshly picked carrots come Springtime. 😁

is one more piece of advice welcomed? it makes me crazy when people throw vegetables into a barrow, bucket or onto any hard surface! be gentle with them to make them last, bruises and cuts lead to premature rot after all your hard work and patience... 260 pounds is an excellent yield. i’m taking up chantenay and nantes any day now - not 260 lbs though. well done

I'm so jealous ! What a fantastic way to feed your family . There must be such satisfaction in growing your own healthy food.

WHAT A GREAT VIDEO ...... WHAT A GREAT FAMILY ....... WHAT A GREAT HOMESTEAD !!!! BLESSINGS AND ABUNDANCE FROM THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY !!!!

Step one: Move from the city to a farm....

When I was a child in the summer I went to our country side house. Mu grandparents were growing everything that you could possibly need (for 4 households, theirs, my aunt's, ours and for the summer house of course). So I saw how much work it was. I don't think I really appreciated it much because it was always there and I hated to have to go to the garden and help. Then Grandpa died and suddenly there were no more home grown veggies and fruits and I started missing thus times. Now all grown up and I started dreaming of an own garden about 5 years ago. Suddenly I want to plant tomatoes and potatoes and carrots and all that there is. I remember some of the methods but not all of them. So now that grandma died as well (she was 92), I started watching videos about food preservation and gardening. What I want to say is thank you for sharing your knowledge! My grandparents used to put carrots in sand for the winter but this seems to work just fine. 😊

Intriguing, I've never seen carrots stored that way in a root cellar. I hope you're going to do one on how you store your potatoes in the cellar also. Thanks so much for sharing your garden with us, Jimmy

You should watch Hollis and Nancy's Homestead video on planting carrots... He made a template for planting them which keeps you from having to thin them. Love your channel!

I felt like i was being read the beginning of a Nicholas Sparks book...

We cover out carrots, grown in boxes, with dry fall leaves. Have never had any carrots get frozen here in NW Mt.

Never seen the potting soil saving method. Thank you for that

My new favorite channel. All my life all I ever wanted was to have a beautiful wife with a couple of babies running around and to spend hours in the garden and cooking from it drinking wine. Looks fun and like lots of amazing memories are being made!! Well done

That is absolutely what gardening is all about.... the harvest, and being able to enjoy it for months after it came out of the ground!

I use damp peat moss for carrots and beets,but I was taught to leave 1-2 inches of stem on them and not to wash them before storing ,same with spuds

OMG Shaye, you’ve given me hope for a carrot crop. I’m ORANGE with envy over yours! Btw, what a huge accomplishment: 260 lbs!🥕Congratulations! I love the way you tell your stories. Thank you for sharing the beauty of your lives with us❣️

Awesome job with the carrots. You can't go wrong using a broad fork.

Little short stubby things... remember me of my husband 😁

Inspiring 😊❤️. Once my husband and I made the switch to organic or home grown, we don’t peel our carrots either..😊

Glad to see you again and thank you for sharing your friends advice on growing carrots. Advice is always good❤❤❤❤ Can't wait for the next video.

You made a cold room! My husband built a cold room for our neighbor. He uses it to hang game. We also have a friend who has a cold room for her flowers. She grows several types of flowers and uses the room not only for game, but for flower arrangements she donates to convalescent hospitals. We'll be making ours hopefully next spring. Nice!

Know what I love about your channel, you don't mind sharing the weeds with us. I come from a long line of gardeners and there are always "fruit" among the weeds....sounds like a new ladie's Bible study for me...thanks for the lovely videos.

Thank you for sharing! I'm inspired by everything you do. Blessings to you and your beautiful family : )

OH MY GOSH!! YOUR COLD STORAGE ROOM!! Is there a "how to" For that?! 😁

Thanks for the tips, Shaye, especially the one about the potting soil. I’ve heard of using wet sand before, but not the potting soil. We had a huge carrot harvest this year as well, although I’m not sure I grew storage carrots. I also don’t have a walk in cooler, so I’ll try my cellar.

Such an amazing share! My first batch was a fail and I’m going to try your advice for my second batch. A big thank you!

Don't discard the leaves! Carrot leaves are actually edible, and make a tasty addition to any salad!

This year is our first year for growing carrots, the soil in the raised beds is already loose so I hope it works out. Yours look great. I sewed my seeds about two weeks ago hoping for a fall crop. Hope I'm not too late.

What a harvest! Your cooler is filling up fast. Thanks for sharing your tips.

May your carrot grow long and strong,my friend. 😂😂

This was so helpful- and beautiful carrots 🥕! You are living the dream!! Thank you for sharing! ☺️

God bless you best wishes for you and your family from iran.

Really beautiful video. Thank you.

thanks for the tip on using “potting soil”. I’ve always used Damp sharp mortar sand... will try your idea this year... and then use the old potting soil to prepare my potted plants next spring.

I would have never thought to store them in dirt! We won't have enough this year to do that but when I do I am going to try this!

Beautiful. We have left the carrots in the ground, and harvested them through the winter here in the Northwest. Of course, some of them were discovered and enjoyed by the beasties.

I need help with carrots too. Awesom garden haul.. thank you for your friends wonderful advice.. i always listen to fellow gardeners too.. I dont peal carrots either

Great tips, this is our first year for starting out homestead, the seedlings are growing, I'll have videos this week.

How clever is that! Your homemade walk-in cooler is simply a small, well insulated room with an air conditioner!? I love it!!!

Never been lucky enough to have carrots like that. A great way to store them also!

Thank you so much for this video and information! And I especially thank you for sharing your passion for what you’re doing! It’s lovely to hear and see! My husband and I started out on our organic farming adventure 3 years ago now and carrots have not been the easiest crop! Thanks for the tips 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻

In the days before refrigeration, up in the alps the self sufficient farmers put carrots in piles of sand in their earth cellar..stayed good through the winter. Lots of stuff they dehydrated too.

Those are beautiful carrots. We have raised garden beds because of our clay soil. I hope we can grow some carrots.

Hi the Elliotts your garden is lovely and all those carrotts amazing such a healthy lifestyle you have bless you all .much love.♥♥

Goodness, you’ve got it going lady!!! Thank you for the tips!! I took notes. I am so tired of those crazy/weird looking carrots that yield nothing. I love to can my garden goods!! Love watching your shares!!!!!

Nice

This was awesome! Thank you so much! Please do more like this! Especially cold storage.

WOW not that's a haul of gorgeous carrots! And you can grow more in the same year? Amazing! Just Lovely, that's why I miss you. Thanks again for sharing . Jo Jo in VT

Beautiful carrots...love my root vegetables!!

Young lady God bless y’all. Thanks for sharing your beautiful family and lifestyle with us. (Old guy from Arkansas)🇺🇸

We could really make use of community gardens in school yards (tended weekends and after hours) and in as many Neighborhoods as possible.

This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in gardening! So many great suggestions in a short span of time, thank you! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 BTW, 2 acres is a lot of land compared to my half acre ijs...

This was a beautiful video

Shaye I just love your videos. They make my day. Thanks for pouring your efforts and time into sharing your successes and experience with us. Thank you! Thank you! And those carrots are absolutely beautiful!

This morning I looked up how to do this exact winter storage technique and watched a few videos. Then you post yours, so odd! Anyway, your video on this is my favorite! I started my carrots late so they won't be ready for a few weeks but now I know that I'm for sure going to try this!

Watched the whole thing to find out how to store root vegetables only to find out you have a root cellar!!!! Yes, I know root cellars are the best way to store root vegetables it’s been done for thousands of years.

Carrot advice for those who don't have big space for rows and rows of in-bed carrots: The best luck I've had with carrots is container growing shorter varieties. Right now, I've got about 50 scarlet nantes and danvers half-longs in 2 15 gallon tubs along the side of my driveway. And then I just do 2 harvests a year, spring and fall. About 100 carrots in a small space over the course of a year Ps. Thanks for the great storing advice. Your carrots are beautiful.

Thanks for a great video, miss you when your gone! You could post daily and I would be in heaven! I loved the look into your cellar! Love the filling up of your walk in!

I've never figured out how to store root crops before, this was very helpful, ran across this video trying to figure out radishes. Btw I never peel my carrots either if I grow them myself.

If you’re saving seed, make sure it’s an open pollinated/heirloom variety- hybrid carrots cannot reproduce true .

Thank you SO MUCH for sharing. Regards, from Scotland.

You're pretty much living my dream. And I wish you all the blessings of the earth and family. Great lil' vid. Thanks. :-)

Everything about this was fascinating. I live in the Deep South (near the gulf coast) so the idea of a cellar, cold storage, Even rinsing your carrots in that wicker basket- the recurring thought for me was “down here we’d have mold and mildew” 😌.... what a beautiful system you have. I actually researched broad forking and priced some locally on your recommendation .

My dream is to have a garden and a home as wonderful as your families!💚

I need to get one of those. Thank you for sharing.

I love your videos, I dream of having my house as a farm, I hope very soon calf, we are already starting

Thanks for sharing your tips on growing carrots- love love love your videos

Also: "That's me!" "Ahaha. Do you see yourself?" "Mhm!" D'awww...

just planted hardneck garlic . spanish roja, ajo rojo and red grain 20 cloves each 19 in memphis tn glad to find your channel it was my first year growing carrots i hope next year i will have a harvest like yours

What great tips! Carrots are always such a struggle!

Last year my grandsons pulled the carrots and some were left behind. Late winter I was prepping beds and pulled them. They were the best, sweet and crunchy! This year I’m going to leave a section in the ground, cover them with something insulating like straw and see what happens come spring. I’m jealous of your walk in cooler. We have a basement so the plans are forming in my head. Blessings to all.

Thank you for sharing! So beautiful and so helpful!

This is the best video I have watched in 2019. It seems to be a great way to store meat, too. The air conditioner helps to prevent mold I suppose. Awesome root cellar and carrot growing tips.

I am so excited to find this channel!! I started the BTE method a few years ago but it seems to be getting harder 😕 I've never been able to grow carrots either! I'm hoping to learn more about growing for storage purposes bc it's a LOT of work to just get a bit to eat thru the end of the season

What a fantastic harvest! Amazing how they store so well in the damp soil like that, well done on the cool store room, your gardens are incredible :)

Great watching value as always. Tell me, have you done a video on the cooler build? I'd like more details on the cooler. Cheers.

In the "old time" (I am 72 yrs old and I was the youngest of the house) we had a storage room un the basement and we were storing the root vegetables in a "sand" box (about 8ins high!). We should start to build again a food storage under every houses so that people could store healthy food...

Its great when your soil reaches it's peak performance and your pulling big long clean carrots.

What a delightful video, filmed so well. Such a great harvest. Thanks for sharing 😀💕

Glad your channel came up on recommendations list

This is poetic, soothing and inspirational 💚

On this bitterly cold, brightly sunny end of fall day, I found this so relaxing & pleasurable. It was a nice break. Now back to housework & cooking something to eat - an open faced broiled sandwich my mom used to make - of mostly cooked bacon, sliced tomato on grainy bread, with a blanket of a very nice NY state cheddar. When the cheddar browns up a bit - it's time to eat. Then back to cleaning up the kitchen. Later, I'm making a simple sauce & blanching a heap of fresh cranberries to soak in the syrup a while, & then lay them out on parchment to dry in a slow oven.They're a joy in scones & muffins, but best when eaten with raw nuts, toasted pumpkin & sunflower seeds, & maybe some cheese & an apple. Loved those dried flowers - piled on the bench. It's beyond words, just how pleasing it was to see you cutting & grouping them together, & then hanging them in a pass through or doorway like that. It felt almost as though I was there, doing it myself, as I love this type of activity - & now it's a matter of waiting until spring, as we approach the shortest day of the year, & it's been in the teens & single digits. That combination of flowers & leaves looks so sumptuous & elegant...yet creating that tableau - not counting the months of tending the plants - was such a simple thing to do. And I appreciated your narrative exploring how meaningful it is to continue to create beauty in our lives. Seeing those harvested flowers seems to have stirred my senses & uplifted my spirits. I never knew you could dry sedum flowers like that - & yours are so much bigger than mine were, & so is your lavender! You, your family, home & gardens are just so lovely & gentle. This was such a great, unexpected escape from all the political rancor I've been steeped in for months now. To see your kids taking this all in, & helping was a nice feeling too. Thank you to you all, & Happy New Year.

I love your carrots. Thank you for sharing.

So happy for your abundant harvest and LOVE your root cellar. I actually stopped planting carrots for the last few gardens because of the puny results. Your tips have given me new hope and I still have time to plant some for fall.

How beautiful! Thank you for sharing! May God Bless you and yours!

Have you read Dr. Axe’s book “Eat Dirt”. He describes organic grown carrots vs store bought and non organic and that the dirt from our organic home grown gardens have amazing probiotics and eating them with the skins on can benefit us. This was so therapeutic watching this. I wish I had a root cellar

I’ve never been successful with carrots! Thank you

I love this video and your tips. I did not even plant carrots for the last several years because of the puny results, but this gives me hope, and I still have time to plant a patch for fall. So happy for your bumper crop. LOVE your root cellar.

Just subscribed, looking forward to learning new ideas from your channel. I’ve a small vegetable garden, however I want to restart & build a market garden like yours. My garden consists of root vegetables & leaf vegetables, salads, climbing fruits, herbs. I try to rotate my patches & companion plant. Thank you for sharing 🌻

"We only farm 2.25 acres here in the Pacific NW and we don't have a huge plot of land." Meanwhile I'm searching for a home to buy in my area and think 0.9 acres of land is huge 😭😭😭. To have 2.25 acres...I would go nuts. Glad you're doing well on your little nook of dirt! Keep it up! 🤩🤩🤩

3:12 for the start of the info.

What temp do you keep it in your walk in cooler? Have you ever used play sand instead of potting soil? I can't seem to find potting soil that doesn't have chemical fertilizers in it.

Last year we had a great crop of carrot with just the regular little seeds. We decided to try some of the coated seeds. The ones we bought we pink. Disappointing hardly any came up. Glad you had good luck with them.

Thank you so much . Cause my carrot never lasted throughout the winter.