I've never counted days for carrots, I always just leave them in the garden and pick them when I want to eat them :)

Carrots are crazy, forget the maturity date on the package. I left one by accident over winter and picked it at about 200 days since planting and it was the best carrot I ever got

Yes please, Gardeners intuition would be VERY INTERESTING

I planted a whole package of carrot seeds one fall that I had gotten at Walmart for 10 cents on closeout. Didn't think that they would even grow but made 4 small rows anyway and was actually quite surprised at how many nice carrots I harvested. I don't even know what kind they were but the following spring I was rewarded with another small harvest from ones I missed the previous fall. Weathered (pun intended) the winter temperatures and were quite sweet and crunchy. Best 10 cents I ever spent.

for me personally ive often found that the maturity date on carrot seed packages just specify the minimum edible size they would be by then.

Don't worry about maturation date; carrots are biennials. You can leave them in the ground and harvest them right up until the ground freezes (Thanksgiving for us). The carrots will get sweeter as they enter winter since they use sugar as an kind of antifreeze. As an experiment, try leaving some over the winter and harvest them before greenup next spring.

I'm a new gardener, and your videos always make me feel inspired!

Here in Louisiana, our weather is legit PERFECT for carrots. I left mine in almost 2 months past the packet date. They were marvelous.

As a first time gardener, I would really benefit from a video on gardener intuition so I can begin to develop one myself.😊

Luke, pick the bigger ones and leave the smalls to continue growing. I ignore maturity date in regards to carrots, and try to leave them as long as possible. If I can make it to the first frost, those are by far the tastiest carrots of the season.

Yes, would like to see that video. Maybe talk about what to look for in various root veggies in order to determine if longer soil time is needed. Eg pulling samples, looking at tops in soil, etc.

Yes I want a video on gardeners intuition! By the way love all your videos. You’ve helped me get through the pandemic and gotten me back into gardening. Thank you!

There are so many things that say "Plant in the spring" and I want to try them now because I have enough growing days. Gardeners are scientists!

Hi!! Love your channel! This is my first year gardening and I've learned so much from your channel! Thanks!😊

This is such fun watching you pull carrots! You're so happy! It's one of my favourite things to do in the garden, each one is a surprise! I planted Atomic Red, Scarlet Nantes and Rainbow Mix. The Rainbows grow white, yellow, light orange, dark orange, red, purple. I didn't mix up my varieties. I put little signs to know which was where. I leave half my carrots in until after a couple light frosts,~mid September. Makes them even sweeter.

I find carrots easy to grow. The only issue I've had is how to get them to germinate. I just sow a lot of seeds in my well-watered raised beds with a thick layer of compost then cover them with old carpet or layers of cardboard then check them after two weeks to see if any have germinated. If they have, I simply remove the cover then keep them watered. I don't pay any attention to the info on the seed packets. I just feel around to see if there are any reasonably-sized carrots and pull them. Small ones remain until they're "usable". I've even left some in the garden when the soil was rock-hard frozen. When the soil thaws, I can harvest even more. I find it that simple. Don't obsess in the garden.

Yes, I’d like to see a video about activating gardeners’ intuition.

Your content is amazing Luke! Every video seems to mimic what's happening in my garden as well.

Love that you share fun fact with us like how carrots were first black, then red and then orange. Super cool!

THAT is a happy carrot! Haha! I love watching you harvest your crops. Look how happy you are! Thank you for sharing. My carrots and radishes grew in partial shade so they have been in the ground for... a while. I hope my crop looks as happy as yours when I dig it up.

Great carrot video, Luke! Thanks for all the info nuggets and taking us along for the harvest!

I so appreciate your garden knowledge, I have learned so much from your videos! Yes please, do the intuition video, every video you do is very helpful! Thank you and God bless ✝️🙏🏻❤️

This was my first year growing carrots and I'm so glad I did. It's been so much fun pulling out the little surprises. please do a video on gardening intuition. This year was my biggest garden, I challenged myself and it's been a lot of fun. But I really would like to learn more.

Luke, I love how you appreciate and get excited about your crop. I'm sure you've grown your share of carrots onions garlic... Whatever but you are always excited.. Love it

Good video! I left my carrots in for 76 days and had similar results. I think many of us would benefit from a gardener intuition video. Keep up the great work!! I always look forward to new MIGardener content!!

I planted carrots for the first time this year, and I'm definitely planting them again towards the fall. And yes on that gardeners intuition video!

Hi Luke, great advice to USE YOUR GARDENER INTUITION. Keep up the great videos. I truly enjoy and really look forward to them. Great harvest. take care, jack

Interested in the video! Please keep posting. I am new at gardening and would love to learn more. Thank you for taking the time to show us noobs how it's done.

Yes please on the intuition video! Only 107 in Las Vegas today. August is when I start winding down summer crops and get ready for our second Spring in September. Whatever survives in August will come back to life in September and grow until December. Gorgeous carrots

I really like your channel. I'm a first time gardener and I've learned with your videos. I've harvest yellow squash already and now I'm waiting for my butternut squash, zucchini, cucumbers, pumpkins, beets, tomatoes, broccoli, peppers, potatoes, beans, garlic and onions to be ready. I'm currently using some of the oregano, basil, sage, green onions, parsley, mint, rosemary, lettuce that I planted in April. I also planted 2 pineapples and avocado tree and they are doing great. I'm just going to continue watching your videos to learn more. Thanks

You and your wife amaze me for as long as you have been gardening. I went back a long time when you and your wife started your You Tube channel. Love watching your Channel and have learned a lot from it and I am 62 years old and still learning... Like you always say "Grow Big Or Go Home" Wishing you and your wife the best!

My Garden Friend thank you for all you do!!

I have trouble spacing the carrots and always end up with too many too close together. I would love a start to finish video on planting and spacing!👍🏻. Thanks Luke, for all your helpful videos

Thank you for your videos!! I just feed my family stuffed green peppers and butter nut squash with a side salad for dinner. ALL from our container patio garden!! 👍🏼🙌🏼

Thank you so much for sharing your experiences with us! I bought your book and I love it! 💕

Luke, I really want a video on gardeners intuition. You're amazing❣️

Yes please! In Missouri we planted in early April and not sure as a beginner when to harvest. They are just now looking like store bought! Thinking I’ll pick next week

Awesome video… thanks for the great info… glad leaving the carrots 🥕 in the ground worked out so well! I’m currently facing the same scenario in my garden!

My wife and I were just talking about this and I told her I pulled a carrot the other day to take a peek. After seeing how it had grown, I placed it back in the same hole with the rest of the carrots, just to see what happens. I think I will leave them a bit and pull them one at a time over time, and see where the sweet spot is.

Yes! Please do a video about gardener's intuition. I honestly feel it will help us all learn a little more about ourselves and how making mistakes are lessons, not failures.

Hi Luke. Thank you for your videos. Their wonderful! Carrots: This year 8/08/22 Has been a weird year for us. Z: 7A, lower Westchester, NY. Carrots are slow this year. It's now 147 days from sowing 4 varieties, (50 - 80 days to maturity). Their now still smallish, but big enough to eat. My longest is St. Valery, are 4 - 6 in. long. (definitely not 10-12!). Different subject, we had 3 days in mid 94's May 10 through 12. Everything BOLTED! Even though the lettuce got to 3-4 ft. high, kept the flowers trimmed, the flavor and texture didn't change! We had delicious lettuce up to last week! In mid-late July they stopped growing new leaves. I though I was going to lose the Broccoli, but it's still producing. abit, smaller heads. Thank you for the Giant Crimson tomato. It's 9 ft. tall, loaded with green tomatoes. The 2 almost ripe ones disappeared a few days ago. Have a grey catbird problem. Started last year, & sprayed with Cayanne pepper spray. Doesn't work this year! Fortunately, I grew 6 varieties of hot peppers last year and froze a lot of them. They ranged from Jalapeno to Carolina Reaper. Today I made Gardener Scotts Hot Pepper and Garlic cocktail. I used 2 of each variety! 🥵👹 I grow 20 varieties of tomatoes, 20 plants on 9 ft. string trellises. My beds are 4' x 10'. I'm also in the process of putting a roof over the garden. I am waiting with bated breath to taste the Giant Crimson!!! Thank you, Luke.

I was still out there in 90 some degree weather this summer. It paid off and the sunburn was worth it lol. Lovely carrot haul!

I really appreciate your videos and I hope you know how much I appreciate your expertise and I have passed them on to my dad. Bless you 🙏

I would love to hear a talk on your gardeners intuition! Great idea. Love the carrot video! LyNette R., Golden, CO

I don’t like the heat either! Especially our muggy heat.

Yes, please! Definitely need a video on gardner's intuition!

Here in Southern Missouri we will leave our fall carrots in the ground well into December and even January. Rot chances do increase, but it allows us to maximize our limited storage space.

Congrats on the great 🥕 haul... it has indeed been a “weird year”. The late winter storm in May, then the non-existent spring weather going from freezing to super hot. It’s all about rolling with the weather Mother Nature gives us. Good choice on lengthening the carrot growing season. Congrats again!

Gardener's intuition....great idea for a video! Please do! And thanks for this video.

Yes, would love to see more on gardeners intuition 😃

Love your videos! Over here in SE Michigan! Getting lots of zucchini, summer squash, cucumbers, green peppers. Tomato's are just starting to ripen, jalapeno's are starting to get hot! I failed on growing potatoes this year, but I will try again next year!

Enjoy the short summer garden season. Wear a cap and shades bro. Enjoy the sunshine . happy gardening.

Gardener's intuition sounds good to me. I wish I could a few of those carrots! They look delicious!

I just placed my first order with MIgardener. I'm so excited! Those Parisienne carrots are fun for kids to grow. They are also great for carving garnishes. They're the perfect size and shape for stew. Roast them alongside beets and small potatoes for a wonderfully colorful root veg dish. I'm making myself hungry; I love carrots. Anyway, great video. Several root veggies can be left in ground, and picked when YOU"RE ready. Glad to see it demonstrated. Mmmm....carrots!

Thanks for the great fun video Luke! Pulling carrots is sort of like Christmas morning for me. You don't know what you've been gifted until you see it.🙂

Would love for you to do the video you mentioned I actually left my carrots in the ground cos they didn't look ready to me and was questioning myself so glad to see this video. Would have watched earlier but canning keeping me busy!

Getting ready to pull up mine today! Will wait for my toddler and let him do it with me, he loves this stuff and now is another huge reason for me to keep going veggies

I've learned so much from this channel, so I'd love to see what you have to say about intuition

(Australian seasons)I planted my carrots in March, I've been pulling them as I want them for the past 3 months. We are just about to exit winter into spring.

Great video Luke. I am planning on doing some carrots next season so this gives me some idea of what should be done if they do not look mature enough.

I look at the tops and when I see them emerging, I add a bit of soil on top to cover them - they do plump up when you give them extra time and coverage. Mine are planted in tight rows with irrigation on the mound sides, the foliage touches each other on all sides blocking out all sun to the ground. This year I did a peat moss compost mix for the mound, by keeping it moist all season - this seems to be my best crop to date.

Thanks for the shout out to arizona 115*!! I went out to mulch the dead plants and felt so sad that I cant grow anything in july or august. Cheers

Yes. Please add a video for 'gardeners intuition'...thank you!

Gardener's intuition...well said sir.

I have never had carrots go bad. I have left them and onions both in the ground, and they never go bad.

I’ve left my rainbow carrots in the ground longer as well. I will be pulling them at the end of the week. I hope it will be worth it! Awesome harvest!

Yes, do the video, please! I'm on my second try with carrots. First time I pulled them by the date on the package. I was so disappointed; they were small and definitely not worth the growing space. This time, I am growing them in buckets and leaving them in about a month over date. 🤞🏼

Yes to the gardener’s intuition video please. 😊

I harvest and thin at the same time, which means going from baby carrots to bigger carrots through the season. However, thinning late can on occasion mean they grow a bit too close and end up hugging each other so I need to take a cluster of small carrots. My ground is actually not loose but I still find that my carrots are usually straight unless they intertwine or hit a stone. I don't water much though, so the carrots have to go down to find moisture.

Gardeners intuition, yes. Could you do a video on growing black sesame seeds please?

Thank you for the great advice.

Yes. Make the video. Love all your videos!!

Lovely. Thanks for sharing.

I always pluck carrots early..so I don't get any carrots.. please help me Mr. MiGardener...please😭😭

Please do a video on gardeners intuition! That would be great!

Gardeners intuition would be a great video!

I'm in S Illinois and I did the same thing, for the same reason. I'm pulling mine as I need them and they just keep getting bigger for now. I did just sow a new bed of them about a week ago, but weve had a lot of rain so fingers crossed my seeds didnt wash away. God bless!

I left mine in about 4 months. New garden and poor soil. I learned a lot including I like the greens in salad.

Mine have been in the ground 105 days (planted May 1) and they look very good. Still growing, but I see some big ones. We will dig as needed.

can you do a video on the best practices for preparing and storing carrots post harvest?

I love your content! Did you accidentally turn off auto-captions? I rely on them to be able to enjoy your videos.

Over here in Scotland we only pick them as needed and then lift them before very hard frosts. Maturity dates are one thing many of the gardeners I know do not follow, because maturity dates are for perfect conditions and no garden will ever have "perfect conditions"

In Southeast Asia (Malaysia), Carrot is not common crop but I try growing little fingers and chantenay carrots in pot and my carrots growing well. Harvest after 65 days. I am very happy and glad my stunning shape and huge carrots. Now I try growing rainbow carrot this season. Many people here are not success planting carrots because of heavy rain coming all over the years including me.

You HAVE to be careful if you ever eat wild carrots, because they often times look near identical to some of their very poisonous family members like water hemlock. If it bleeds get away from it, though not all the poisonous carrot lookalikes will bleed yellow.

hi luke! could you possibly do (or direct me to) a video on winter care for asparagus plants? the crowns we bought from you are doing great and we don't want to lose them when the snow flies.. lol! thanks in advance

Yes to the intuition video please thank you

Thanks Luke ( from Australia)

yes please make that video..thank you

The carrots look nice and look as though they could be good pulled in a couple more weeks. I grow Nantes and it is a great carrot, growing with a flat growing tip and tastes sweet when cooked.

Would love to see a video on gardener's intuition!!

Great harvest 👍

I’ve hear you can decide by the size of the top of the root. Is that what you did?

Yay!!! First comment! I live for your content!💚💚💚

Hi. I’m an MI gardener too(I’m obviously not THE MI gardener). Fun fact: Your shop is not that far away. I live in a city near Detroit.

Luke, thank you as always. In this Video, I noticed for the first time the rain barrel behind you. Forgive me if you have put out a prayer video on this previously but I have not seen it. On that note, thank you for a previous video you did on watering; I found it educational and implemented it. Do you use the water from the rain barrel for your plants? If so, what do you use to transfer the water? If you do use the water for the plants, can you offer advice and considerations when buying a rain barrel(s). Many thanks,

Yes please , would love to see IT 🌺

Nice job!

I just check my carrots. Spring takes longer than the pack says usually. While summer, with good watering, they can go a little faster. I did notice some that were planted in April, tried to go to seed. (scarlet nantes seed from Walmart) Luckily it was only a few, but the whole 50 sq ft had to come out and go in cold storage so not to loose the crop to bolting. FYI variety Mokum is a delicious, and fast variety with little core down the middle, none if picked as baby carrots. They have treated me very well in both cool and warm weather. If left a little long, they can get rather big in loose soil, and they have never bolted on me.

I usually leave my carrots in until I want to eat them. I know it’s time when one of them starts to prepare to flower. I planted carrots in October last year and was harvesting them until June this year, and they were still good! And most were way bigger then in this video, Nantes, chantenay, Danvers, etc.

Great video Luke !!! I am leaving my carrots in as well but I am in Brisbane Australia we are just heading into Spring & Summer. Please do some videos on Gardeners Intuition as I would love some advice etc. Cheers Denise - Australia ps -where is Genevieve we never see her .