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This is a really simple beginner garden project for kids and adult : grow cultivated carrot in jolt ! you could grow tiny ( fairy ) carrots like I did here , or larger full - size ones — indoors or outdoors . I ’ll show you how it ’s done .

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Growing miniature carrots in jars.

Carrots sprouting in jars

Grow Mini Carrots in Jars

This task started with a request for a vegetable garden task for someone without a garden or any garden great deal and a unseasoned child interested in seeded player start . This will work by a cheery window indoors or out of doors .

Growing fairy carrots is a good initiate undertaking . It ’s a gardening formula - circuit breaker but can emphatically help spark an interest in growing .

commonly you would not grow carrot ( or anything else in a jar ) because of the deficiency of drain holes , but it ’s a container most mass have and it works for this experimentation .

Carrots growing in mason jars.

Plus , by growing in a clear shabu jar , you get to see the carrots forming in the soil .

Normally , carrot are a vegetable that like loose sandy grunge so they can grow their taproots ( the part we most normally eat ) without any obstructions .

But you have in all likelihood also seen exposure of carrot growing in all sorts of amusing chassis , with one or more cultivated carrot wrap around another like two little friend hugging . I ’ve begin a photo below of one of mine like that .

Colorful carrots with their tops.

That happens due to crowding , either because the soil is heavier , on the the Great Compromiser side , or there is some sort of blockage in the ground like endocarp or Rock , that the taproot had to maturate around .

This fairy carrot project encourages that same struggle so the carrots are a bit crowded in the jar , either stunting their growing or create funny shapes .

you may use any carrot seeds althoughrainbow carrots(orange , red , yellow , imperial ) add some wow factor .

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Carrot Growing TipsBiennial plant producing taproot in first year and flowers in yr two . Daucus carota sativa shape : Nantes , Danvers , Chantenay , Imperator• Seed seed soil temperature 45 - 85 ° F ( 7 - 30 ° C)• Germination : 10 - 15 days• come median 60 % sprouting rate and rest viable roughly 3 years.• Full sun• dirt : well - drainingand fertile , coherent moisture.• Cool weather crop• harvest time : 2 - 4 months ( deviate by variety)• Taproot and tops are edible• Fun Project : grow sprite carrot in shock

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Sow the Seeds

After a hebdomad or two your seed will start to spud :

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Care

Harvest Time

Here ’s how they look :

To give you and idea of the sizing , here they are next to the 3″ foliage fairy .

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Carrot seedlings growing in mason jar.

Wash the carrot and eat up them fresh from the garden or portion out them with a vegetable - loving pet .

But do n’t be surprised if your carrots want to hug just - bye first :

Summary

Have fun with your mini Daucus carota sativa growing !

The instruction for growing full - sizecarrots indoors are here .

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How to Grow Tiny Fairy Carrots in Jars

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Instructions

Carrots growing in mason jars.

Tiny carrots.

Tiny carrots with fairy ornament.

Carrots hugging.

Fairy carrots growing in jars.

Carrots growing in mason jars.