Carrots are a root crop, best grown from seeds. You will not find seedlings at the garden center because they do not transplant well. Carrot seeds prefer soil temperatures between 50 and 85 degrees F.

If you've never tasted a carrot fresh from the garden, you've missed out on a treat. Carrots are considered in a cool-weather vegetable. In Southern USDA hardiness zones, you can take advantage of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’ve ever had deformed, or forked carrots because you grew them in a rocky garden bed, you may want to try growing these root ...

Last year I made a small attempt at growing mainly vegetables and a few flowers in containers. I still have questions: When ...

For those without the outdoor space necessary for a traditional garden, growing plants—including vegetables—in containers is a great option. Unfortunately, not all vegetables can grow and flourish in ...

Growing carrots from seed is something even beginning gardeners can do successfully. And homegrown carrots come in an assortment of fantastic colors—orange, purple, red, yellow, and white—and are much ...

It's good to get a jumpstart on your gardening, and we have a list of vegetables to start growing that you'll want to dust off your green thumb for.

Starting seedlings can be trickier than you'd expect for a variety of reasons, but you can use toilet paper tubes to get carrots started. Here's how.