Hey Jordan! great experiment! i have transplanted carrots a few times over the past few years. after some experimentation of my own i know that if i take just a moments care when transplanting the seedlings i can harvest straighter carrots. using a chop stick (favourite gardening tool when working with seedlings) I am able to make a fairly deep hole and then just slightly straighten the long thread like tap root of each seedling. sounds time consuming but once you get the gist of it, it only adds a few seconds.

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow! Very Cool!! Great call on using the chopstick!!

@purplethumb7887

4 ай бұрын

Ah. I said pretty much the same before reading your comment. I agree!

@internetjunky4327

3 ай бұрын

That's a really good tip! I'm completely new at gardening and didn't know I wasn't supposed to plant carrots in seed trays... I did just that and I wanted to transplant them because I also planted a lot of seeds per spot. Also it's cold out so I don't want to put them in a container yet, so I am going to try this when transplanting them :)

I appreciate the honesty! Instead of trying to look like an expert in all things garden, you look like a learner - and that's helpful to those of us dealing with successes - and failures!

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Totally! Couldn't agree more!

I actually really appreciate this video. All the other videos people seemingly are experts at gardening and their crops come out amazing and big and perfect all the time. Your showing the reality of the learning process and I appreciate that. Coz when all u see is people doing perfect work it's kindof discouraging when I don't do a good job. I'll often not even try because I think it's just not gonna work out. But this video makes me inspired to keep trying...I really appreciate that.

I LOVE that you showed us the REAL results of your experiment! :D For those who may not be growing carrots for direct eating (i.e. shredded, coined, pureed, etc.), I would care more about the fact that you harvested a larger quantity than the "wonky" shapes! ;) They don't matter if you're just going to cut them up anyway. :) I would also LOVE to see you try this experiment for the upcoming fall season. How does transplanting in the fall differ from your spring transplanting? You would have to harvest at the same time that you did for this one, though. SUPER cool experiment. :) I was thinking about using "homemade seed tape" for my carrots this fall, but I may just transplant them now! :D

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree Gwendy! I immediately chop mine up and freeze them and then use them in roasted dishes through the winter - so I'm totally cool with some wonk!

@clynthia0510

Жыл бұрын

​@@MindandSoil I love that about you ♥️ too!

Thanks for mentioning the bounty-harvest yield and mental health. My mental health is definitely better 😌 now that I am gardening. I'm a container gardener by choice. In my mind it is easier. My anxiety level runs on high on most days. However, I did my 1st fall garden started in September of 2022. I successfully harvested the 6 broccoli starts that I purchased from Wal-Mart. The 2nd harvest from those plants is percolating in the same containers! Yaaay. I'm going to try transplanting and direct sowing carrots 🥕 and beets, too. Thank you for removing the fear! My intent, moving forward, is to enjoy the journey. 🥰😍😊🙏🏾

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Awesome! This is great, thank you for sharing :) Definitely enjoy the journey!

I have never tried starting root crops in cells inside. But when thinning our direct-sown beets and parsnips, my wife has often transplanted them to spots where there were gaps in the row. This has worked surprisingly well - at least I was surprised, since theoretically they don't like being moved. But if you catch them at the right size, the transplants grow just fine. I would say this confirms Jordan's findings.

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

I think that approach is really smart - direct sow 80% and then fill in 20% as needed 👌🏻

Plant my carrots in soil blocks. I 3d printed a tall soil block maker. About two weeks after they sprout, I pop the soil block into the ground. Carrots turn out perfect in every ear and are appropriately spaced. It would probably work with beets, too. The soil blocks are tall enough that the tap root doesn't hit the bottom before they can be transplanted outside.

See, I was super impressed by the size of the transplanted carrots. The trick is to look through the lens of a beginner gardener! Very cool experiment.

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Hahah you're not wrong! Or to just keep on letting go of expectations! :D

As I thinned my beets and carrots this year, I replanted the seedlings. All but one beet grew. I wonder how they would have grown if you gave them another month.

I actually enjoyed the wonky carrots, as well. They give you a smile and you know they are home grown. They definitely have character. I would be honored to be served those carrots. Thanks for the honest video. So refreshing.

@internetjunky4327

3 ай бұрын

Also I don't know about you but I chop them up while cooking anyways

Keep on growing, experimenting and sharing! It’s all therapy ♥️

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Woohoo! Love that approach Ruth!

Loving the honesty and the funky carrots

@pauladenisecoutinho2203

Жыл бұрын

Definately love the honesty ..it’s an adventure and love that I feel I’m going through it with someone that’s down to earth❤️

@evabusich-veloso560

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, it explains very graphically my past failures with these two vegetables. My garlic is smaller this year as well….

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Appreciate this so much!

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Yup I'm expecting a more modest garlic haul on Monday of this coming week!

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the support Housnara!!

Cute carrots! The only way you're going to learn is to experiment. I do have to say that your soil needs to be deeper and loose in order to grow bigger carrots. We grew ours in raised beds last year and had a fantastic harvest! They were large straight carrots. 😊 Good luck on your harvest!

Thanks for sharing these results. I love your experiments because the results are so useful for my own gardening experiences.

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure Rae-Ann!! Glad that it was helpful for ya! :D

Just found your channel. The first video I watched was your latest cucumber growing hints video. Liked it so I watched another. Keep the gardening videos coming, you're doing great! I really enjoyed the whole experiment concept.

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Woohoo! Really appreciate this and expect to see more experiment results coming out this week!!

Great learning about transplanting root veggies! TY

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure Linda!!

Try putting them in red solo cups instead of seed cells. It’s a taller container 😊

I'm growing carrots and beets here in the south of Spain and I noticed that carrots take a lot longer to grow than I thought. I mean a _lot_ longer. I start them in pots and then transplant them. Same with beets, they take ages to grow. Best to thin out the groups of 3 or 4 to a single plant, pickle the baby beetroot and then le the remaining plants keep growing into big beets. That's my experience, anyway.

Appreciate your honesty in still showing the harvest, so thank you for sharing! Good experiment. I agree that the carrots have more character 😄-- and better yield than direct sow! Perhaps consider starting them in taller pots, if you can find them. That will give the tap roots just a bit more room. Or . . . dig the hol3 in which you transplant them a little deeper. The beets look great!

Thank you for sharing

Omg, those carrots are so cute! 😍 What a fun experiment! I really enjoyed watching this, made me laugh aloud, lol. I'm planning on growing radish and other vegetables this week but starting to get a little worried about everything, the soil, the light, transplanting or direct sow, rainy season, etc, kinda overwhelming. But after watching some of your experiment video, I feel relaxed. Well, just give it a go, learning by doing. Thanks Jordan! Looking forward to your next fun experiment

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Love it!! Keep your eyes peeled :D

That is so not the result I was expecting! I’ve thought about the transplanting for beets as I love to grow more tops to feed my chickens and in northern bc we have a much later start. I start my carrots in the greenhouse early march in the tubs I’m planting tomatoes much later in. So now I’m going to try the carrot transplant as well! I never thought about transplanting carrots at all! Thanks for your experiment and sharing it. Another experimental gardener

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely Laurenda! Im certainly going to keep on playing around and we'll see how we go!!

Thank you for your information. It explained some things I’ve experienced concerning carrots. I still haven’t grown the carrots 🥕 that I’d like to grow. My direct sow have character too. So I have some in a bucket to see if I can harvest carrots like this shape. 🥕. If businesses-farmers can grow them so should I. Tricia

Just found your channel - love this experiment! I'm going to give this a try. I think I'll try sowing into soil blocks for transplanting. I also love the character of the carrots so much more fun. Thanks!

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Oh do let me know how that goes!! Super interested to hear!!

@juliewolfe7558

Жыл бұрын

@@MindandSoil will do. I just got a soil blocker so it'll be a new experience for me too.

This was an amazing video, both in terms of gardening and mental health. Off to start some carrots! 🥕

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Woot! So glad you enjoyed it :) I have to start mine for the season too!

Jordan, keep up the good work!! 'Failure In The Field' is a classically good move. Without experiments of this nature we can't move the knowledge base towards a good outcome.

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Love this Barbara and couldn't agree more!

Always love your experiments !! 🌞🥕😀

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Angela - keep your eyes peeled for the next one tomorrow!!

@AngelaThompson1961

Жыл бұрын

@@MindandSoil OK!! Will do! Thank you!! 😀

Transplanting beets has always works well for me, but carrots are best direct seeded because of what you said, in that their tap root becomes the carrot and you get wonky carrots. However, if you transplant the carrot as a plug early enough, it can work okay.

Just found this amazing channel 🎉 - well done!! One of the things I’m struggling with is fertilizing schedule and strategy. Do you have any videos that talk about this? Dry vs liquid? Weekly/bi-weekly/monthly etc. keep up the great work!

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Great question! When I transplant my garden babies out into the garden, I do a handful of the worm castings and a cup of the 4-4-4 Superfood and that sets me up really well for the remainder of the growing season. :) Additionally for heavy feeders like tomatoes and peppers you can do a bi-weekly schedule of the liquid fertilizer Kelp Man.

I don’t understand how you only have 50k subs the info you share is absolutely invaluable

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Appreciate that so much! Keep sharing the good word and it'll keep growing! :)

Your video put an idea in my head for my own experiment for a totally different reason. Growing carrots in North Dakota is totally different than in Rhode Island, heavy clay here compared to Rhode Island's woodsy fast draining soil. Yes, the clay does hold water but if you miss watering during a dry spell your carrots are growing in what feels like a brick once used to build an old Parie Suddie and as we know drying out is instant death for carrot seedlings. Maybe a super deep narrow pot to start the seeds? Yes, constantly adding compost materials is slowly helping too.

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Youre reading my mind Jeff! Keep your eyes peeled on our channel - got some interesting ideas bouncing around in my head!

Neat experiment! I plan on trying to transplant carrots right after germinating in micro soil blocks, which I think will allow me to cut off a good chunk of time from waiting on spotty outdoor germination; hoping for a consistent

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Love the sounds of that!!

I found using a fertilizer with less nitrogen stops having wonky carrots, not that anything is wrong with them. They all eat the same. ;D

Can the stalks of carrots and stalks of beets be eaten also

Growing beets in sets yields small beets. You’ll need to thin them to get larger beets. You could, however plant those carrots closer

What temperatures are where you are when you started the plants vs the summer start you planted?

This was fun! Just by chance, I started two containers of carrots... one was a colored breed, one regular. Long story, the color breed I have been thinning and transplanting in with the regular... because there was room (they didn't grow as nicely) so I will have some fun when I harvest in September.... it's colder here, we went through 2 months of sun and now we're seeing early fall weather... fog, mist and rain. My containers are covered to retain heat, but I'm having a number of my crop just not producing or growing! Next year: start earlier indoors, get my greenhouse up and operational.... PS my peas, lettuce and potatoes are doing great! Tomatoes.... not so well!

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

It seems like it has been a chilly year all around! Next year I'll actually be starting a lot of my stuff about 1 month later to not be crunched against cold weather quite as much

Just direct sow as soon as soil can be worked, and cover with frost cloth until ideal temperatures, no need for indoor sowing/transplanting wonky carrots.

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

This was experimental :)

Mad genius let's go !! Wicked smart Jord. We just love this about you. Beet tops are delicious, we know cause that all we get lol Question: were the biggest carrots from the middle of bed? Our biggest garlic were generally from the middle. You got a great harvest, knowledge & experience brother !! And how good did it taste !! Cheers J&C 🌱🥕🌱

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Haha appreciate that! Oooo that's an interesting question and YES those biggest ones definitely were in the middle now that I think about it and I'm definitely going to keep an eye out for this moving forward. Any ideas on how you could get the outside ones growing better?

@clivesconundrumgarden

Жыл бұрын

@@MindandSoil well in raised beds I've noticed in other people's gardens that we watch and ours almost always the smallest "ones" are from the perimeter. Evaporation and transvaperatiom have to be the biggest reasons,,,, right ? Less water, more leaching of nutrients, and probably the soil structure and texture isn't as good ??? As far as growing better, haven't gotten there yet lol Thoughts ?

@gwendyrose8905

Жыл бұрын

@@clivesconundrumgarden To you and Jordan both....if your using the square foot gardening method, what about putting flowers and/or herbs around the perimeter of the beets and carrots? Something that likes a little drier conditions maybe? I've found that putting the same things in several different beds works better than putting a larger space in one bed. So, I'll grow 4 squares of carrots in 3 different beds instead of 12 squares in one bed. Hope that makes sense. :) The flowers and/or herbs could also help bring in beneficials and pollinators, too. ;) ;) Here''s to the experimental gardening clan! :D

@clivesconundrumgarden

Жыл бұрын

@@gwendyrose8905 never occurred to me but that makes a ton of sense. Last year our beds got so dry there was cracks between the wood and soil. Thanks will try this !! Cheers from Victoria BC

I once bought a 3 pack of carrot transplants to see what I would get and the carrots literally grew in knots. It was at least funny.

Some eats the green part and regrow after eating the carrot

Question: Has anyone out there tried the aluminum beds and adding heat tape to the outside to generate a warmer soil? Here is SE Alaska, our season is short but the days are long! Might be something I try next year in a greenhouse... solar generated heat tape.....hmmmm

@MindandSoil

Жыл бұрын

Wendy! Give rocks a try! Stack them as high as you can against your bed (or use them as the actual container). They are amazing conductors of heat so in those nice and long days they'll pull tons of heat in, and then slowly dissipate it over the evening to the soil, artificially keeping the temperature a bit warmer!

It looks to me like you harvested too early.

Your experiments are very interesting and good to know. We all wrestle with what to get started early indoors vs. being patient and waiting to direct sow. Good to see the side by sides, even if the bounty is less than expected. Also, is there a correlation about tubers and what you feed them early? I know your 4-4-4 is what you are selling, but maybe tubers could use a little different dose of something up front! Inquiring minds want to know. Keep that in your equation. 4-4-4 is not the answer for everything all the time. Just sayin. Good stuff though! I like and and subscribed. Keep up the great side by sides. Interesting stuff.

@380webdesigns8

10 ай бұрын

P.S.- I'm into the organic gardening and living soil side of things. Maybe your experiments could include adding worms, and microbiological innoculants into your grows. I would love to see side by side in that regard. Thanks for your sharing!

@MindandSoil

10 ай бұрын

Happy to hear! Thanks for watching :)

Can he still eat it all?

Cool! I'm trying them in toilet paper rolls, will direct transplant, see how it goes?

both crops needed more time...u pulled them too early..

Thank you for your unselfishness

Awesome! Blessings to everyone, if you haven't yet repented and accepted christ Jesus as your lord and savior, please do so before it's too late its not God's will for none to perish. Acts 2vs 38 John 3vs 16 Romans 10 vs 13

thinning out my carrots, I always make my best attempts to save the thinned seedlings, usually they show up pretty derpy, but hey in my opinion a harvest is a harvest ;)

@MindandSoil

9 ай бұрын

Totally agree! Thanks for watching :)

@Mantras-and-Mystics

2 ай бұрын

Will be trying that myself this year! Don't like wasting baby carrots. 🎉

Really cool experiment 🧪!