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CARROTS— HOW TO SOW AND GROW THEM 
A NY soil will grow good carrots. While the roots will 
be more shapely and smoother in a light soil of 
sandy nature, they are generally of better color and 
firmer texture when grown on clay soils. 
Seeds should be sown as early in the spring as the 
soil can be dug and raked, in rows eighteen inches to two 
feet apart. Cover them about half inch in light soil, less 
in heavy clay. It generally takes ten days to two weeks 
for the seedlings to appear. Because the seedlings are 
very delicate and often find it difficult to break the soil’s 
crust, experienced gardeners sometimes sow spinach 
seeds at the same time in the same rows with the carrots. 
The spinach will be harvested before carrots develop. 
When the seedlings become three to four inches tall 
(see illustration) thin out the early small sorts to stand 
about two inches, the larger, later kinds about four inches 
apart in the row. Frequent and thorough hoeing is 
essential to growing good carrots. 
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