Smooth and Tender Carrots Seeds — Daucus carota

Smooth and Tender Carrots

These carrots (Daucus carota) are loved for their sweet flavour, tender texture, and smooth orange roots. Their slender, cylindrical shape and rounded tips make them a lovely choice for everyday kitchen use, whether pulled young for a fresh snack or left to size up for cooking.

These are seeds we’ve collected ourselves, packed in generous quantities for gardeners who enjoy growing a useful crop for the kitchen. There’s something especially satisfying about pulling a fresh bunch, washing them off, and bringing them straight to the chopping board.

Why Gardeners Love Them

• 🥕 Sweet, tender roots — delicious raw, steamed, or roasted
• 🌿 Classic type carrot — smooth orange roots with a slender shape and blunt tips
• 🍽️ Versatile kitchen favourite — lovely for salads, lunchboxes, and family meals
• 🌱 Generous packet — approximately 1000 seeds for successive sowings
• ☀️ Best sown directly — no transplanting needed

Growing Tips for New Zealand

Sow directly into a sunny position from spring through late summer, extending into early autumn in milder regions. Prepare a fine, loose seedbed and remove stones so the roots have room to develop. Avoid freshly manured soil, which can encourage forked roots.

Sow thinly, approximately 5 mm deep, in rows about 20–30 cm apart. Keep the surface consistently moist until seedlings emerge; carrots can take around 10–21 days to germinate, depending on soil temperature and conditions. Do not let the seedbed dry out or form a hard crust.

Thin seedlings to approximately 3–5 cm apart. Water evenly as roots develop, and keep weeds down while plants are small. Sow small batches every few weeks during suitable weather for a longer harvest.

Pull young for baby carrots or allow roots to reach your preferred size. Harvest timing varies with season and growing conditions; check a few roots rather than relying on the leafy tops alone. Loosen the soil gently before lifting to avoid snapping the roots.

What’s in the Packet

Each packet contains approximately 500 Touchon carrot seeds (Daucus carota), collected by Chbotanics, with sowing and growing instructions included.

📄 Want to go even deeper? The CHBotanics Propagation from Seeds Manual — Professional Edition — a comprehensive digital PDF covering sowing times, germination, spacing, and much more across dozens of flower and vegetable species, is available as an instant download. 🌱😊