CARROT-NANTES
$3.00
SEEDS PER PACK: 325
In stock
Carota Sativa
CARROT-NANTES has a fine-grained bright orange color & nearly coreless. Great flavor, sweet & crunchy. Excellent for freezing and juicing. Easy to grow & full of vitamins. Nantes carrots are named after the city of Nantes, the largest & most important city in Brittany. This cylindrical cultivar was developed sometime in the late 1800s & is quite popular in Europe because it’s sweeter & tastier than regular carrots, the slim, tubular, orange roots are 17cm long, 4 cm thick. It’s been proven tops for yield, delicious flavor & wide adaptability. Has very think skin so does not need peeling. Just scrubbing. Today there are more than a half-dozen varieties of carrots that specifically bear the Nantes name, but more generally Nantes has come to represent a quite large class of medium-sized cylindrical carrots rounded at both the top and tip. Stores well. Keep moist but NOT wet.
| Season of Interest | Spring |
|---|---|
| Temperature Range (°C) | 23 Day, 12 Night |
| Annual / Perennial / Biennial | Perennial grown as Annual |
| Full Sun / Part Sun / Shade | Full Sun |
| Sow Direct / Raise Seedlings | Sow Direct |
| Soil | Loose well drained sandy loam |
| pH | 5 – 7.5 |
| Soil Temperature (°C) | 4 -18 |
| Seed Preparation | Soak Seeds |
| Harvest Time (Days) | 70 - 120 Late Summer |
| Plant Height (cm) | 20 - 30 |
| Frost Hardy / Tender | Half Hardy |
| Sowing Depth (mm) | 4 - 6 |
| Plant Spacing (cm) | 3 - 8 |
| Row spacing (cm) | 25 - 30 |
| Watering | Heavy water once a week |
| Germination Time (Days) | 10 - 21 |
| Good Companion Plants | Chives, Leeks, Legumes, Onions, Tomatoes, Nasturtiums, Radishes, Rosemary, Parsley, Mint and Sage. |
| Bad Companion Plants | Tomatoes. Corn, Squash, Parsnips, Dill, Melon and Fennel |
