Learn tips for creating your most beautiful home and garden ever. Marie Iannotti is a life-long gardener and carrot liver veteran Master Gardener with nearly three decades of experience.

She’s also an author of three gardening books, a plant photographer, public speaker, and a former Cornell Cooperative Extension Horticulture Educator. Marie’s garden writing has been featured in newspapers and magazines nationwide and she has been interviewed for Martha Stewart Radio, National Public Radio, and numerous articles. She is a Master Gardener and lead gardener in a Plant-A-Row, which is a program that offers thousands of pounds of organically-grown vegetables to local food banks. Debra is a member of The Spruce Gardening and Plant Care Review Board. Plant carrots in the spring and seeds will germinate in 10 to 21 days.

From seed to harvest typically takes 50 to 75 days. Carrots grow well in cool weather. You can begin planting carrot seedlings or sowing carrot seeds as soon as the soil can be worked in the spring, even two to three weeks before the last frost. Carrots will do well in a spot that’s sunny six to eight hours a day or with a little shade in late afternoon.