If you grow your own carrots at home, are you also growing carrots from carrot tops? This concept of regrowing crops from scraps is easy and quick, and means you can get a sometimes second crop from ...

On top of that, carrot greens can potentially produce new carrot seeds, saving you money at planting time and helping you preserve heirloom carrot varieties. Once you cut the leafy top off the ...

Growing carrots seem simple to any farmer ... If you fail to harvest and leave the carrots in the ground, the tops will flower and produce seeds in the next year. Store only the best, undamaged ...

Carrots and parsnips grow best in light, sandy soil so if your soil is heavy clay, stony, chalky or doesn't drain particularly well, concentrate on the maincrop, short-root types which cope better ...

Marigolds emit a strong odour that will repel greenfly and blackfly. Grow sage with carrots or plants in the cabbage family to ward off pests. Both have strong scents that drive away each other's ...