🥕🌼🌿 Karlena Carrot Seeds (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) – 1000 Seeds – Smooth, Cylindrical Carrots for Long-Season Harvests

Description:

🌿 Latin Name: Daucus carota subsp. sativus
🥕 Common Name: Karlena Carrot
📦 Quantity: 1000 seeds
🌱 Type: Hybrid, open-pollinated, main-season carrot

The Karlena Carrot is a premium-quality, smooth-skinned variety known for its uniform cylindrical roots, deep orange color, and excellent storage capability. This dependable, sweet-flavored carrot performs exceptionally well in light to medium soil types, producing long, straight roots perfect for fresh eating, juicing, or long-term storage.

With high resistance to splitting and disease, Karlena is a top choice for both home gardeners and market growers.

🌞 Sowing Time:

• Spring Planting: 2–4 weeks before the last frost

• Fall Harvest: Sow midsummer for late-season crops

• Succession Planting: Every 2–3 weeks for a continuous supply

🪴 Growing Instructions:

• Sowing Depth: 0.5 cm (1/4 inch)

• Seed Spacing: Thin to 3–5 cm (1–2 inches) apart

• Row Spacing: 25–30 cm (10–12 inches)

• Germination Temperature: 10–24°C (50–75°F)

• Germination Time: 10–20 days

• Sunlight: Full sun preferred

• Watering: Keep soil evenly moist; avoid crusting to ensure emergence

🌱 Soil & Conditions:

• Soil Type: Light, well-draining sandy or loamy soil

• Soil Depth: Minimum 25–30 cm (10–12 inches)

• Soil pH: 6.0–6.8

• Fertilizer: Use low nitrogen, high potassium/phosphorus for optimal root growth

• Climate: Grows best in cool to mild temperatures; avoid planting in extreme heat

🧑🌾 Usage:

• Perfect for fresh eating, grating, juicing, roasting, and storage

• Ideal for making carrot juice due to high sugar content

• Holds flavor and texture well in cold storage

• Smooth and uniform – excellent for slicing and culinary use

🥕 Plant Characteristics:

• Root Shape: Long, cylindrical, blunt tips

• Root Length: 18–20 cm (7–8 inches)

• Color: Deep orange, both interior and exterior

• Texture: Fine-grained and tender

• Flavor: Sweet, mild, and aromatic

• Days to Maturity: 70–80 days

• Storage Quality: Excellent – maintains texture and flavor for months

🐝 Pollination & Companions:

• Pollination: Biennial for seed, annual root crop

• Good Companions: Leeks, onions, tomatoes, radishes, marigolds

• Avoid Planting Near: Dill, fennel, parsnips (can affect flavor and growth)

Each package contains 5 g of Karlena carrot seeds which is about 1000 Seeds.

Daucus carota