How to grow veggies that are difficult to germinate and grow.

Good morning comrades! I'm having trouble growing carrots and rhubarb this year due to the conditions so far. I've tried to grow carrots in the ground from seed and rhubarb in my greenhouse, but failed to pop up as of late. How can I grow my rhubarbs and carrots better from a germination standpoint? Carrots are among the most difficult to germinate as well as some others. How can we produce more of the most difficult crops from our gardens and greenhouses? Please reach me on this forum so you all can show me to plant my rhubarb and carrots right. Take care!

Carrots take a long time to germinate, about two to three weeks, and they need to have steady moisture while germinating. Covering them with something (a row cover) and checking them every day so they wont dry up is important.

Good luck!

It's May and is there still time to grow carrots for food this year? Should I be better off growing them in my greenhouse or grow them in my garden when conditions are cooler? And what about for rhubarb?

Carol deppe has a great trick for germinating carrot seeds that I've used a number of times since I learned it.

Mix your carrot seeds with some moist potting soil and put it in a jar. Keep the jar out of direct sunlight and open the top every day to let air in. This will keep the seeds evenly moist so they can germinate.

Once you see the seeds sprouting, you can sprinkle the potting soil in the garden and cover very lighlty with more soil.

The germination is the hard part, so once the sprouted seeds are in the garden, you should be good...as long as you can avoid all the usual garden disasters.

How I get the rhubarb to sprout? I received some 100 year old ones and they haven't gone as well as they should. How I get old seeds to sprout again?