Is there still time to plant carrots and peas this year?

Good evening friends! I wanna find out if there's still time to plant carrots and peas even if we're into the summer. I'd like to grow them for soup and stuff. How can we help our carrots and peas combat the dreadful summer heat in order for us to gain a good harvest? Please shoot back on this forum. Adios!

Absolutely! Get them in the ground right away.

Carrots can grow well in warm weather, if the seeds remain damp enough to germinate.

Peas grow best in cool weather. Depending on location, they may produce something as a fall crop.

My seed carrot patch is starting to dry down and carrots is one of the so-called biannual crops that I started planting at the same time it naturally plants itself. Leaving them to self-seed and come up on their own doesn't work though because they won't sprout until it rains and if they do sprout will likely die from drying out as small seedlings soon after.

I started prepping a spot for them yesterday, it's about three feet by fifteen feet. It's been hot and dry here to the point I had difficulty gathering enough weeds and stuff to mulch it all good. I had to gather some green tree leaves to have enough but got a nice cover over it with clear rows about two inches wide and a foot apart for the seeds. I put 250 gallons of water on it at intervals through the day so that it all of it soaked in without any running off into the paths.

Seeds are stirred up in a mix of dry river sand and compost, after another watering today, I'll sprinkle that in the rows and lightly tamp it down. The heat and sun are such that the surface will dry back out quickly so I'll have to keep watering until they sprout and get established but once they are two or three inches tall, they should be able to fend for themselves pretty well and we can have carrots this fall. I'll wait a little while and do the same thing for next year's seed patch.

That has worked pretty good for carrots, I wouldn't even consider it with peas.

You mean is it best off to plant peas earlier than the carrots which can tolerate better in the summer heat than them?

Peas are traditionally planted "as early as the soil can be worked". Here in western Oregon, peas are planted from late February till about mid April for a May- June harvest. Peas don't like hot, dry weather. Planting now would probably be a mistake, unless you live in a place like Alaska that has cool summers. There is another window for peas in the fall, but not many people here plant them then.

Carrots are planted here in western Oregon from March till about mid- July. The seeds are hard to germinate when the weather gets hot, so I try to plant mine during a cool, wet period before June 1st. If it does gets sunny and warm, I  water the bed 2-3 times a day and use cardboard sheeting to shade the bed and keep the surface moist. Carrots planted now will be ready for a fall/winter harvest. There is a also an overwintering variety in Oregon named Merida that can be planted in September when things cool off and the rains return, but not many folks plant this variety.

Here is a spring planting chart from Territorial Seed Company for Pacific Northwest gardeners:

https://territorialseed.com/blogs/spring-growing-guides/spring-growing-chart

Blake, please let us know where you live so we can be of more help. Good luck!

To me the answer to the question would be are there enough days left to get the carrots and peas to harvest.

Knowing your USDA zone would also be helpful when giving answers.

I have not had good luck growing carrots so I ask Mr Google and the basic answer is that it takes carrots 60 to 80 days to harvest.

The seed packet will give a better answer based on the variety.

Also carrots need lots of waters so that is another determining factor.