Notes
Extra-early Nantes. Tender, not for storage.
Cultivars / Root crops
Mokum
Carrot · Daucus carota subsp. sativus
DTM
54 d
75 d occupancy · hardy
Rows
5
1 in in-row
Density
60
plants / bed-ft
Yield
2.2
lb / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$5.32
$2.75 / lb
Propagation
- Method
- Direct seed
- Cell size
- —
- Nursery lead
- direct only
- Germination
- 12 d
- Germ temp
- 45°F – 85°F (opt 75°F)
- Seed spacing
- ¾ in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 5
- In-row
- 1 in
- Seed spacing
- ¾ in
- Plants / linear ft
- 60
- Plants / 50 ft
- 3000
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 54 d
- Holding
- 21 d
- Occupancy
- 75 d
- Multicut
- no
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1.12
- Frost hardiness
- Hardy
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- lb
- Units / bed-ft
- 2.2
- Avg unit wt
- 1 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 2.2 lb
- Cull rate
- 12%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $1.50 / $2.75
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 2
- Emitter spacing
- 8 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.42
- Weekly water
- 0.9 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 63
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 70.1
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Light
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 0.9 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.4 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 2.2 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.5 / 0.2 / 1.1 lb
- Family
- Apiaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-03-04 → 2026-11-10
- First greenhouse
- —
- First harvest
- 2026-04-27
- Successions that fit
- 4 · every 21 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 26 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 3530 seeds · 3000 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $145.20 / $266.20
Companions
lettuce · onion · radish · pea
Avoid
dill · parsnip