Notes
Early Nantes for first bunches. Sweeter, shorter keeper than Bolero. Use for June and October bunches; leave Bolero for storage.
Cultivars / Root crops
Yaya Nantes
Carrot · Daucus carota subsp. sativus
DTM
56 d
70 d occupancy · hardy
Rows
5
1 in in-row
Density
60
plants / bed-ft
Yield
2.5
bunches / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$7.88
$3.50 / bunch
Propagation
- Method
- Direct seed
- Cell size
- —
- Nursery lead
- direct only
- Germination
- 10 d
- Germ temp
- 45°F – 85°F (opt 72°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
- 56 d
- Holding
- 14 d
- Occupancy
- 70 d
- Multicut
- no
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1.1
- Frost hardiness
- Hardy
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- bunch
- Units / bed-ft
- 2.5
- Avg unit wt
- 0.7 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 1.8 lb
- Cull rate
- 10%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $2.00 / $3.50
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
- 0.8 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.35 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 1.8 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.4 / 0.2 / 0.9 lb
- Family
- Apiaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-03-04 → 2026-11-10
- First greenhouse
- —
- First harvest
- 2026-04-29
- Successions that fit
- 5 · every 14 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 31 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 3530 seeds · 3000 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $225.00 / $393.75
Companions
lettuce · onion · radish
Avoid
dill