Vegetable / Shoulder season
Danvers 126 Carrot
Main-season roots for raised beds and deep containers.
Classic sweet carrot flavor with strong storage quality.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 70
- Germination temperature
- 45-85F
- Seed depth
- 0.25 inches
- Spacing
- 2 inches
- Row spacing
- 12 inches
- Start method
- Direct sow
Frost-date timing
- Direct sow
- 21 days before last frost
- Fall planting
- 10 weeks before first frost
- Succession interval
- repeat every 21 days
Action plan
- Can I plant this now?
- Use your local last-frost, first-frost, and soil-temperature checks before treating this crop as plantable today.
- Start indoors or direct sow?
- Direct sow into the final bed when the soil temperature, seed depth, and moisture are ready.
- How much space?
- 2 inches in-row spacing, 12 inches between rows, and 0.25 inch seed depth.
- Best companions?
- Use crop-family rotation first, then pair with compatible timing, spacing, and canopy size rather than relying on a simple companion chart.
- Common failure modes?
- Do not transplant carrots; disturbed roots fork. Keep the seedbed constantly moist until germination. Deep, loose, stone-free soil.
Is it still worth sowing this year?
Every region this site covers (Texas, North Florida, Central Maryland, New York City and York County, PA) publishes a carrot planting window, so the answer for this variety is already dated. No other region is covered yet.
- What Texas gardeners can still sow, Danvers 126 Carrot included AgriLife lists carrot for Texas (AgriLife Region III); the page measures that window against this variety's 70 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- North Florida sow-by date for Danvers 126 Carrot UF/IFAS lists carrot for North Florida; the page measures that window against this variety's 70 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- What Central Maryland gardeners can still sow, Danvers 126 Carrot included UMD Extension lists carrot for Central Maryland; the page measures that window against this variety's 70 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- New York City sow-by date for Danvers 126 Carrot Cornell CCE lists carrot for the New York City area; the page measures that window against this variety's 70 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- What York County, PA gardeners can still sow, Danvers 126 Carrot included Penn State Extension lists carrot for York County, Pennsylvania; the page measures that window against this variety's 70 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Keep the seedbed constantly moist until germination.
- Soil
- Deep, loose, stone-free soil.
- Watch
- Do not transplant carrots; disturbed roots fork.
- roots
- storage
- fall
- deep-container
Browse context
- Vegetable Catalog Category collection
- Carrot Family Rotation and family context
- Shoulder Season Seeds Season collection
- Direct Sow Seeds Start-method collection
- Container-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- Succession Sowing Seeds Practical trait collection
- Fall-Planting Seeds Practical trait collection
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Source: CSU vegetable planting guide