Root vegetables are enjoyable to grow because you never quite know what you’re going to get—some carrots can create some pretty unique shapes as they mature!
Thyme you plant in your carrot bed a few weeks before you plant the carrot seeds will draw damsel bugs, which eat carrot fly larvae and cutworms.
Cutworms can completely destroy carrot seedlings in a single night.
Carrot flies use their sense of smell to locate carrots, but you can prevent them from doing so by surrounding your carrot patch with a chive hedge.
Lacewing larvae ferociously devour aphids. You can entice adult lacewings to your carrot patch by planting carrots alongside cosmos.
By planting radishes a short distance apart, you can also use them as a trap crop. Then, to draw a variety of other beneficial insects to your garden, let the radishes bloom.