This work was carried out to verify the viability of producing non-processed baby carrots out of different carrot cultivars available in Brazil for summer and winter copping, when planted in different spacing between lines. Cultivars Forto and Nantes were used for winter copping, while cultivars Brasilia and Carandaí were used in summer. Lines were 10, 15, and 20 cm apart. Distance between plants was 2 to 3 cm. The experiment was designed in completely randomized blocks, in a factorial scheme (3 x 2) with four replications. Results indicated t ha-1 when lines were kept 10 cm apart, the baby carrot yield reached the most uniform distribution in commercial root length classes (4 to 6 cm; 6 to 8 cm and; > 8 cm). During summer, cultivar Brasilia yielded significantly more baby carrots than cultivar Carandaí. In winter, the tested cultivars were equivalent. A natural follow-up to this work is the investigation of the nutritional value and diameter of non-processed baby carrots.
Daucus carota; cultivar; spacing; babycarrot; yield; quality
