5. To Prune or Not to Prune
So… it makes sense that your carrots will want the room to grow… lots of room to spread their new-found roots… But, there is a theory that the more you cut and pull… the more you are releasing the beautiful fragrant aroma of carrot into the air for the dreaded carrot loving fly to find and love for its newfound home.
So… I would recommend, if you are growing inside, have at it… if you are growing outside… I would simply try to space your seeds well when you are planting initially… if you start having real problems with this, then you can try pruning when you uncover the plants outdoors to water them.
Then recover before too much time passes, ideally don’t leave them uncovered for more than fifteen minutes. Nature can be a bit of a reasoning process sometimes when it comes to these things.