I buy anything when I have a garden bed ready to rollYou buy carrot starts? Crazy. This is one of the only veggies I would only direct sow. I've seen people do the paper towel method for germinating just so they can get perfect spacing, but I just broadcast sow.
carrot starts are two weeks ahead of sowed seeds so I spend a couple bucks...or at least I used to
My lady said those days are over because the carrots end up shaped like a "U" or a "J" because the root never goes in there vertical as I say