Carrot Fly

[Reweed]

AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AARRGGHH!!!!

After many hours seiving soil and lovingly preparing a carrot bed, I pulled some of my baby carriots for my dinner.....

Destroyed.... all of them.... eaten to death my awful maggots.

To say i'm a bit upset is an understatement.... I pulled about 20 and ate 1, then rest were all ruined.... the one I ate... was horrible.

I went and bought a bag instead... cost £1... bargain.

[hiyatim]

GUTTED!!!

i feel your pain mate. what a pity. Did u have a fine net over them? i know you should only need it if transplanting as the females are attracted to the leaves u bruise when doing so but the way i figure is if a cat or something steps on one then the bruise smell is released.

[Kimby]

Ouch - that's not good and I'm sorry to hear that your carrots have been so badly treated by nature. Did you companion plant or was it just all carrots?

[Reweed]

just carrots. never tried companion planting, figured it was all a load of rubbish.

[Kimby]

It's all trial and error I guess (it's my first year so trusting some of the stuff I've read!) I planted mine between rows of onions which are meant to mask the carrot smell and stop the fly from catching a whiff of it

Have also planted some in pots in the greenhouse - kept them on the work bench as the fly don't go over a certain height. They're doing great (although I did plant a small variety so if you wanted huge carrots then that wouldn't work for ya!)

[0rco!]

We plant our carrots and leeks next to each other so we can cover them both with enviromesh. This keeps both the carrot fly and leek moth out - you just have make sure you water regularly when it's hot as it can get really dried out.