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Old 20-02-2017, 11:00 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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On 19 Feb 2017 13:09, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:
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Judith in England wrote:


How are they grown : don't they have to bother about carrot root fly?


Fleece.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Whenever we have tried to use fleece over carrots we get nil
germination. We use an old water tank so they are well above the
ground (the fly are lazy) which also allows us to use sandy open
compost which carrots like.

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Bob Hobden
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