Not a veggie person, but as far as I could tell, he recovered the carrots
with earth for the first x months until carrot fly had stopped laying eggs!

"Stephen Howard" wrote in message
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On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:51:34 +0100, "John Towill"
wrote:

Like everyone I found it great, I was especially interested in the chap
that
kept the dreaded carrot fly at bay, but unfortunately I could not quite
understand his method! Oh well!
Cheers

As far as I could tell it involved earthing up the carrots.
I would imagine that this increases the distance between the top of
the soil and the top of the carrot's root - and perhaps this prevents
the carrot fly's larvae from getting at the root.

I get the feeling that it can't be that simple though... surely not!

Regards,



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