Peter James wrote:

wrote:

snippped

Eeek! Can my carrots be saved before they take hold, or is it too
late, the first ominous signs are starting to appear, any sprays work?
Likewise my parsnips?
LOL at the aphids red herring.

Thank you anyway, not good news!

A trick that seemed fairly effective in my case, was to cover and mulch
the growing carrots with lawn clipppings. The theroy is that the fly
can't find the crop to lay eggs in under the grass clippings. It did
partly work in my case last year. This year I'm growng them in
containers 2' above ground level, and as a comparison, two rows at
ground level using grass clippings as a mulch.

Peter
I should have said that there is an interesting site at :

http://www.dgsgardening.btinternet.co.uk/carrotrf.htm
that discusses carrot fly, and an equally interesting report at:

http://aenews.wsu.edu
the latter is an American agricultural report, but interesting all the
same. Look for March 2003 report number 203

Peter

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