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Old 22-07-2011, 11:38 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Carrots - my experiment

harry wrote in
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You might try sowing very thinly and not thinning the seedlings.
The theory is that the smell when you pull them up attracts the carrot
flies. Seems to work for me.


harry,
I have sowed them as thinly as possible in both cases and have not thinned
out any of them.

Baz