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Carrot problems
The carrots on the neighbouring allotment to mine are systematically
being wiped out by something or other, first the foliage gradually goes yellow with a hint of reddy-brown around the edges on some plants, then the whole lot wilts and collapses. There are a few very small aphid type bugs on the foliage, but the roots don't show any signs of anything untoward,any ideas? Here's a less than brilliant photo if it helps. Half of his row of carrots hardly got going after germination and are now well gone, but the previously very healthy other half of the row is about to go the same way. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...A/DSC02038.jpg |
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Carrot problems
wrote in message ... The carrots on the neighbouring allotment to mine are systematically being wiped out by something or other, first the foliage gradually goes yellow with a hint of reddy-brown around the edges on some plants, then the whole lot wilts and collapses. There are a few very small aphid type bugs on the foliage, but the roots don't show any signs of anything untoward,any ideas? Here's a less than brilliant photo if it helps. Half of his row of carrots hardly got going after germination and are now well gone, but the previously very healthy other half of the row is about to go the same way. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...A/DSC02038.jpg That's carrot fly although you should be able to see root damage as well. I think the aphids are a red herring sent in by the carrot fly to put you off the scent. Best to grow carrots them in a raised compartment about two feet or more off the ground as the carrot fly is mainly a low level critter; or cover in fleece. You can see the same damage on parsley and this year my ground level parsnips appear to have been affected. -- Rowdens Reservoir Allotments Association www.rraa.moonfruit.com Feed the soil, save the planet |
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On Jun 18, 6:32�pm, "Robert \(Plymouth\)"
wrote: wrote in message ... The carrots on the neighbouring allotment to mine are systematically being wiped out by something or other, first the foliage gradually goes yellow with a hint of reddy-brown around the edges on some plants, then the whole lot �wilts and collapses. There are a few very small aphid type bugs on the foliage, but the roots don't show any signs of anything untoward,any ideas? Here's a less than brilliant photo if it helps. Half of his row of carrots hardly got going after germination and are now well gone, but the previously very healthy other half of the row is about to go the same way. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...A/DSC02038.jpg That's carrot fly although you should be able to see root damage as well. I think the aphids are a red herring sent in by the carrot fly to put you off the scent. Best to grow carrots them in a raised compartment about two feet or more off the ground as the carrot fly is mainly a low level critter; or cover in fleece. You can see the same damage on parsley and this year my ground level parsnips appear to have been affected. -- Rowdens Reservoir Allotments Associationwww.rraa.moonfruit.com Feed the soil, save the planet 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! |
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wrote in message ... On Jun 18, 6:32�pm, "Robert \(Plymouth\)" wrote: wrote in message ... The carrots on the neighbouring allotment to mine are systematically being wiped out by something or other, first the foliage gradually goes yellow with a hint of reddy-brown around the edges on some plants, then the whole lot �wilts and collapses. There are a few very small aphid type bugs on the foliage, but the roots don't show any signs of anything untoward,any ideas? Here's a less than brilliant photo if it helps. Half of his row of carrots hardly got going after germination and are now well gone, but the previously very healthy other half of the row is about to go the same way. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...A/DSC02038.jpg That's carrot fly although you should be able to see root damage as well. I think the aphids are a red herring sent in by the carrot fly to put you off the scent. Best to grow carrots them in a raised compartment about two feet or more off the ground as the carrot fly is mainly a low level critter; or cover in fleece. You can see the same damage on parsley and this year my ground level parsnips appear to have been affected. -- Rowdens Reservoir Allotments Associationwww.rraa.moonfruit.com Feed the soil, save the planet 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! Can't really do much once they're in although it doesn't always mean that you can't use the carrot, depends how badly it's affected. Another tip is to sow thinly thus avoiding thinning out seedlings which gives off the carrot smell which the fly is supposed to be able to detect miles away. Quite how they arrived at that idea I can't imagine but you get the drift of it, avoid disturbing the leaves as much as possible. |
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On Jun 18, 8:29Â*pm, "Robert \(Plymouth\)"
wrote: wrote in message ... On Jun 18, 6:32�pm, "Robert \(Plymouth\)" wrote: wrote in message .... The carrots on the neighbouring allotment to mine are systematically being wiped out by something or other, first the foliage gradually goes yellow with a hint of reddy-brown around the edges on some plants, then the whole lot �wilts and collapses. There are a few very small aphid type bugs on the foliage, but the roots don't show any signs of anything untoward,any ideas? Here's a less than brilliant photo if it helps. Half of his row of carrots hardly got going after germination and are now well gone, but the previously very healthy other half of the row is about to go the same way. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...A/DSC02038.jpg That's carrot fly although you should be able to see root damage as well. I think the aphids are a red herring sent in by the carrot fly to put you off the scent. Best to grow carrots them in a raised compartment about two feet or more off the ground as the carrot fly is mainly a low level critter; or cover in fleece. You can see the same damage on parsley and this year my ground level parsnips appear to have been affected. -- Rowdens Reservoir Allotments Associationwww.rraa.moonfruit.com Feed the soil, save the planet 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! Can't really do much once they're in although it doesn't always mean that you can't use the carrot, depends how badly it's affected. Another tip is to sow thinly thus avoiding thinning out seedlings which gives off the carrot smell which the fly is supposed to be able to detect miles away. Quite how they arrived at that idea I can't imagine but you get the drift of it, avoid disturbing the leaves as much as possible.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - The trouble started before any thinning took place, the whole row of carrot seed germinated and came through no problem, but the problem end didn't grow at the same rate as the rest of the row, adjacent parsnips and beetroot similarly haven't come on as well like the carrots, it's only in the last week or two that the slow growing carrots have developed the aforementioned symptoms and died a death. The whole plot is inside a walled garden that hasn't been cultivated in a good 20 years, so I'm wondering how the pests got in.? Another question just out of curiosity, the flower buds on my early potatoes dried up before even getting close to being noticeable, any reason. The quality of the spuds hasn't been affected, maybe it's been dry here, but all my neighbours pots flowered no problem. Thanks again |
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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 -- He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled. P.G. Wodehouse 1881 -1975 |
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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 -- He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled. P.G. Wodehouse 1881 -1975 |
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