carrot fly

[weedgrower]

what month do carrot fly become active and when is the best time to thin your carrots to avoid the fly, morning or evening

[weedgrower]

[glow777]

evening and water after for thinning

and carrot fly have two hatches May/June and August. However in warm springs/summers they can have 3 hatches. God knows what will happen this year with the strange weather

[tim]

Fleece & forget!

[RobinOfTheHood]

That's my plan!

[Marymary]

Fleece & forget!

Fleece or mesh Tim?   ;D ;D

[tim]

Here we go again!!

And here's more power to Glowy's bow......

Why can I not post this in readable form? It comes over this size whatever I choose.

[glow777]

try increasing the scan size to 200% of the original.

When you are looking at it before posting on your PC you may be looking at a zoomed in version -

or wherever you are loading the pictures to may be automatically resizing the images for you.

G

BTW never knew they'd go for celery and parsley. We have C Fly bad but they only go for carrots even if parsnips are close by

[tim]

So far as I can see, it's A4A limiting the size?

Does this work??  http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v164/photo04/veg/flyLarge.jpg

Yes!!

[glow777]

probably resizing because of the length have you thought about 1/2 ing and stitching ;)

[tim]

Oooh, hi-tech!!

[Cat]

Tim - love your no nonsense replies  ;)

I have coverd my containers with fleece and pegged the sides.

Is it right that the water should drain through the fleece?

Cat

[tim]

One problem - a drizzle is just soaked up by the fleece, so keep an eye on it.

[finchy]

Silly question, but with the fleece, how do the seedlings grown and get light?

Do you raise it up on pegs?

[wavy]

Keep the fleece fairly loose.
You would be supprised how strong those little carrots are, they will push up the fleece.

[tim]

Light's no problem.

Grow? As said - allow an 8" or so 'tuck' all around. For brassica it has to be up to 4 FEET!!