I've used some black cricket screen netting that was being thrown away at Cricket a few years back (50 meters of it!!). Just as good are old net curtains.
If you buy rolls of carrot fly screening, they can cost £30 ore more !!
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Once you start fiddling with your carrots, especially when weeding and thinning out, the Fly catch the whiff and in they come.
Good news is they fly low and fairly horizontal, so a good screen around prevents them laying their eggs on your plants.
(Growing Carrots in amongst Onions helps as well).
Any more tips on Carrot Fly ?
Richard
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I plant members of the onion family in rows either side of my rows carrots and have never had a problem with carrot fly. The idea is that they can't smell the carrots over the smell of the onions Dom
Another theory is that they fly at or below 18" so if you grow your carrots in a container above that height they don't home in on them. Only tried once to grow them and not successfully - tiny, tiny bitesized blips - so couldn't tell you if this works or not.
When thinning out, avoid crushing the leaves and do it in the evening when carrot fly are less active then water to dampen off any lingering scent. Don't forget to take the thinnings away so that they don't attract the carrot fly.
Richard wrote:I've used some black cricket screen netting that was being thrown away at Cricket a few years back (50 meters of it!!). Just as good are old net curtains.
If you buy rolls of carrot fly screening, they can cost £30 ore more !!
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Once you start fiddling with your carrots, especially when weeding and thinning out, the Fly catch the whiff and in they come.
Good news is they fly low and fairly horizontal, so a good screen around prevents them laying their eggs on your plants.
(Growing Carrots in amongst Onions helps as well).
Any more tips on Carrot Fly ?
I do tend to use enviromesh as they cant get through it ,as you say Richard can be expensive but lasts for 10 years or more.
That's right, best in the evening as well - the flies have gone to sleep.
I didn't net mine for a few years and didn't have a problem, lucky I guess, but putting them amongst the Onions, Chives or Garlic will reduce the risk greatly.
Richard
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