Topic: Fleeced carrots

[star]

I just do not BELIEVE it!! I covered the carrots with very fine netting and noticed after a month  lots of flies under it. All the sides were very well dug into the soil and there are no holes in the netting. The mesh is much too fine to let them in......they couldnt get out.


How the h*ll did they get in? Has this ever happened to anyone else?

[betula]

Could the maggots have already been in the soil? :)

[cambourne7]

Its possible that the eggs were already in the soil, i have not bothered with covering my carrots instead i have planted them with leeks and onions.

[star]

I did wonder, but what would they have fed on? The bed was empty over winter......its got me stumped.

[saddad]

Empty soil is anything but Star..... at the minibeast level!!
 :-\

[star]

So very true Saddad, I hope they were anything but carrot fly :(.

Im sure i will find out soon enough, I have left the cover off now and chopped up some old tough garlic along the rows. Will replace the garlic every couple of weeks