carrot root fly devastation

[els]

I just lost 3 rows of beautiful, successively sown carrots to little white maggots- which i can only assume is the dreaded carrot root fly. It was very upsetting .

I've read lots about making barriers and fences to stop the flys getting to the plants but don't know which method to try first... any ideas?

[oldie]

I have a piece of fleece 28" high 6 metres long attached to stakes which I erect around my 2x1 metre bed. When finished I can roll it up to re-use.

[SarzWix]

My entire carrot bed is covered in Enviromesh over cloche hoops, mainly because that's what I had in the shed. I won't know for sure that it's worked for a while yet - I was late sowing carrots this year.

[daffydill]

I have a piece of fleece 28" high 6 metres long attached to stakes which I erect around my 2x1 metre bed. When finished I can roll it up to re-use.

im sure i read somewhere that the fly only travels along about 1 inch above the soil so im wondering how tall would the screen need to be . any ones experiences think this is right

[Stew]

Carrot fly supposedly flies no higher than 12 to 18" and only in May & September. Keep covered throughout these months. I have mine in 30" high boxes then covered in fleece or similar.

[oldie]

You will find various reports of high high carrot fly fly. I think 18" would be my minimum others say 24" so my fleece barrier is 30". Just to be safe.

[Flobalob]

These were part of my second crop pot grown (8 pots in total) and stood on a bench 2' high with no mesh. Everyone was unblemished
2nd+crop+carrots+002.jpg (image)

[gojiberry]

Last year I had some in pots on a wall 3' high that got the fly. I can only assume that they can climb steps which run up the side of the wall into the house. (clever little bleeders)

Ian

[zazen999]

My carrot fly in our courtyard [which had 6 ft high walls to 2 sides, a house to one side a garage to another] got ravaged.

I fleece now, from sowing to harvest.

[SarzWix]

I had some in a 3ft high wooden trough last year and they got carrot fly. Like Zazen, I decided the best thing would be to cover the lot. I've been growing veg for quite a few years now, and never had a decent crop of carrots... I'm very hopeful that this is the year I change that

[Snadger]

Enviromesh,enviromesh,enviromesh,enviromesh............Ah luv enviromesh me!

Pulled some wonderful tasty clean carrots today for dinner............something I never did until I found enviromesh!

My carrot bed stays covered 50 weeks of the year!

[shoreham_steve]

I've only ever screened my raised bed grown carrots with 24" high fleece and always (touching wood as I type) had a good crop.
I read that carrot fly don't fly higher than 20" but who is it that goes around measuring this and how do they make a living??

[HeyWayne]

I have an old wheelbarrow (useless in it's designed purpose) which I filled with compost and then strapped a load of lengths of conduit together so they stand upright. I grew carrots in loo roll centres and then placed them into the conduit tubes and back-filled with some more compost.

You have to remember to thin them out otherwise they grow too fat to be removed from the tubes (as I found out to my detriment last week), but they are slug/carrot fly and pest free.

[HayleyB]

I found one of my buckets this morning with most of the green cut after a dig around there was one carrot, half munched, no way was that a carrot fly

[Snadger]

I found one of my buckets this morning with most of the green cut after a dig around there was one carrot, half munched, no way was that a carrot fly

If it was???????????............ I woudn't want to meet it on a dark night!