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Carrot Fly

  • 09-06-2013 9:41am
    #1
    GS11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 385 ✭✭


    Anyone got a soloution for dealing with this pest, they usually destroy my carrots.

    I have 2 batches sown, one for about 7 weeks, and one for about 5 weeks and they are well up out of the ground.

    I am thinking about putting up a physical barrier, netting, will this do the job or is it too late.


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  • #2
    haybob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 347 ✭✭haybob


    GS11 wrote: »
    Anyone got a soloution for dealing with this pest, they usually destroy my carrots.

    I have 2 batches sown, one for about 7 weeks, and one for about 5 weeks and they are well up out of the ground.

    I am thinking about putting up a physical barrier, netting, will this do the job or is it too late.

    Might be a bit late to but up the barriers I find the fly resistant ones good enough. You could chance a few more now and get a couple of barrells too


  • #3
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Probably too late also but I think there is a companion crop, some flower, if you sow also it either distracts or keeps away the carrot fly. Never used it myself, but I hear it's supposed to work, as are physical barriers, I don't think they can fly too high.


  • #4
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    Probably too late also but I think there is a companion crop, some flower, if you sow also it either distracts or keeps away the carrot fly. Never used it myself, but I hear it's supposed to work, as are physical barriers, I don't think they can fly too high.
    I think onion is the boyo . The granfather used to sow a ridge of onions around the carrots and it supposedly masks the scent that helps the fly find the carrot


  • #5
    Dampintheattic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 839 ✭✭✭Dampintheattic


    moy83 wrote: »
    I think onion is the boyo . The granfather used to sow a ridge of onions around the carrots and it supposedly masks the scent that helps the fly find the carrot

    I have tried all those cures. Onion, garlic, etc. Codswallop. The dirt rotten fkuing, carrot fly, will not be beaten.
    Every last one of them (carrot flies), should be lined up against a wall, and shot five times.:mad:


  • #6
    haybob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 347 ✭✭haybob


    Dampintheattic wrote: »
    I have tried all those cures. Onion, garlic, etc. Codswallop. The dirt rotten fkuing, carrot fly, will not be beaten.
    Every last one of them (carrot flies), should be lined up against a wall, and shot five times.:mad:

    I wholeheartedly endorse this post

    However I have had sucess with the resista fly more so that the flyaway, I also plant a few Autum Kings near them so the little flippers can had a feed. I sowed another crop of autum kings today to avoid said flippers


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