Flyaway !

This is our plan to protect our carrots from carrot root fly. We have screened the area where carrots have been sown with a fine mesh at about 3' high with the base buried into the soil.

The rationale here is that the flightpath of carrot root fly is a maximum of 12" above the ground, so when they try to attack our carrots they will bounce off the mesh.

Of course, with the money spent on these defences we could have bought up the entire stock of carrots from Tesco... but this is a war of attrition and, we insist, money well spent !

The rest of The Patch is looking reasonable. The picture below shows our Autumn sown Peas and Broad Beans with a few spring sown plants to fill in gaps. The cardboard tubes are protecting our Celery plants and will (hopefully !) encourage them to produce long blanched stems. Beyond this is our Autumn sown Garlic, Onions and Shallots.

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