I have managed to grow carrots! Not a big deal for some people but it is for me. All the carrots I have grown before now have been riddled with Carrot Fly. Not this year. I interplanted Marigolds between the carrot rows. I got the marigolds going early in the greenhouse and planted the marigolds as seedling when I sowed the carrot seeds. I can hardly see the carrots the bed under the cover of marigolds. I guess the carrot fly could not find them either. It might have been the harsh winter that killed off a lot of the adults. Whatever the case, carrot I have. They are not pretty but they are a good size and carrot fly free.
It is not so much the fly, as the maggots of the fly, that are the problem. The fly lays the eggs on the ground next to the carrots. The eggs hatch and the maggots feast on the carrots and in doing so drag soil in the burrrows in the body of the carrots. The carrots are ruined.
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