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Something is up with the carrots. We pulled some to eat tonight, and when we peeled them they had black patches beneath the skin, almost like something had been in there eating them.
I don’t know whether it’s the whole run of just the ones we pulled today, but I suspect this is an attack of carrot fly. Considering we planted a carrot fly-resistant variety, that’s very disappointing.
On a more positive note, the peppers are going great guns, and we took the first from one of the trees today. There are another six or so on the same bush, and plenty more to come, even before looking at the other plants.
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2 Responses to “Carrotastrophe”
We live in northern France, had just as wet a summer as UK but our neighbour handed us two of his huge crop of carrots this morning, the larger of them weighed 1 kilo300gms!!
• Posted at 2:54 pm on October 26th, 2007 by DianaWard.Leave a Reply
I heard a man on the radio the other evening saying that it had been too wet for a good carrot crop this year and there would be a national shortage. He was from the carrot council (or something like that) so he must have been talking the truth. Perhaps the wet weather is to blame?
• Posted at 3:15 pm on October 11th, 2007 by Chris Brennan.