{"id":13958,"date":"2013-08-29T00:12:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T07:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13958"},"modified":"2013-08-29T01:00:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T08:00:19","slug":"deter-carrot-root-fly-ten-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/deter-carrot-root-fly-ten-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Tips to Deter Carrot Root Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Psila rosea or carrot root has larvae that feed on your root veg by burrowing into the flesh &#8216;ugh!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stevewilhelm\/3481831237\/\" title=\"Carrots by Steve Wilhelm, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3561\/3481831237_62071ed982.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Carrots\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3> Five Tips to Deter Root Fly<\/h3>\n<ul>\n1. Select varieties to grow that have been bred for resistance to carrot root fly.<\/p>\n<p>2. Cover carrot crops with fleece to prevent low flying female flies from laying eggs on your crop.<\/p>\n<p>3. Follow good crop rotation to avoid overwintering pupae hatching in the middle of your crop.<\/p>\n<p>4. Grow in narrow beds with 18&#8243; high polythene or fine mesh barriers to keep female flies at bay or in raised beds.<\/p>\n<p>5. Use biological controls such as nemotodes, Carrot root fly killer or sticky traps.\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Five Scent Deterrents for Root Fly<\/h3>\n<ul>\n6. Sow seeds thinly to avoid thinning out which releases the scent of the carrots thus attracting flies.<\/p>\n<p>7. Grow carrots alongside strong smelling plants like alliums chives and garlic.<\/p>\n<p>8. Sow carrots in June after thee first generation of pest have gone.<\/p>\n<p>9. Do not grow your carrots with similar root veg like parsnips and celery as they too can harbour root flies.<\/p>\n<p>10. Sow carrots mixed in with other crops to make them harder for pests to single out for destruction.\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Five Varieties Resistant to Root Fly<\/h3>\n<ul>\nFlyaway<br \/>\nIbiza<br \/>\nMaestro<br \/>\nParano<br \/>\n<a href=\" http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0068J7MDK\/richardpettin-21\">Resistafly<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=carrot\"> More carrot seeds at Thompson &amp; Morgan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo = Carrots by Steve Wilhelm CC BY-NC-SA 2.0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to stop or prevent carrot root fly &#8216;eating your lunch&#8217; . Ten deterrents to try keep flies away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegetables-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}