I have pulled up the last of the carrots. I'm very pleased with my carrot crop this year. As I have reported previously, this year I have been growing fly-resistant varieties, and for the first time ever I have had a viable crop of mature carrots. Most of the carrots have been untouched by the fly, but not all of them. Maybe this is a reasonable compromise between me and Nature: the carrot flies can have their fair share, but not ALL of my crop!
This is what the best ones looked like.
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| The best of the bunch |
But they weren't all like that, I regret... These ones show signs of slug damage as well as carrot-fly infestation. Perhaps I left them in the ground too long.
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| The other end of the spectrum... |
Whilst most of the roots were quite regular, one or two of them were a very strange shape.
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| An oddity! |
I'm pretty sure fly-resistant carrots will be a feature of my plot again.
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