Nice one @CrankyYankee. I like the set up too. This might be a silly question but do carrots in the USA get carrot root fly like they do here sometimes?
@Uff - I honestly don't know the answer to that. I remember hearing that those flies can smell a carrot as soon as you pull them, but I didn't have anything like that. My biggest pests are tomato hornworms, cutworms, red lily beetles, chipmunks, and a woodchuck who moved in and decimated my perennial holding beds along with half my vegetable garden this summer.
New England, USA
Metacomet soil with hints of Woodbridge and Pillsbury
Yes they are the ones. I had to Google hornworms, I don't think but may be wrong that we have them in the UK. Perhaps someone can verify please? We don't have chipmunks or woodchucks though
Parsnips, yuk! I like carrots, but I don't grow them. They're cheap to buy and the ground's too stony. Our old neighbour used to grow them and always got wonky, forked "comedy carrots" - we used to have a laugh at the rude-looking ones.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
The "rude-looking ones" comment made me laugh, @JennyJ !
@Uff - Hornworms are horrible. If you don't have them then trust me, you don't want them. Little buggers will strip an entire tomato plant of leaves in a few days, and they blend in so well you usually don't find them until they're the size of small sausages. Absolutely creepy things.
New England, USA
Metacomet soil with hints of Woodbridge and Pillsbury
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I had to Google hornworms, I don't think but may be wrong that we have them in the UK. Perhaps someone can verify please?
We don't have chipmunks or woodchucks though
Those hornworms sound horrid😮 it's bad enough we get root fly, slugs, and piggy beatles ( woodlice) that eat ours.