Growing up carrots, often it is necessary to see how tops of leaves become violet-red color. Then leaves turn yellow, the carrot tops of vegetable begins to wither and dry up.
What happens to carrots?
Plants of carrots give signal of ""SOS"" and ask about the help. Culture is attacked by the malicious wrecker - carrot fly. It begins the departure in the spring when gardens and lilac blossom. As the fly violently develops the activity during the whole garden season, to fight against it extremely difficult and troublesome. This harmful insect strictly ""works"" according to the scheme: the fly-egg-larva-fly also ""stamps"" generation behind generation. Even part of larvae can remain in root crops in the fall and remove to the basement on storage. And also larvae perfectly perezimovyvat also in the soil. Especially strongly the wrecker in damp years annoys.
The harm done by carrot fly
The fly begins first ""attack"" to ""kids"" at whom is only several appeared leaves. Further growth of root crops is slowed down. They become bent, ligneous, tasteless and even bitter. Crack, get ugly forms with characteristic damages for carrot fly - banners around of root crop and the rusty courses from larvae. Such harvest is not subject to storage.
First aid at the first signs of damage of plants of carrots
Removal from beds of the damaged plants of carrots and destruction.
If damages small, then we apply national methods: we process and spill the soil infusions of onions (garlic), it is possible to leave peel on beds.
Dusting by any odorous means having near at hand will also help. It is pepper ground any, mustard powder, ashes, tobacco dust-like mix, the chopped wormwood grass. Opylivaniye needs to repeat in several days and after rains. The task of the gardener is to disorient carrot fly and to take away it from beds.
After watering it is necessary to loosen and mulch the soil. Good mulch are peat and coarse sand which the carrot fly does not transfer. The fly does not love dry mulch.
It is important that plants of carrots were well aired and did not grow in unacceptable narrowness. The bared root crops should be mulched or podrykhlyat the soil.
If damages essential, then it is necessary to apply chemical methods, following precisely according to the instruction. But it is extreme measures.
It is possible to grow up carrots under nonwoven ukryvny fabric. It well protects landings from carrot fly.