potato bag help needed

[Decaff]

Im cursed with regards to carrots, on my third sowing now..... all I have are two tiny carrots growing in the corner of a tub, everything else is devoured as soon as they start to grow! They are covered to protect from carrot fly and I dug through the tubs looking for slugs, nothing to be found

[cornerstone]

Im cursed with regards to carrots, on my third sowing now..... all I have are two tiny carrots growing in the corner of a tub, everything else is devoured as soon as they start to grow! They are covered to protect from carrot fly and I dug through the tubs looking for slugs, nothing to be found

what about those nets, have you tried them, also i did see somewhere else that mosquito nets do the job, do not now it it does but maybe worth a mention
what they did if i cast my mind back was plant in a bag of big pot then enclose it in the net with supports on the inside.

[Decaff]

Im cursed with regards to carrots, on my third sowing now..... all I have are two tiny carrots growing in the corner of a tub, everything else is devoured as soon as they start to grow! They are covered to protect from carrot fly and I dug through the tubs looking for slugs, nothing to be found

what about those nets, have you tried them, also i did see somewhere else that mosquito nets do the job, do not now it it does but maybe worth a mention
what they did if i cast my mind back was plant in a bag of big pot then enclose it in the net with supports on the inside.

My tubs are covered with a fleecy fabric that is tucked under all the way around, hoops keeping the fleece off the surface so the carrots could grow. I read up about the carrot fly and wanted to be safe... it didn't work! something got in somehow and feasted on the lot, bar two!

[cornerstone]

I am not sure but i thought the fleece was to keep stuff warm, the nets is what you need for insects.

[grenfell]

From what I was lead to understand carrot fly only flies up to about a foot above the ground so surrounding the carrots with a "fence" of insect type mesh or net a little higher should keep the little blighters away.

[featherstick]

You have a slug in the pots.

[Decaff]

The fleecy stuff is very thin and it said suitable for use as screening as the insects cant get through it, you can water through it so you don't need to remove for any reason. I think it must have been a slug too,unless those flies worked out how to lift the troughs to get underneath!

Ive dug through them and sown French Market (little round marble looking) in one and normal long ones in the other, moved the troughs and raised them off the ground. Hoping for success this time, that is if the seeds haven't rotted with all the rain we've been getting!

[cornerstone]

slugs are a real problem i have tried all what they say, pelets and copper strips, nothing works that i have found, but what does is a layer or line of salt, the only problem is that the rain washes it away, unless you put a moat like thing and keep topping it up, maybe they are not carrot flies maybe another muncher, why not put one of those sticky tapes there and trap a few, to see what exactly you are dealing with and put a few on the floor incase they are not actually fliers that way you can ID them and get rid properly.