The carrot fly, despite its self-explanatory name, is interested not only in the specified vegetable: fennel, celery, parsnips and even parsley are at risk.
If you fail to suppress the pest activity immediately, the crop will be at risk.
Therefore, to begin with, it is worth trying effective and safe methods that have stood the test of time, advises agronomist and landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an expert of the online publication BelNovosti.
Which methods are worth considering in more detail?
Sagebrush
A useful plant will allow you to rid the plant of a dangerous pest in a few spraying procedures. You will need to take any container, fill it 50% with wormwood and pour in water.
The weed should be chopped with a shovel, and the liquid should be used hot.
After two hours, filter the solution and mix it with a couple of spoons of liquid soap. You can do this every week until the problem is completely eliminated.
Ammonia
If you haven’t had time to feed your carrots with nitrogen, you can carry out a useful procedure that will simultaneously serve as a fertilizer and a remedy against carrot flies.
For a bucket of water you will need to take no more than two spoons of the preparation.
