Roll them carrots...

That's interesting New Shoot.

Why can't you do these things ever?

I was taught that very early on and much more inexperienced than I am now, when I moaned a tiny bit about a plot next to me, which was all over the place (back in 1985 this is).

The chap who I was chatting to reminded me that she was an old lady who lived by herself, and had no need for great long rows of veg, she needed just a few, and as she was pretty good at gardening, she'd grow - say - a 6' row of carrots which were enough, and then branch out on all the sorts of exotic stuff which nobody had ever heard of!

From then on we were the best of friends, and on one memorable occasion, she said that 'The council only judge these gardens by the edges being cut straight - Paaaah!'! Big grin from Growster at that one too!

Also she gave me her old lawnmower, which was a Webb Bowling Green model and the hardest push mower I've ever handled, because it had about 4,000 blades to cut the sward to about 1/10th of an inch either way...

Nice old lady! Gone now.

Goose, I think the advice is to keep them covered all the time

I may be thick, I am definatly blond ( I do dye my roots brown) but why would you want to roller or tread down on carrots!!

You must understand this thread the best, then.

I roller my hair.

JayG, I have read from the begining and I still do not understand it seems to me that they are saying you squash the follage to kill the root fly, but if you do that you attract the fly because you have squashed the follage and the smell attracts them..

I will go away and suck my thumb in the corner.

There's a good chance that I'll see Dennis over the weekend.

He doesn't realise that all this is going to be reported to him verbatim, and that he's got the whole community on tenterhooks...

I may be some time...

He's got a lot to answer for.

My carrots have not stood back up again!