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Scutch grass attacking carrots?

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  • 30-08-2022 5:00pm
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    Igotadose
    Registered Users Posts: 13,483 ✭✭✭✭


    I pulled an otherwise healthy carrot today, and it had been 'speared' by something underground. I have every weed imaginable around and scutch grass is everywhere; could it have poked the carrot when the carrot was younger? I don't think it affected the carrot much, it's as big as other unpoked one.

    Carrot with something poking into it:

    IMG_20220830_152911.jpg

    Closeup showing 'spear' removed, and the hole it made in the carrot:

    IMG_20220830_153042.jpg




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    Jim_Hodge
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    Not trying to be smart but that's why you keep carrots weeded.



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    looksee
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    Yes, I have seen scutch spear carrots.



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    Igotadose
    Registered Users Posts: 13,483 ✭✭✭✭Igotadose


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119543876#Comment_119543876

    Totally agree - the scutch grass is a plague though, miss a tiny bit, a couple days later, boom! And, fwiw, the carrots are, overall, doing really well for me this year, have had 2 full (enough for our use) crops this year for the first time, plus *touch wood* no sign of the horror that is the root fly.



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