Wednesday 1 October 2014

I Will Stop Those Mean Bugs!

It's been five days since I started using my garlic bug spray to save my poor defenceless carrots, which you can read about here. My carrots are starting to fight back!
You see that little fuzzy bit?
That is a "new" carrot plant that the carrot has made to replace the leaves that were decimated. Most of my carrots have done this for themselves. To help them out a bit, I went through and cut off all the straggly bits, that way the carrots can concentrate on growing new leaves instead of trying to repair old ones.
I popped all those straggly, bug-eaten stems in the compost and gave all the little leaves a good spritzing with garlic spray.
Currently, my carrots look like this:
Which is much nicer than they did, but still a little sad. I know they'll come good, though.

Happy, ahh, carroting!
Cassandra Louise.

6 comments:

  1. Progress most impressive in close-up. Well done! Now, we wait.

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    1. Thank you! They're working so hard! :-) I feel there will be another update on this soon.

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  2. Great to see that the carrots are growing back for you.
    Alexa from Sydney, Australia
    http://Zwingli.Alexa-simplelife.com

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    1. They're starting to do really well! I'll be doing another post about them, I think. Thanks for stopping by! :-)

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  3. good luck with that! i don't garden - i can hardly keep a couple of flowers and shrubs alive. thanks for coming by today!

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    1. Thanks for commenting, they'll be another follow-up post to this one soon. :-)

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