The long carrots have also put on decent growth and they should get away well from now on. A spray with insecticide may be required if greenfly descend but they don't usually go for carrots I tend to find, preferring my parsnips next door. However, slugs and snails are a different proposition and I have to scatter pellets over the tops of the drums to kill them.......whoever says slugs and snails don't like to crawl over coarse materials is talking out of his chocolate starfish!
Unlike most veg, with roots you don't really know until Show day whether you have some good exhibits or not. They may have forked halfway down or be bent etc. But hopefully the preparation you did in the early Spring means that the hard work has been done and the tap roots are now going down deep into the growing medium ready to put on good weight during the Summer.
I will scatter some special powder that I've bought called Rovril during late June and late August to try and deter the carrot root fly. It's not available to the general public (don't ask how I came by some!) and stinks to high heaven. You just scatter a few grains around the crown of each carrot and the root fly won't come anywhere near it......we shall see!
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