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Had to pull up my parsley hamburg and ditch it as some horrible wee beasties has been at the roots - they were full of holes ant mushy. Can anyone tell me what these things are?
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Look like aphids to me.Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet -
They do look like aphids but have you looked inside the root? Maybe carrot fly nymphs are about too if there's holes in the root?Location : EssexComment
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Thanks guys. I had thought carrot fly but was thrown off by the hordes of ickle things at the base.
Guess the pests are ganging up.
Ah well- next year I'll be using enviromesh. The onions didn't keep the fly away from the carrots either.
New all singing all dancing blog - Jasons Jungle
�I have not failed 1,000 times. I have successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb."
― Thomas A. Edison
�Negative results are just what I want. They�re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don�t.�
― Thomas A. Edison
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I have just given it a real pruning before it comes into leaf in the hope of getting some regeneration and the tree not having to work as hard getting water and nutrients higher up. If this doesn't work I'll replace it next year with something else.
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