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Thanks for the complements and ideas, everyone. I'm a little surprised that no one is mentioning marigolds 
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Chris, I've got carrots that look exactly like those in the Cornell bulletin on nematodes.
Besides all the deformed carrot roots, I pondered for a long time the cause of the near-death of Beefy Boy tomatoes in my garden one year. I had good number of varieties including 3 hybrid beefsteaks: Beefy Boy, Big Beef & Goliath.
There was nothing especially wrong with the Big Beef & Goliath that year. Beefy Boy had an absolutely terrible season! I mean, some of the plants dang near died - I'm not sure if I harvested 1 fruit off a half dozen plants. And yet, here were all these reasonably healthy plants all around them. Turns out that of the 3, Beefy Boy is the one with no nematode resistance.
One thing, I had long thought that nematodes might be something I could see. Like symphylans or root maggots - they would be there when I pulled the roots and looked at them. Not so. Here is a picture from UCDavis of a "Mature Meloidogyne female (on head of pin for size perspective)." (I suppose she is full of eggs and that's why she looks like that.)
Nope, we aren't going to see something that could crawl 10 to the head of a pin around on plant roots Not without magnification, anyway . . .
There is that and other good reasons to grow carrots in the garden with more sandy soil. And despite all my efforts at soil building, to not grow these season-long carrot varieties in the pea-gravel garden.
It is kind of fun posting pictures of the soil in the very rocky, big veggie garden where I will sometimes grow a few quick-maturing Nantes carrots. Here's a picture of a mutant (or something) pepper from seed in the packet of Thai Hot. Maybe it has some resistance to pests :
Steve
.Chris, I've got carrots that look exactly like those in the Cornell bulletin on nematodes.
Besides all the deformed carrot roots, I pondered for a long time the cause of the near-death of Beefy Boy tomatoes in my garden one year. I had good number of varieties including 3 hybrid beefsteaks: Beefy Boy, Big Beef & Goliath.
There was nothing especially wrong with the Big Beef & Goliath that year. Beefy Boy had an absolutely terrible season! I mean, some of the plants dang near died - I'm not sure if I harvested 1 fruit off a half dozen plants. And yet, here were all these reasonably healthy plants all around them. Turns out that of the 3, Beefy Boy is the one with no nematode resistance.
One thing, I had long thought that nematodes might be something I could see. Like symphylans or root maggots - they would be there when I pulled the roots and looked at them. Not so. Here is a picture from UCDavis of a "Mature Meloidogyne female (on head of pin for size perspective)." (I suppose she is full of eggs and that's why she looks like that
.)Nope, we aren't going to see something that could crawl 10 to the head of a pin around on plant roots Not without magnification, anyway . . .
There is that and other good reasons to grow carrots in the garden with more sandy soil. And despite all my efforts at soil building, to not grow these season-long carrot varieties in the pea-gravel garden.
It is kind of fun posting pictures of the soil in the very rocky, big veggie garden
where I will sometimes grow a few quick-maturing Nantes carrots. Here's a picture of a mutant (or something) pepper from seed in the packet of Thai Hot. Maybe it has some resistance to pests :
Steve
