Nothing will put a dent in your carrot yields quite like disease. Not even a rabbit who frequently nibbles on them while saying, “Eh… what’s up, doc?”
Confession time: back in high school, there was a time when I ate a stupidly large amount of carrots, to the point where my palms literally turned orange from the Vitamin A surplus.
I kid you not, the orange was a shade away from an Oompa-Loompa’s skin tone!
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Anyway, that little experiment wouldn’t have been possible without access to plenty of carrots that I could consume in ridiculous quantities.
For those who want to munch on plenty of carrots themselves, you’ll have to know how to keep them healthy and disease-free while they grow.
That’s why we’ve whipped up this handy guide to some notable carrot diseases that you might encounter in your garden.
I’ll cover the causes, life cycles, and resultant symptoms, as well as how you can treat them… or even prevent them from occurring in the first place.
Here’s the list of diseases:
11 Common Carrot Diseases
For a quick refresher about how to grow carrots, sink your teeth into this guide.
It should help quite a bit, since proper cultivation promotes healthy plants that can resist many common diseases.
But it can happen that a disease comes a-knocking, and these are the most common ailments to watch out for in your carrot patch.
1. Alternaria Leaf Blight
Capable of spreading quickly and remorselessly, Alternaria leaf blight is present worldwide, wherever carrots are produced on a large scale. Perhaps even in your garden…
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