Clear, close up pics might help. Then I could at least Google around and try and find a match.

Early use of the garden weasel followed by a grass-clipping mulch are keeping the weeds down nicely. The mulch retains water. Anything I were to grow in the narrow spaces between the plants would require watering instead. Zone and geology make a great deal of difference. Gardening in Massachusetts on a sand that was unsorted glacial till gave me little trouble -- except that I mulched for the first time (mulch plus soggy clay in a steamy, Western PA summer would have been a sure recipe for fungal diseases). The Carolina Sandhills are the remains of an ancient beachfront. The sand is nearly pure quartz and the grains are almost all the same size so its quite different from my Massachusetts sand. And the blistering days (I never thought I'd ever utter the phrase "Its not too hot today. Its only 90.), suck the moisture away so rapidly that I water only at the plants' roots. Any weed seeds in the area that I did not mulch yet are not sprouting because it hasn't rained in 3 weeks. My neighbor uses an annual rye grass on his garden over the winter with good results, but he doesn't care if his garden gives him nothing between late October and mid-June since he only grows beans, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, and cucumbers. :-)

cut down until you have complete green wood (no brown) then wipe blade with alcohol and make one more thin cut. If you leave it be it may harden but more likely rot downward to kill the plant. After it heals, new branches should grow near the cut.

Hey everyone, We moved onto new farmland this year. I've never had trouble with carrots in the past, but all summer I experienced drying and browning tops, resulting in unsellable, small carrots. We had the hottest summer on record here with practically zero rain, so I assumed that was all that was at fault. Now, though, I'm seeing some of the same browning and drying starting on our winter Napoli carrots (we plant them in the field and later erect caterpillar tunnels over them for the winter). So hot, dry weather obviously isn't the cause. I've attached a couple photos of what the damage is looking like in its early stage. Could this be a pest I'm not familiar with? Any other suggestions? It looks to be worsening in spite of the cold weather, and I want to intervene if possible to save our winter carrots. Oh, and we're in western NC, in the mountains, zone 6b. Thanks.