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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:17 pm
by Goodlife1970
Cabbage White caterpillas are my biggest foes,they reduce the brassicas to lace even though we pick them off as soon as we see them.We have now taken to planting later brassicas so that they have all grown into butterflies by the time we plant.Why is it that they will lay eggs on and eat the green curly kale but leave the purple kale alone? Is purple not attractive to them?
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:35 pm
by hedgewizard
Stick some envirofleece over them, provided you can erect a wind shelter so your fleece doesn't get shredded! Or better yet, grow them in the tunnel (no, I'm not serious, 10 months in the ground? Although I'm growing half a dozen caulis in mine!)
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:10 pm
by Goodlife1970
Was thinking of building a "brassica cage" and covering it with green mesh but some rotten beggar stole my mesh fom the school garden,along with all the remaining produce!
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:22 am
by Wombat
What a bugger! Don't you hate that!
Nev
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 11:36 am
by hedgewizard
Tell me about it. I had a whole set of cotton nappies packaged up and ready to sell on to the next user on Ebay, and some scabby git nicked them out of my car.
Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 11:40 am
by Wombat
That's pretty low hedgie!
Nev