Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Anton on November 04, 2018, 17:29
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Help please. After a saunter in the allotment I noticed one or two winter cauliflower plants looked a bit sickly. On closer observation I noticed some purplish looking insects. Any idea what these are and possible remedies please?
Anton
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They're horrible - Mealy aphids, they tend to take on the colour of whichever brassica they are feeding on.
RHS advice here https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=656
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Thanks very much for your prompt reply.
Anton
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Another thanks too, I was going to ask the same question as somethings been getting at one of my polytunnel caulis too.
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Had them all over my broccoli, wondered what they were.
Threw away what I had picked ;)
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Back to my winter cauliflowers. I haven't been down to the allotment for a bit but when I did go recently , I saw the plants I had treated a few times were no better than before and in fact a lot worse. I fear the beasts have also started on some neighbouring plant.
Is is best to dig up the sickly ones and throw them away and maybe cut any dubious-looking leaves off the other plants?
Anton
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Difficult to tell - have you got another piccie?
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No, I can take a picture tomorrow, if you like.
But basically, the ones that were looking poorly, look really poorly now.
And some neighbouring plants have dubious-looking leaves.
Anton