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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Anton on November 22, 2022, 21:09

Title: Leeks being attacked
Post by: Anton on November 22, 2022, 21:09

Help please.
I sprayed my leeks with a chrysantheum concentrate up until October and they didn't seem to have been attacked by anything. Harvesting them today I found a few tiny brown pests and small grooves on the inside of the plants. Are these leek moth or leaf mining fly grubs? If so is it worth spraying them again at this late stage? Or is there anything else I can do?

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Thanks in advance for your advice.

Anton

Title: Re: Leeks being attacked
Post by: Hampshire Hog on November 22, 2022, 22:03

Sorry Anton you look as though you have been hit by the Allium leaf miner that attacked my leeks!! See earlier discussion about these lovely bugs.
Not sure you can do anything beyond cutting out good sections for harvest.
Suggestion is the warm weather may have exacerbated the attacks. HH

Title: Re: Leeks being attacked
Post by: Anton on November 23, 2022, 08:43

Thanks for your reply Hampshire.

Anton