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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Carlh80 on May 21, 2020, 19:58

Title: What pests made these??
Post by: Carlh80 on May 21, 2020, 19:58

Hi I’ve started growing some vegetables, noticed some plants have been a meal for some form of pest. I found a cluster of tiny yellow yoga on the underneath of the leaves on the broccoli plants, didn’t take a picture at the time.
Also my broccoli leaves have been a meal.
Are these just caterpillars? Or something else as I’ve not seen any pests about.
Also what is the best non chemical way of getting rid??

Thanks.

Title: Re: What pests made these??
Post by: New shoot on May 22, 2020, 10:00

Yellow eggs are from cabbage white butterflies, but the the damage to the broccoli looks like slugs to me.  There are various non-chemical routes like beer traps, or spreading crushed eggshells around.  Slugs will be around at night so you might not see them.

The beetroot (or is it chard) look fine.  I would not worry about the odd hole in leaf.  They will grow through that.

Title: Re: What pests made these??
Post by: greenjay on May 22, 2020, 20:41

I would say slug damage!

Title: Re: What pests made these??
Post by: Carlh80 on May 22, 2020, 21:28

Thanks guys. So just lay crushed egg shells around the plants?

Yeah beetroot the other ones are. So am
I correct in guessing that eaten leaves on root veg is t such a bad thing?