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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Candide on July 29, 2022, 12:38

Title: Daikon radish nibbled
Post by: Candide on July 29, 2022, 12:38

I got some daikon radish in modules in back yard.  Summat's nibbling em;  quite drastically for a few of them.  Cabbage whites have been hanging about that area so gurgled and found that daikon are a brassica.  However, can't see any eggs or caterpillars.  Slug pellets and a beer trap all present and correct.
Am I right in assumptions?  Any suggestions?  And should I net them when planting out?
Thanks in advance, once again

Title: Re: Daikon radish nibbled
Post by: Yorkie on July 31, 2022, 18:45

Are they eating the radish leaves or radish crop?

Title: Re: Daikon radish nibbled
Post by: Candide on August 01, 2022, 12:51

The leaves

Title: Re: Daikon radish nibbled
Post by: Yorkie on August 01, 2022, 18:35

Could it be birds? It's been so hot and dry, they might be eating leaves.

Title: Re: Daikon radish nibbled
Post by: cc on August 01, 2022, 21:44

The birds eat the leaves of my beetroot and my chard if I don't net them. They are very fond of beetroot leaves.

Title: Re: Daikon radish nibbled
Post by: Candide on August 02, 2022, 08:47

The memsahb has a bird feeding policy so spadgers fly in - them praps.
I've moved the hoops and net that covered summer cabbage;  best put them under there then when they go up the plot.
Where, despite all the pigeons, chard and beet tops are not touched by them.
Thanks folks