Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Jax64 on June 13, 2019, 16:20
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Can anyone help please, these were coming along nicely, now they have this brown sort of marking on the leaf, looks almost like a scorch on the spinach...I don’t think so with this weather!
Thanks
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What is the texture of the brown patches? Crispy? Soft?
I'm wondering whether it could be too much rain, at least for the spinach, but others may have a view.
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Yorkie, bit difficult to tell as soaking wet! I’ll have a look tomorrow, if it eases off, thank you.
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there is little bug that feeds in between the layers of the leaf itself. if you feel the leaf there is a slight lump ,(the bug). the brown patch is where the bug has "eaten"
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Looks like leaf miner to me (larvae of the mangold fly).
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Thank you all, after 15 years growing a new one on me, how annoying. Will go out and remove leaves that are badly damaged to burn and squash any that show signs. In future will use debris netting to cover.
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Looks like leaf miner to me (larvae of the mangold fly).
It seems to be more common at the moment - we have the same - I presume weather conditions and a mild winter haven't helped.
Solution? Not sure there is one... My daughter has removed all the leaves showing signs of this (painstaking job). I have mostly ignored the ones on my beetroot... I'm hoping the plants will be strong enough to grow through it rather the roots be chomped too.
Anyone got any tips to help please?
I think they over winter in the soil, lay eggs on the leaf and set the cycle off again.
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with the beetroot I squash the leaves where I feel the "bump" and leave the leaves on the plant.
suppose this is not an option if you want to eat the leaves.
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with the beetroot I squash the leaves where I feel the "bump" and leave the leaves on the plant.
suppose this is not an option if you want to eat the leaves.
I've just looked the other way... several rows so cant be doing with squashing and leaf pulling. I'm hoping mine will grow through the attack... I have a feeling it happens every year but not to such a high level.
Blinking bugs.
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I’ve removed the leaves on the spinach, ignoring the beetroot, too many leaves, resown beetroot as life cycle of fly, allegedly next phase Sept/Oct. thanks all.
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I have left my beetroot to get on with it - all seem fine at the moment.
Wish you luck with yours.
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Thanks Paul 🤞