Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Lottie Digger on July 08, 2016, 18:52
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My Brussels are netted and its too small a net for butterflies to get through but something is eating the leaves. Can't see anything on them and have put down slug bait but not caught any culprits! Any suggestions please 👍
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There is another moth that can get through most netting, it might be those eating your veg.
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=123709.msg1454588#msg1454588
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That does sound very likely tbh
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Same happened here - the leaves were almost stripped to the bone!
I hit them all with a dose of Resolva Bug-Hater or similar, and they all picked up after a couple of weeks, and are in fine fettle now!
They'll grow through this, but you may well need a few chemicals...
Sorry if you're organic - I don't know of anything else to deal with the problem!
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Debris netting is an effective deterrent, Growster, to think about for the next brood of the little lovelies coming along!
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Might be flea beetles
They tend to leave lots of little holes, and are hard to spot
To check for those shove a sheet of sticky paper under the plant, and wander away.
When you return tap the plant, and they tend to all drop off when the plant is disturbed
But being small are hard to spot
And fit through lots of mesh...
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Debris netting is an effective deterrent, Growster, to think about for the next brood of the little lovelies coming along!
Good point, KC, but will that keep the blighters in or keep them out? I don't actually know where they are at the moment!
It seems that the plants have now recovered, and may need staking (there are only six, so it wouldn't take long).
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Debris netting is an effective deterrent, Growster, to think about for the next brood of the little lovelies coming along!
Good point, KC, but will that keep the blighters in or keep them out? I don't actually know where they are at the moment!
It seems that the plants have now recovered, and may need staking (there are only six, so it wouldn't take long).
It took me a couple of hours to close check 18 plants, both sides of each leaf, for the tiny green caterpillars, whilst clapping to squash any moths. But it did the job
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You've done enough work to film a re-run of the classic sketch - 'The Sprouts of Evil', by The Young Ones, KC!
Well done for all that!
I did find some minute galls on some of the leaves this morning, and that may be a sign of what happened, so I'll keep an eye on the little darlings..;0)
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Interesting post. My Brussels have had a similar attack despite debris netting. I will have to give the leaves a careful check for the responsible bugs.
Cheers HH
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Thanks everybody! I've given then a squirt of bug spray and the new leaves seem ok next year it will be fleece me thinks :D