[domw001]

This year I decided to cage my brassicas with debris netting to keep out a). Cabbage Whites and b). whitefly/aphids.

Only 1 butterfly has got through  so far but I have just got back from a week away and my brussels, broccoli and swedes have been absolutely decimated by the aphids

It seems that not only does the debris net keep them in and the predators out it actually makes it a nice environent for them to multiply at a rate of knots.

I am thinking of re-sowing the brussels, broccoli and swedes again but I need to know...

1. Is it too late in the year?

2. Is it OK to put them where the damaged plants are now (I dont have a lot of spare ground to put them elsewhere)

3. Would cutting away the infected foliage and spraying help the plants to survive.

4. How are other people dealing with the little .......things!

[mumofstig]

Just spray them ...........provado ultimate bug killer is ok for use on brassicas, or use an insecticidal soap spray.

[sunshineband]

and don't despair -- they should recover 

[Dom2599]

How weird!.......my names Dom from Middlesbrough and my plot is 69 A/B!!

[sunshineband]

Scary 

[Ice]

Debris netting does have a line of larger holes in it.  Could the  pests have come in through them?

Have to agree with the Provado Ultimate spray.  I use it judiciously and never if the plant would crop within two weeks.

[mike1987]

How weird!.......my names Dom from Middlesbrough and my plot is 69 A/B!!

hi whitch plots in eston are you on? im on the nortth church lane ones plot 39 the messy one on the end lol

[Dom2599]

How weird!.......my names Dom from Middlesbrough and my plot is 69 A/B!!

hi whitch plots in eston are you on? im on the nortth church lane ones plot 39 the messy one on the end lol

Hi Mike,

I'm over at Teesville......the scruffy looking one in the middle....lol

[mike1987]

didnt they have problems a few weeks ago with a skip been put there for allotment waste and all the houses nearby filling it with there own rubbish?

[Dom2599]

didnt they have problems a few weeks ago with a skip been put there for allotment waste and all the houses nearby filling it with there own rubbish?

That wouldnt suprise me, id need more than just one skip for the rubbish on my plot

[mike1987]

yea when they took ours away they turned up in a transit wth a caged in back i told him he would need a bier van just for my plot 10 mins ler a full size bin lory was there it took 4 of us just over an hour to load all the junk into it then they started on the other plots