caterpillars already! I give up!

Looking over some of my over-wintering kale and what do I see??  A cabbage white caterpillar!!!  I had so much trouble with these last year and dutifully picked, killed and left out for the robin every one I found.

And now they are back!

Think I will concentrate my brassica growing at the allotment and make sure everything is netted from the outset!

Grrrrrrrr

Last year was my first year to, I only had my garden and dug some of the lawn up to make a couple of raised beds.  I soon found out that EVERYTHING wanted a mouthful of my crops!  It was a nightmare, I lost plants to cabbage root fly then to flea beetle then to pigeons and then to caterpillars!  I've learnt my lesson, if in doubt net it! Good luck with yours to!

I wouldn't worry about club root where you're growing, Bill. I suspect it's probably never even seen a brassica!

Might have seen some wallflowers though DD, I assume club root on wallflower would affect the ground for brassica's, yes /no ?

Crikey, CID caterpillars   (caterpillars in disguise). Life gets more and more confusing 

Very doubtful though, isn't it? You tend not to get clubroot where only flowers have been grown. Wallflowers can keep it going though.

I think you're looking at the very, very worse case scenario there and if we all did that, you'd never grow a darn thing.

Yes I agree it's doubtful. But I did wonder if it were possible.

And a big yes, if we looked on the worst case scenario we'd probably all have paved gardens, and no allotments, with nothing for caterpillers to thrive on 

Hate to say this, but are you sure it was an caterpillar and not a vine weevil...? Send us a pic, please.