[monabrew]

I have just returned to my patch after a few days away, and, my swede plants are covered in whitefly. Are they beyond repair or can the flies be got rid of ?
Thanks
Paul

[Rampant_Weasel]

bug clear for veg will kill them, if u have any marigolds in teh garden transplant them next to the swede and it will repel them.

[monabrew]

Thanks

[Brassica Blaz]

bug clear for veg will kill them, if u have any marigolds in teh garden transplant them next to the swede and it will repel them.

do marigolds really repel white fly?

[Yorkie]

bug clear for veg will kill them

I cannot see that product on the licensed pesticide database, RW.

What is its active ingredient? Or its MAFF number?

[DD.]

Everyone sells it, Yorkie:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Clear-Fruit-Liquid-Concentrate-Insecticide/dp/B0017RNZA2

I've got some in my shed!

[Yorkie]

Excellent 

One of my friends was here over the weekend, and he works with the people who are redeveloping the HSE / pesticides website.  I have already made my feelings known about the standard of the search facility, and this is just another example 

[TerryB]

do marigolds really repel white fly?
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Yes they do, but work best in the greenhouse or under nets.
I assume its because the smell is more concentrated, not blown away by wind.

[Rampant_Weasel]

forgot to add, my brassicas and marigolds are underneath enviromesh.
the whitefly can get thru the mesh, but the marigolds make them leave again, altho why i dont know.

[sunshineband]

forgot to add, my brassicas and marigolds are underneath enviromesh.
the whitefly can get thru the mesh, but the marigolds make them leave again, altho why i dont know.

Their smell is concentrated under the mesh, as Terry said 

[mumofstig]

do you plant the small, single french marigolds or the big double flowered ones?

I usually plant the small single ones in the greenhouse border, but my grandaughte got me some big double seeds for my birthday....and they really do pong!
cos of the size I only grew a few

[sunshineband]

We grew masses of the large double flowered ones -- bigger than I thought tbh.

They make great cut flowers 

[mumofstig]

would they be to big under the debris netting, I wonder

[sunshineband]

Depends on the height of the netting -- the plants are 2 ft 6ins high 

[mumofstig]

and I thought mine were tall