Topic: alternatives to derris?

[fat larry]

My pea shoots are getting ruined by some little blighter - neighbour reckons it is pea weevil, and said to get some derris: i asked what that is and was told 'it;s a powder!' -- but having looked it up I don't like the sound of it. Any other way to keep the litttle ******* off my crops: companion planting, landmines? anything

[Doris_Pinks]

Fat Larry, I use fleece to cover mine. Keeps all the nasties off! ;D

[supersprout]

Ditto, altho' I use fine mesh  :)

[fat larry]

I'm useless with fleece. On our old, contested, allotment, I put it up round carrot etc (when there was no carrot fly!!) and it looked like a crime scene - and I put lots of holes in it, securing it to the ground via sticks. Now, what;s left of  it flaps about over my spuds on my new allotment that has carrot fly, flea beetle and these little £@%^£*^£$&*4s.
 After my last failure I'm loathe to buy any more. How do you put it over your peas and until what stage???

[fat larry]

went down lottie tonight and found little black hopping beetles nibbling my brassicas, my peas, my broadies, >:(. As a hypochondriac I'm really wary of Rotenide/derris due to the possible parkinsons disease link, in fact I'm baffled that it is considered an organic pesticide when there is this possibility, and it's poisonous to eithert butterflies or ladybirds or soemthing. Grrr