« previous next »
Pages: [1]

Author Topic: parsnip pests?????  (Read 6671 times)

simmo116

  • Acre
  • ****
  • Posts: 309
parsnip pests?????
« on: July 18, 2009, 13:08:45 »
hi i noticed that on my parsnips that around the neck they seemed to be earthed up by ants. and on closer inspection i noticed hundreds of small brown aphid like bugs on the whole parsnip i've taken some pics but there not very clear. also there was a patch of like a cloudy pale slime on one????

Logged

redimp

  • Hectare
  • *****
  • Posts: 3,928
  • Colonia Domitiana Lindensium, Flavia Caesariensis
Re: parsnip pests?????
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2009, 13:15:08 »
Mine have got blackfly this year - never had it before.  But everything has blackfly this year.  The ladybirds were very slow off the mark.
Logged
Lotty @ Lincoln (Lat:53.24, Long:-0.52, HASL:30m)

http://www.abicabeauty

simmo116

  • Acre
  • ****
  • Posts: 309
Re: parsnip pests?????
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2009, 18:40:24 »
am depressed now as i've pulled alternate parsnips and every one has bugs on! i've looked in all my books and none of them list what i've got... >:(
Logged

LesH

  • Half Acre
  • ***
  • Posts: 177
Re: parsnip pests?????
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2009, 22:53:16 »
    Parsnip aphids.
Logged

saddad

  • Hectare
  • *****
  • Posts: 17,898
  • Derby, Derbyshire (Strange, but true!)
Re: parsnip pests?????
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2009, 22:54:46 »
Root aphids... rare on Parsnips, prefer lettuce. Bad luck.  :-\
Logged

simmo116

  • Acre
  • ****
  • Posts: 309
Re: parsnip pests?????
« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2009, 16:43:50 »
what can i do to clear/prvent them preforably organic?
Logged

simmo116

  • Acre
  • ****
  • Posts: 309
Re: parsnip pests?????
« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2009, 18:51:48 »
ok so i've been doing some googling... and waht most people recomend is that i spray as for leaf aphids with a fatty acid soap or derris wich i believe is banned... ??? can any one recomend an organic reliable soap?
also as they are being farmed by the ants i need to get thm under control... i have aphids in at least two seperate beds now both on parsnips(succesional) the snips them selves seem fine'ish maybe be a litle canker wich i presume is transmited by the aphids. its not looking good first i lost all my alliums. now it seems i may lose my snips. the only thing thats doing well is the bloody mares tail!!! anyone tried eatting it? lol
Logged

davyw1

  • Hectare
  • *****
  • Posts: 2,530
  • I love My Country
Re: parsnip pests?????
« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2009, 21:10:42 »
This may help you some different recipies, or you can buy Savona, my preference which i have put on before is Stergene washing up liquid.
Whatever you use organicaly remember the resuts are slow.

http://www.lpgardening.co.uk/Pages/16%20recipes.htm

If anyone has a problem with white fly try Stergene it does work.
« Last Edit: July 20, 2009, 21:38:39 by davyw1 »
Logged
When you wake up on a morning say "good morning world" and be grateful

DAVY

Digeroo

  • Hectare
  • *****
  • Posts: 9,578
  • Cotswolds - Gravel - Alkaline
Re: parsnip pests?????
« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2009, 21:19:45 »
Quote
they are being farmed by the ants

I keep tell people that blackfly on the broad beans etc are farmed by the ants and everyone thinks I am mad.

There will be an ant day soon and I get squashing all those flying princes and princesses before they get time to become queens. 
Logged

simmo116

  • Acre
  • ****
  • Posts: 309
Re: parsnip pests?????
« Reply #9 on: July 22, 2009, 19:09:37 »
there on my radishes now!!!! also little maggots on me snips. im thinking carrot fly?
Logged

saddad

  • Hectare
  • *****
  • Posts: 17,898
  • Derby, Derbyshire (Strange, but true!)
Re: parsnip pests?????
« Reply #10 on: July 23, 2009, 23:39:38 »
Carrot fly can attack parsnips...  :-X
Logged
Pages: [1]
« previous next »
 
SimplePortal 2.3.5 © 2008-2012, SimplePortal