Topic: Raspberries

[shirlton]

What can you do to prevent getting the maggots in raspberries and blackberries?

[shirlton]

Come on someone must know ;D

[Flighty]

Sorry Shirl I don't! 
I grow and eat both and have had no such problem, that I'm aware of!

[saddad]

Napalm... or some other chemical... I work round them. The raspberry seed beetle is irritating but the slugs and snails eat more fruit... I probably have eaten the odd caterpillar..  ::)

[Robert_Brenchley]

It's all extra protein.

[Sholls]

What can you do to prevent getting the maggots in raspberries and blackberries?

Last week Beechgrove showed a reasonably compact trap that commercial growers have been trialing; apparently if the manufacturers get good feedback it should be released to the general market next year. Personally, I thought it looked like one of those kids windmills you'd pick up at the seaside mounted horizontally above a trap (bowl). I think the premise was, bug smacks into trap, brains itself & falls into bowl...

Personally, I'd like to know if there are any solutions on the market right now, because Raspberry bugs thrive in my neck of the woods. (And I'm a veggie. ;) )

[shirlton]

I always look on TeeGees website for info but I ask the question on here because there is almost certainly someone else having the problem. The treatment of blackberrys and raspberries is different. The blackberry you spray in the flower stage but the rspberry when they start to change colour. Thanks for the info TeeGee but I'm afraid it's too late to treat either so for this year I will just have to close my eyes and eat them.