Topic: Whos eating my cabbages?!

[Gritgrit]

I have planted some baby Winter cabbage plants on my allotment, and although I have a cage of netting over them they are still being eaten! Can anyone help as I beginning to despair  ???as it happened to my first batch I planted too and they all ended up just stalks poking out the ground!  :'(

[grawrc]

It could be slugs or snails.

[betula]

Yes snails or slugs,try going out in the wet to pick them off or at night.Put beer in a cup sunk into the ground.Surround them with coffee used beans.

Hate slug pellets because they damage so much of the wild life.

[grawrc]

Or nemaslug..expensive but it works.

[Gritgrit]

Thank you for all your replies! Do you think it would be OK to cut some plastic bottles in half and cover the cabbages? Would this stop them, or would i damage the cabbages growth? Sorry, I am just starting out and everything is still a mystery!

[Chrispy]

I put netting over my collys, I think 15mm mesh but I found the butterflies can still fly through, and lay their eggs.

[flossy]

  Next year Gritgtit, bring them on in pots and plant them as '  near  cabbages ' ,

  - too much for them to chew and the plant is stronger,  as for now  ---  all that has been said will

   help you now,    ;)

[MrBean]

AKAIK, the iron phosphate slug pellets are not harmful to other wildlife.

[Jokerman]

I know it's not me......

as been as they are covered, try some slug pellets... just a few and see if there's anything there in the morning. You can remove the dead slugs to stop them being eateby wildlife?