Pics of my cabbage, has a few holes ;)

[Chris Graham]

I should be getting some enviromesh soon and i hope its not too late.

As you can see the cabbage have been eatten quite badly.

[Chris Graham]

[MrsKP]

get the hose out on the caterpillars !  i coudn't be bothered waiting for mine so harvested the whole d**n lot at the weekend.  They didn't seem to be getting any bigger and i was losing more and more leaves, due to mass caterpillar destruction.

i ended up getting about two meals out of it and that was my lot.

:'(

[Roy Bham UK]

 :'( Mine are exactly like that some are even worse, not sure how the enviromesh will help against slugs tho :-\

Here's a pic of a couple of my better cabbages and caulie and cues and carrots ;D and beetroot and beans ;D any excuse for a photo me. ;D

[Chris Graham]

wow those look great !

The beets are some size, mine are all dead :(    :'( :'( :'(

[MrsKP]

nice pics Roy. 

i had good beet.  never eaten so much of it in me life before !!!   ;D

[Rosyred]

Well when I got back from holiday two cabbages that were alot bigger than yours had been eaten all down one side. I decided to pull them all up and underneath were 3 fat slugs all sleeping after their heavy breakfast, well I send them away in there dreams, and had the the cabbage for dinner this evening.

[Mrs Ava]

Jealous of those caulis Roy!!

[keef]

Apparantly - if you leave a cabbage or cauliflower in a bowl of slightly salty water overnight, it will draw all the catterpillers out - although leaving all their sh*t behind of course.

[dirtyfingernails]

slugs got all my caulis - and even though I had enviromesh over my cabbages there was a cabbage white butterfly inside the net! (must have crawled in there as a caterpillar when I wasn't looking)

[mc55]

slugs have moved into the tomatos and are munching their way through the crop - buggers, need to decide a plan of attack

[supersprout]

Wow that trayful is an eyeful Roy! Grand caulis (dead jealous!) ;D

[allanwoolley]

I'm sorry to have to inform you 'dirtyfingernails' but butterflies smell the brassicas and squeeze themselves in between the tiny mesh squares of the protective netting.   I know it sounds unbelievable but we have watched them.

[Simon05]

good caulis roy any tips for going them that well  ;D

[saddad]

and then forget the way out Allan!
;D

[weedbusta]

i used builders scaffolding net and some slug pellets and it seemed to work well. cheap as well, i ate my last primo cabbage tonight  :'(, i need to plant more in succesion next year

[Roy Bham UK]

;D Thanks for the kind words Guys ;) I can't throw any light on why the caulies come good other than what I said in Emma's thread on Caulies, just to add to the confusion, the caulies above in the picture were grown under netting but there was a yellowy one in there and the caulies I have growing in the opposite bed are left uncovered and appear to be coming on fine, other than being attacked by the usual pests, pictures to follow ;D