spinach

[jesssands]

Just wondered...would spinach attract cabbage whites?
Not sure if its a member of the same family

[jesssands]

[chriscross1966]

I thought cabbage whites only attacked edible plants?..... :D.... Actually found one of the blighters in the GH today... he didn't last long....

[cleo]

No

[ed dibbles]

No jesssands

Cabbage whites are only interested in brassicas so they will leave your spinach, which is another species, alone

[jesssands]

thats cool... I have never had any sucess with brassicas, largely down to the catapillars.
But I love greens and would like to be able to grow some. spinach it is!!

[Ninnyscrops.]

thats cool... I have never had any sucess with brassicas, largely down to the catapillars.
But I love greens and would like to be able to grow some. spinach it is!!

If you keep the butterflies out jessands, then no caterpillars on your brassicas ;)

Only pests with spinach are slugs and occasional peckish bird on young growth.

Ninnys