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Title: SO SMUG - fatal!!
Post by: tim on June 15, 2006, 07:14:43
Only seen 2 cabbage whites this year - and I'm SO good about mesh etc. Just doing a changeover of cover this morning & found one Calabrese plant decimated by caterpillars.

There must be a lesson there somewhere?
Title: Re: SO SMUG - fatal!!
Post by: supersprout on June 15, 2006, 07:48:53
don't change the covers?

;)

the mumma probably got trapped under the previous cover and thought, that's another fine mesh you've got me into ;D
Title: Re: SO SMUG - fatal!!
Post by: busy_lizzie on June 15, 2006, 08:02:36
We haven't seen many either this year, strangely enough - perhaps the prolonged winter! I always net everything, for as well as cabbage whites we have lots of pigeons on our site, so unless you want your brassica completely decimated it's the only way to go, but I suppose "where there is a will there is a way"!  :) busy_lizzie
Title: Re: SO SMUG - fatal!!
Post by: tim on June 15, 2006, 08:10:51
Nice one, Sprouty!
Title: Re: SO SMUG - fatal!!
Post by: Svea on June 15, 2006, 11:44:11
i dont have any trouble with caterpillars until much later- august and beyond. weird
Title: Re: SO SMUG - fatal!!
Post by: basketcase on June 15, 2006, 13:52:39
Busy_lizzie: "We haven't seen many either this year,"

Do you think that's because they're all under tim's cover?

;D
Title: Re: SO SMUG - fatal!!
Post by: tim on June 15, 2006, 17:52:06
One thing I like about mesh - which I have just put on - is that you can see the ....... when they get in.
Title: Re: SO SMUG - fatal!!
Post by: saddad on June 15, 2006, 18:50:16
Was feeling much the same about the absence of sawfly on my Solomon's seal until the other night!
:-X
Title: Re: SO SMUG - fatal!!
Post by: AndrewB on June 15, 2006, 21:55:22
Blimey is that your greenhouse,  think you have my dream garden having seen other pics in the past