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Title: pea & bean weevil
Post by: debjay on April 20, 2007, 08:48:35
 :( hi
is anybody body else suffering from the pea & bean weevil ?
my peas look as though they have cut with pinking shears >:(
will spraying with soft soap help? :-\
thanx debs
Title: Re: pea & bean weevil
Post by: adrianhumph on April 20, 2007, 08:56:57
 Hi debjay,  :D
                       I think everyones peas & broad beans are getting hit this year by them, mine certainly are,  :(  There have been several post on the subject, look in the search section. However most people consider them not too much of a nuisance & the peas & beans shrug off the attacks when they get growing strongly.

                                                                      Adrian.
Title: Re: pea & bean weevil
Post by: kippers garden on April 21, 2007, 13:41:46
Yes, i posted in a different place yesterday about this as i didn't know what they were.

I'm praying my seedlings are big enough to cope with them.
Title: Re: pea & bean weevil
Post by: Jitterbug on May 01, 2007, 12:44:46
My first sowings of peas were almost dessimated and I had to resow.  I have now planted out my mange tout and they are also being chomped away.  Not sure what to do.  I will do a search to find the other thread.

In the Kitchen Garden, April edition they advise to use Vitax Py Powder which will control the Bean Weevils and Aphids....

Is this organic though???

Jitterbug
Title: Re: pea & bean weevil
Post by: debjay on May 01, 2007, 13:24:01
hi
here is the web page for vitax
http://www.vitax.co.uk/
hope it helps
debs :)
Title: Re: pea & bean weevil
Post by: Multiveg on May 01, 2007, 14:49:53
Most of my direct-sown seedlings have outgrown the earlier devastation by those pesky weevils.
Title: Re: pea & bean weevil
Post by: Jitterbug on May 02, 2007, 14:57:06
Thanks Debjay - its organic.  Guess what I'm buying this we??

Jitterbug