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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: tim on October 15, 2007, 17:22:39

Title: Looking good, despite the whitefly.
Post by: tim on October 15, 2007, 17:22:39
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Title: Re: Looking good, despite the whitefly.
Post by: Stevens706 on October 15, 2007, 17:36:48
Excellent Tim, I had a picking last week, but some of the lower sprouts had brown outer leaves, maybe slugs??
Title: Re: Looking good, despite the whitefly.
Post by: calendula on October 15, 2007, 17:38:03
green with envy lovely though

my earlies are smaller than the later varieties - I'm going to snip the heads of and eat them so as to make the sprouts swell (according to Bob Flowerdew)
Title: Re: Looking good, despite the whitefly.
Post by: cornykev on October 15, 2007, 20:57:47
Look lovely Tim, bloody white fly though, even when I pull a weed up they are coming out the ground.  :'( :(       ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Looking good, despite the whitefly.
Post by: Uncle Joshua on October 15, 2007, 20:59:38
They look great, mine are pea sized.
Title: Re: Looking good, despite the whitefly.
Post by: SnooziSuzi on October 15, 2007, 22:09:17
Quote from: cornykev on October 15, 2007, 20:57:47
Look lovely Tim, bloody white fly though, even when I pull a weed up they are coming out the ground.  :'( :(       ;D ;D ;D

I had fun blasting mine with a soapy spray yesterday!  It's great to watch them all fall out of the air and die on the soil! >:)
Title: Re: Looking good, despite the whitefly.
Post by: valentinelow on October 16, 2007, 11:03:16
How DO people get rid of whitefly, apart from soapy spray? I have seen people use sticky yellow plastic things which seem to act like flypaper, but I have no idea where to get them - or indeed whether they work.
Title: Re: Looking good, despite the whitefly.
Post by: tim on October 16, 2007, 11:19:00
Tried the stickyt hings but the Whitefly don't stick.