Can anyone tell me how I get whitefly off my greens. The problem is when I pick my kale and cavalo nero, because the leaves have lots of hiding places for these pesky little critters, I have trouble washing them off. I must have eaten hundreds that I have missed. Is there something I can put in the water and soak the greens in to kill the little blighters?
we use salty water, seems to work, I know what you mean though, our chinese leaves have them on, too :-\
You can get some sticky cards [ most nurseries - though found mine in a local cheapo shop ]
that you can put on sticks in the ground - to catch them when you move the leaves ?
One chap I know used to take the vacuum into the green house - get them all flying and suck
them up !
The things we do ? !! ::)
floss x
Stergine wahing up liquid mixed with water suffercates them
i use Stergine and its fantastic dont know how it works but it does ;)
LoobyLoo, do you mean to rid them on the plot or in cooking? If it's cooking then I do the same as Manics-soak them in salty water. What are left are cooked to death anyhow so I reckon they don't count. ;D I think it's been a very bad year for whitefly this year. Nothing seems to have killed mine off.
washing-up liquid here too ... kill 'em with bubbles !!
Emaggie - it's when I'm cooking them that I have problems. I'm no vegetarian but I'm getting fed up with eating bugs. Dinner time is like a bush-tucker trial some nights!
Thanks for all the advice. I'll try all of them and see how I fare.
yea I,d say a short soak in salt water then another rinse before cooking
can,t say I fancy eating soapy veg
marg