I have planted some baby Winter cabbage plants on my allotment, and although I have a cage of netting over them they are still being eaten! Can anyone help as I beginning to despair ???as it happened to my first batch I planted too and they all ended up just stalks poking out the ground! :'(
It could be slugs or snails.
Yes snails or slugs,try going out in the wet to pick them off or at night.Put beer in a cup sunk into the ground.Surround them with coffee used beans.
Hate slug pellets because they damage so much of the wild life.
Or nemaslug..expensive but it works.
Thank you for all your replies! Do you think it would be OK to cut some plastic bottles in half and cover the cabbages? Would this stop them, or would i damage the cabbages growth? Sorry, I am just starting out and everything is still a mystery!
I put netting over my collys, I think 15mm mesh but I found the butterflies can still fly through, and lay their eggs.
Next year Gritgtit, bring them on in pots and plant them as ' near cabbages ' ,
- too much for them to chew and the plant is stronger, as for now --- all that has been said will
help you now, ;)
AKAIK, the iron phosphate slug pellets are not harmful to other wildlife.
I know it's not me......
as been as they are covered, try some slug pellets... just a few and see if there's anything there in the morning. You can remove the dead slugs to stop them being eateby wildlife?