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Produce => Pests & Diseases => Topic started by: roycurwen1 on May 23, 2011, 21:45:48

Title: somethings eaten my cabbage
Post by: roycurwen1 on May 23, 2011, 21:45:48
 >:(Somethings eaten my leaves on my young cabbage plants .It  seams to be eating the leaves from the outside edge inward any ideas pleas Thanks Roy.
Title: Re: somethings eaten my cabbage
Post by: Ellen K on May 23, 2011, 22:14:31
May I ask: are they netted against pigeons?
Title: Re: somethings eaten my cabbage
Post by: manicscousers on May 23, 2011, 22:14:53
slugs, pigeons, are they under cover or are there slime trails, our slugs are very active now it's gone damp  :)
oops, snap  ;D
Title: Re: somethings eaten my cabbage
Post by: roycurwen1 on May 23, 2011, 22:43:08
Thanks for the quick replies .No netting over area .No slime trails  and i have pellets down .  Any more suggestion's .Thanks Roy
Title: Re: somethings eaten my cabbage
Post by: chriscross1966 on May 23, 2011, 23:26:50
Quote from: roycurwen1 on May 23, 2011, 22:43:08
Thanks for the quick replies .No netting over area .No slime trails  and i have pellets down .  Any more suggestion's .Thanks Roy

Pigeons.... round our way we have to net the peas too.....
Title: Re: somethings eaten my cabbage
Post by: RSJK on May 26, 2011, 22:22:47
If they are seedlings it could be flee beetle
Title: Re: somethings eaten my cabbage
Post by: Morris on May 28, 2011, 20:12:12
Quote from: chriscross1966 on May 23, 2011, 23:26:50
Quote from: roycurwen1 on May 23, 2011, 22:43:08
Thanks for the quick replies .No netting over area .No slime trails  and i have pellets down .  Any more suggestion's .Thanks Roy

Pigeons.... round our way we have to net the peas too.....

Ha, don't talk to me about pigeons. Round my way we have to net peas, beans, beetroot, lettuce - anything with a remotely succulent leaf and they will scoff it. The leaves off my fruit trees ... B******d birds.

Pigeons eat in a distinctive way, I find. They shred the leaves so they look tattered, and leave the midribs mostly intact (until they come back the next day and have those as well, if they are very hungry...   >:( >:(
Title: Re: somethings eaten my cabbage
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on May 29, 2011, 18:38:59
Same here, it gets worse every year. I don't have much trouble with slugs, but I have peas underplanted with brassicas, locked in behind mesh, for fear of the pigeons.