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Title: Check you brassicas
Post by: sandersj89 on May 07, 2005, 09:56:03

....just spent 10 minutes in the greenhouses, coldframes wiping of cabbage white butterfly eggs from the bottoms of the leaves.

Jerry

Title: Re: Check you brassicas
Post by: tim on May 07, 2005, 09:57:06

Already?? Is there no respite??

Title: Re: Check you brassicas
Post by: sandersj89 on May 07, 2005, 10:54:24

Quote from: tim on May 07, 2005, 09:57:06
Already?? Is there no respite??

Exactly what I thought when I spoted the little yellow eggs!!

Jerry

Title: Re: Check you brassicas
Post by: westsussexlottie on May 07, 2005, 15:27:36

netted mine last week.... phew!

Title: Re: Check you brassicas
Post by: RSJK on May 08, 2005, 13:43:00

Yes been up the allotment and there is no end of the Bl!!!!y things about, people walking by thinking I have gone nuts when they see me chasing the things.
;D ;D

Title: Re: Check you brassicas
Post by: Mrs Ava on May 09, 2005, 22:20:31

Tis never ending! On Christmas eve as I gathered kale for chrimble lunch, I could only harvest half the planned amount as the darned caterpillars had munched the rest! They were still appearing well into February, even after I squidged and squashed. GGRR!

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