flea beetle
 

Anybody out there got any good "cure" for these little blighters? I have
tried several times to grow rocket and Chinese cabbage and every time they
either don't come up or rapidly look like they have been blasted with a
shotgun. I grow my cabbages etc in modules and plant them out which seems
to get them past the sensitive period. I have tried derris dust but the
flea beetles round here (Berkshire) don't seem worried by it.

George

flea beetle
 

George wrote
Anybody out there got any good "cure" for these little blighters? I have
tried several times to grow rocket and Chinese cabbage and every time they
either don't come up or rapidly look like they have been blasted with a
shotgun. I grow my cabbages etc in modules and plant them out which seems
to get them past the sensitive period. I have tried derris dust but the
flea beetles round here (Berkshire) don't seem worried by it.

I always find Derris Dust works OK, strange it doesn't with you.

--
Regards
Bob Hobden
17mls W. of London.UK

flea beetle
 

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Anybody out there got any good "cure" for these little blighters? I have
tried several times to grow rocket and Chinese cabbage and every time they
either don't come up or rapidly look like they have been blasted with a
shotgun. I grow my cabbages etc in modules and plant them out which seems
to get them past the sensitive period. I have tried derris dust but the
flea beetles round here (Berkshire) don't seem worried by it.

George


Cover them with fleece until they reach a good size.

Janet G