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Damage to plant leaves irretrievable or not?
All the leaves of my brussel sprouts and calabrese have been badly
attacked by something or other which has left my tomato plants alone. A lot of them look like they have been deeply bitten or cut with something with serated edges. There are foxes around here but they don't nibble greens do they? Slugs? But I haven't seen any. Anyway, is it worth looking after these plants any more? Will they regenerate their damaged leaves or should I call it a day? |
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Damage to plant leaves irretrievable or not?
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oups.com... All the leaves of my brussel sprouts and calabrese have been badly attacked by something or other which has left my tomato plants alone. A lot of them look like they have been deeply bitten or cut with something with serated edges. There are foxes around here but they don't nibble greens do they? Slugs? But I haven't seen any. Anyway, is it worth looking after these plants any more? Will they regenerate their damaged leaves or should I call it a day? Rabbits? I've had to cover my plants because there's been a baby bunny hopping around the neighbour's allotment, nibbling his lettuce (and there's no such thing as "one" rabbit). And I saw pigeons pecking plants on another neighbouring allotment. I'm new to growing veggies, but if your nibbled plants are sprouts and calabrese and there are still some leaves remaining, I'd wait a couple of weeks to see if they recover. |
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Damage to plant leaves irretrievable or not?
"Jane" wrote in message news wrote in message oups.com... All the leaves of my brussel sprouts and calabrese have been badly attacked by something or other which has left my tomato plants alone. A lot of them look like they have been deeply bitten or cut with something with serated edges. There are foxes around here but they don't nibble greens do they? Slugs? But I haven't seen any. Anyway, is it worth looking after these plants any more? Will they regenerate their damaged leaves or should I call it a day? Rabbits? I've had to cover my plants because there's been a baby bunny hopping around the neighbour's allotment, nibbling his lettuce (and there's no such thing as "one" rabbit). And I saw pigeons pecking plants on another neighbouring allotment. I'm new to growing veggies, but if your nibbled plants are sprouts and calabrese and there are still some leaves remaining, I'd wait a couple of weeks to see if they recover. Could well be pigeons or pheasants-leaves appear to have been cut by scissors. Protect with nets, redundant Cds hung around the critical area. Rabbits like young brasiccas, nets would have to be down to the ground. An old gardener in Cheshire used to lay 2 litre transparent fizy pop(clear polyester) bottle half filled with water amongst his plants to deter rabbits. The internal reflexion+ lens effect used to frighten them. I had trouble with rabbits eating brassicas, strawberry plants and runner beans and found nets (and a cat) to be effective. Ammonium aluminium sulphate (ammonium alum) used to be sold as a spray on deterrent for food crops. If the brassicas have developed a decent root system-say 4mm diameter or more at the stem, they may have enough oomph to recover. Regards David T |
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Many thanks to all for suggestions. We do have a lot of pigeons round
here, so maybe that's the answer. |
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Damage to plant leaves irretrievable or not?
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oups.com... Many thanks to all for suggestions. We do have a lot of pigeons round here, so maybe that's the answer. I previously mentioned a rabbit on my allotment -- now I have a mole! It's dug a long tunnel under my paths, making a real mess of the newly-laid bark chips. The tunnel made its way to the lettuce that I've just covered to keep off the rabbit, but obviously the cover won't keep out the mole. Whatever next ! |
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Damage to plant leaves irretrievable or not?
"Sena" wrote in message t... said... wrote in message oups.com... Many thanks to all for suggestions. We do have a lot of pigeons round here, so maybe that's the answer. I previously mentioned a rabbit on my allotment -- now I have a mole! It's dug a long tunnel under my paths, making a real mess of the newly-laid bark chips. The tunnel made its way to the lettuce that I've just covered to keep off the rabbit, but obviously the cover won't keep out the mole. Whatever next ! Do moles eat lettuce? I thought they were wormivores, or whatever the correct term is. -- To reply see 'from' in headers; lose the domain, and insert dots and @ where common sense dictates. Moles leave unsigghtly hills, but don't usually cause much plant damage. Regards David T |
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Damage to plant leaves irretrievable or not?
I have now actually seen a pigeon eating the leaves, so that solves the
mystery. Ken Cohen |
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