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Grrrr....cabbage whites....
"David.WE.Roberts" wrote I've sown some old greyhound cabbage seeds in trays to see if they were still viable and have had a few germinate. So I had perhaps 6-8 seedlings in two mushroom trays (the brown ones you buy mushrooms in) out on a shelf down the garden, waiting to be planted out. Yesterday they were surrounded by a crowd of cabbage white butterflies, and the tiny leaves were covered top and bottom with little white posts which I assume are eggs. [...] I am seriously considering doing the same because nothing is worse than putting in a load of work and a load of plants just to see them all eaten. Oh dear. I know the feeling. My broccoli plants kept getting eaten into green lace each year, despite the usual net, so this time I've made a cage with brand new netting which is smaller gauge (5x7mm) and so far they've not been able to shimmy their way through, despite trying hard. I remembered to put cardboard collars to defeat cabbage root fly too, which was another pest that attacked last year. There does seem to be a sudden huge increase in white butterfly numbers over the last few days. The garden's alive with them atm; they seem to be partial to Scabious or Lavender flowers when they can't get brassicas. -- Sue |
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