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jesssands
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Cabbage white help needed
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July 26, 2008, 11:18:06 »
I am having a job keeping off the dreaded things, they have laid eggs and I have been out and scrubbed them off with soapy water. Is there anything I can do to help now? I am suspecting a few have hatched, as there are a few with holes in.
Also, if the leaves get eaten will this effect the sweede? being a root veg?
Have brussels and cabbage too.
Guess I should have netted them, but too late now!
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Hectare
Posts: 4,070
Northampton, sm greenhouse, heated propagator
Re: Cabbage white help needed
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July 26, 2008, 18:25:52 »
Yes too late to net them. Im having the same problem this year as are many others.
I have heard that a strong boiled garlic solution helps if sprayed on the leaves. But I dont have spare garlic for that purpose. So like you I hand pick.......a pain though aint it.
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tim
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Re: Cabbage white help needed
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July 26, 2008, 18:31:52 »
Let's be different. As usual!!
1. NOT too late to net. They have only just started their invasion.
2. Whatever the plant, be they eggs or caterpillars, just squidge them. Quick & easy!
3. BUT - having netted, you have to do a thorough check for them at least each week.
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Hectare
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Northampton, sm greenhouse, heated propagator
Re: Cabbage white help needed
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July 26, 2008, 18:34:12 »
;D ;D ;D Quite right Tim.....I best get on and do mine then!!
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tim
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Re: Cabbage white help needed
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Reply #4 on:
July 26, 2008, 18:45:56 »
Get the Cat to help you??
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jesssands
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Re: Cabbage white help needed
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Reply #5 on:
July 26, 2008, 21:31:06 »
do you know when the danger period is over?
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tim
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Re: Cabbage white help needed
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Reply #6 on:
July 27, 2008, 08:18:51 »
When they stop!!
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Hectare
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Amber valley,Derbyshire
Re: Cabbage white help needed
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July 27, 2008, 08:57:22 »
Cabbage whites normally active between July and September.
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saddad
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Derby, Derbyshire (Strange, but true!)
Re: Cabbage white help needed
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July 27, 2008, 10:49:11 »
It won't affect your eating the swede, if they are big enough, but will stop them growing if the Caterpillars take off all the leaves... :)
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jesssands
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Re: Cabbage white help needed
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July 27, 2008, 15:24:54 »
Will deffo net next year, but for this year, I am disapointed :( ,Should have known better! I just don't think as we both work all week, I will be able to spend time checking and checking, sadly I have them in 3 separate areas of the garden.
Next year will nett them and plant all the brassica family together.
For now tho, is there a spray or something I could use? Before I end up losing the lot?
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Hectare
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Amber valley,Derbyshire
Re: Cabbage white help needed
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July 27, 2008, 15:27:27 »
There are numerous sprays you can use....depends if you like using chemicals though.
At the first signs of attack by the cabbage white I had the sprayer out and sprayed with "Rapid".....says on the bottle its harmless to ladybirds so i used it.
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manicscousers
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Re: Cabbage white help needed
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Reply #11 on:
July 27, 2008, 16:13:07 »
liquid derris does for caterpillars :)
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tim
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Re: Cabbage white help needed
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July 27, 2008, 16:21:22 »
Sprays.
Once again, they have to actually hit the pests, & that is always difficult. Most are on the undersides of the leaves.
2. You don't
know
that you've hit them.
3. Finger & thumb takes little longer & is positive.
4. Niether Rapid nor Derris - correct me if I'm wrong - will kill eggs. So you have ti wait until Caterpillars are causing diamage before you can act?
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bedrockdave
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Re: Cabbage white help needed
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Reply #13 on:
July 27, 2008, 19:12:18 »
Ive had no probs so far this year but I keep watering with a solution of water that has had rhubarb leaves rotting in it , It smells AWFUL ( i have to do it when the better half isn't there) but it keeps the whites away
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tim
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Re: Cabbage white help needed
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Reply #14 on:
July 27, 2008, 19:22:44 »
And then you
eat
the Cabbages??!!
Oh, my spelling on the previous post!
No problems?
You mean that nothing has yet been eaten? Well, it's a bit early for that?
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Jeannine
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Mapleridge BC Canada
Re: Cabbage white help needed
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Reply #15 on:
July 28, 2008, 02:58:02 »
We have four cats camping out over my brassica bed, I don't think they have missed many, as they are chomping on the whites every time I look, and so far no sign of nibbles on the eggies.
XX Jeannine
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