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Beetroot leaf issues

krinkle82krinkle82 Posts: 2
in Fruit & veg
Hello, this is my first ever post on a gardening forum! I’m growing boltardy beetroot in containers, and these lesions have appeared on the leaves, I didn’t think they looked exactly like the beet leaf miner or cercospora disease examples i’ve seen on pictures, but I may be wrong. Please could anyone help identify what this is and what I can do to treat it / prevent it in future? Many thanks :-) 

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited May 2019
    Hello @krinkle82 and welcome 😊 
    I think that’s the result of a leaf miner insect/grub  ... my beet of all sorts often get these but usually it doesn’t do enough damage to prevent the beet growing well, so I ignore it. 

    Hope that helps 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • bookmonsterbookmonster Posts: 399
    it does look a lot like the leaf miner my beets got this year, they're mostly already recovered.
  • Womble54Womble54 Posts: 348
    I think my beetroot and spinach beets has been savaged by leaf miners too, look similar to yours but a lot worse. Fingers crossed both of ours recover too.
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