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Veg & fruit advice please

Lynn142Lynn142 Posts: 128
in Fruit & veg
We have 2 large raised vegetable beds which, last year, had cabbage, kale, lettuce, & cauliflower but they were all badly eaten. We regularly put organic pellets around the veggies but we also had a bad insect infestation which we found out us off eating some of these veggies. Can anyone please advise what else, if anything we can do, to prevent an insect infestation in this year’s plants.

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  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Depends on how large, but you could consider netting them with a fine mesh, such as enviromesh or fine mesh builders debris netting.  You only need to use it on susceptible crops, such as brassicas.  4mm is the maximum mesh size to keep out cabbge white  butterflies.  Envromesh will keep out smaller things like carrot fly, too.

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Lynn142Lynn142 Posts: 128
    Thanks @BobTheGardener for your advice. 
  • Paul MathewsPaul Mathews Posts: 1
     Not able to download photos of the rhubarb- 1 is Victoria and the other Stockbridge Arrow -this is their 2nd year and they are both in flower? Are they eatable?


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