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Slugs (or whatever love my purple broccoli
Javi.xeneize
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in Fruit & veg
Hii have just realised that somebody is having feast with my purple broccoli. Do you know which animal would it be? I placed slugs pellets and this didn’t make any effect
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
how can I protect it from them?
We’ve built a frame with wood and mesh to protect ours from pigeons and Cabbage Whites.
You may not have the space for that, but some sort of frame with mesh or netting will do the job against pigeons. Mesh works for the butterflies earlier in the year too, but hopefully not so important now.
Or you can make little wire cages like the ones you can see over our radicchio ... but they won't be big enough for the winter when they've grown three feet tall.
Before you protect them they need splitting up and planting out further apart and probably in fresh compost too. They need to be a couple of feet apart ... they grow into large plants.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
identify the culprit so put slug pellets down which dealt with a few slugs but the munching continued so I heavily drenched each plant with washing up liquid diluted in water. That has done the trick.
Have just treated one variety of my dahlias. The buds were being munched when half open, I checked for earwigs etc. but couldn't see anything. Am going to check today to see if my plan of action has helped. The odd thing is only one variety was being attacked, all of the the others are flowering normally.