Tonight I have blanched most of my spinach and to my horror, loads of little white grubs floated to the top of the water! I went through each leaf and found more inbedded in the actual leaf its self, What are these??? Also there are little white flat circles that were floating too!! Even more so I have been picking the spinach and eating it raw in our sandwiches and salads!!!!! Please help!
Hi Claire, sounds like leaf miner fly. I've got it on my spinach too, I'm just careful to harvest leaves which haven't been affected. If you remove and destroy the affected leaves, you may limit the chances of a second generation this year. But they do overwinter in soil and they can also fly.Kate
Thanks kate, the thing thats worried me is I only noticed them when I went to blanch them and the leaves went translucent! I'll inspect each leaf when I next harvest them I got rid of all the larger leaves cos the baby leaves seemed fine!Its knocked me off eating it though!! Thanks again!
No worries Claire. I once blanched some spinach and found a poor caterpillar writhing in agony in the boiling water. It died a few seconds later. Am always really careful to check now.
Cuckoo spit, in my roses, lavendor plants, I get the jet (garden hose) BUT THEY NEXT DAY, plan B, take them out with a damn cloths, this take long time. My grand father, taught me, ash, how to get ash, I normally burn all my paper work,take the ash and just sprinkle on to cuckoo spit. There are seveal way of get rid of them, such joy going around the flowers borders, if you time, patient.
What an encouraging blog. I have noticed cuckoo spit on my lavender this year. It looks a bit odd but I leave it alone as I too have seen an increase in species of wildlife in my garden.When I noticed it a few days ago it cheered me up. Long may it continue . idon't find it a pest at all.
Hmmm, interesting... I've seen there's been a fair amount of cuckoo spit appearing on my rosemary lately and I've just noticed a couple of blobs on adjacent strawberries too, and came online to read more about froghoppers and find out what the best way of getting rid of the spit is - but after what everyone's said here I may well just leave it as most of you don't seem to regard it as a problem as such. I can take a bit of insect poo froth with my herbs
i have always wondered what cuckoo spit is!I found some on my lavender and strawberries the other day. Another wildlife edition to the garden!I have bees living in the roof of the house and a birds nest on the eves.we are getting rather crowded.
So happy to read your comments. Now I know what it is, I found it on the lavander, never seen before. I too have all sorts of wild life in my garden. Love all of it. Hope it will be OK to leave it alone and will not affect other plants?
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BUT THEY NEXT DAY, plan B, take them out
with a damn cloths, this take long time.
My grand father, taught me, ash, how to
get ash, I normally burn all my paper work,take the ash and just sprinkle on to cuckoo spit. There are seveal way of
get rid of them, such joy going around the flowers borders, if you time, patient.
Hope you will enjoy my experience,
thank you
Ramya Perera, Brighton