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Do I need to cover Pak Choi ?????
scigib
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This is my first year with an allotment. Very steep learning curve! I have got some Pak Choi seedlings ready for planting.. Having had problems with birds earlier this year nibbling my cabbage seedlings. Do I need to net my Pak Choi ?
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I have a rule for the allotment if it can be eaten cover it, sometimes netting or fleece or cloche depends what's to hand. One young African guy who has just taken over a plot near to me asked how he could get rid of the blackfly which were eating his brassicas, he said that he had sprayed them but still the plants had been eaten down to the stalks, when I had a look there was some sign of what looked like whitefly but I told him that the damage had probably been done by pigeon and that he should net his crops. We have wood pigeon and even worse deer who can do a lot of damage if they decide to pick on your crops. I use netting, homemade windmills, a scarecrow and even human scent poured onto the compost heap, so far so good no deer attack, just slugs, fly, moth, beetle and a hundred other pesky critters who live on allotments.
NET THEM THEN! I assumed so as officially they are brassicas, I was just hoping they were like Chard that were ignored.
We have collared doves, pigeons and the usual herbivores. Thankfully because we are city we don't have anything as exciting as deer.
We're on the edge of town but we have a common next to us which joins open countryside, they are small muntjac deer nothing majestic, strangely I haven't ever seen them in three years of occupation apart from a print in the snow a couple of winters ago.