Just about the only things you can safely use on edible crops and which might work against beetles is diatomaceous earth or neem oil, Lynn.
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I wonder if there are also flea beetles present and it is those which are causing the damage with the pollen beetles just being incidental, Dove? It would be difficult to tell as the flea beetles would jump off at the slightest disturbance.
I wonder if there are also flea beetles present and it is those which are causing the damage with the pollen beetles just being incidental, Dove?
It would be difficult to tell as the flea beetles would jump off at the slightest disturbance.
That makes sense Bob - it's a rare garden that has only one type of insect in it.
Lyn, there's nothing that I would spray on stuff that I was going to eat.
This may be helpful http://gardenofeaden.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/how-to-control-flea-beetles-on-lettuce.html
Hope that's helpful
Thanks I have already destroyed that lettuce and started again, in a new pot with new compost, hopefully they will leave it alone this time.
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Just about the only things you can safely use on edible crops and which might work against beetles is diatomaceous earth or neem oil, Lynn.
That makes sense Bob - it's a rare garden that has only one type of insect in it.
Lyn, there's nothing that I would spray on stuff that I was going to eat.
This may be helpful http://gardenofeaden.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/how-to-control-flea-beetles-on-lettuce.html
Hope that's helpful
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks I have already destroyed that lettuce and started again, in a new pot with new compost, hopefully they will leave it alone this time.