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whats eating my kale

  • 25-06-2011 10:27pm
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    keep going
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    kale sown less than a month ago seems to be getting eat by something.there was a few pinholes in some of it but today it looks like something bigger is at it


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  • #2
    LostCovey
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    keep going wrote: »
    kale sown less than a month ago seems to be getting eat by something.there was a few pinholes in some of it but today it looks like something bigger is at it

    Woodpigeons?


  • #3
    dar31
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    pin holes- frit fly / flea beetle cant remember which one- spray
    transparent window like hole- slugs-- pellets
    leaves eaten along main veins of plant- caterpillars-- cry, not much you can do
    heap of birds in the crop- wood pigeon-- ring local gun club/wait for the nearest drop of osr to be desecrated.
    ring the crowd you got the seed off and get them to walk the crop.
    really need to be checking it every second day at a minimum of the next month or so.
    how many leaves are showing, to early for caterpillars
    have put up some frights this year, made up of some steaks with a lat nailed to the top and some old cds dangling from it, seems to work for the pigeons. crows just ignore them.


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    blue5000
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    Can you post a few photos. If the plant is well established it is probably catterpillars, still small might be greenfly, but I'm only guessing here. What was the previous crop? Sorry I'm not much help I know.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #5
    LostCovey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭LostCovey


    dar31 wrote: »
    pin holes- frit fly / flea beetle cant remember which one- spray
    transparent window like hole- slugs-- pellets
    leaves eaten along main veins of plant- caterpillars-- cry, not much you can do
    heap of birds in the crop- wood pigeon-- ring local gun club/wait for the nearest drop of osr to be desecrated.
    ring the crowd you got the seed off and get them to walk the crop.
    really need to be checking it every second day at a minimum of the next month or so.
    how many leaves are showing, to early for caterpillars
    have put up some frights this year, made up of some steaks with a lat nailed to the top and some old cds dangling from it, seems to work for the pigeons. crows just ignore them.

    osr?


  • #6
    Bizzum
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    Oil Seed Rape.


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  • #7
    bob charles
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    would think its some sort of leaf miner,flea beetle or fruit fly. Spray with Karate Zeon from Syngenta or similar type Insecticide, but you would have to post pictures to be sure


  • #8
    keep going
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    its staring to motor now so will probaly beat it but if the dry weather continued it would knock it back alot not gr8 at loading pictures but we ll see thanks


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