Caterpillar catastrophe!

Mr. Presentable

Suddenly my sprouts plants are being savaged. Not so much on the broccolli. But there's a couple of different types, the yellow and green one from the cabbage white butterfly, and a squat, slate coloured one that hides in the folds of the leaf.

I don't want to use poison, but I need to get rid of them. What are your suggestions/experiences? Picking them is not a practical option.

r3nu4l

nipplenuts wrote: »

Picking them is not a practical option.

If you don't want to use anything then picking them may be your only option. At the weekend I removed 17 tiny caterpillars from my cabbages. The week before I removed 47 large caterpillars, having gone tot he garden to see they had destroyed 7 cabbages and badly damaged 4 :mad:

I have also picked 34 caterpillars off my raspberry bushes. It takes a while but it's necessary. Unless you have hundreds of them it shouldn't take too long.

Next year I'll be laying fleece clotches on my cabbages as they grow, that should help keep the butterflies off. You could try removing them all by hand and covering the plants in plastic sheeting or fleece...

Mr. Presentable

Thanks. What I'd really like is my own army of tits!

NextSteps

nipplenuts wrote: »

Thanks. What I'd really like is my own army of tits!

Ahem.

telecaster

theres a lot to be said for hanging nuts and seeds for wild birds around your veg patch. It should attract at least a platoon of tits if not quite an army

bauderline

nipplenuts wrote: »

Thanks. What I'd really like is my own army of tits!

.... try leinster house ......