White fly

[pumpkin grower]

Hi
please could you help me i have just taken over mt allotment this year i have had some sucess but i have been plagued by white fly, i am trying to do everything organicly what can i do

[Geordie]

Try and get hold of some NEEM OIL from health / foodie type shop, mix with water and use as a spray. Otherwise try soapy water as a spray. This should work.

[Hazel at the Hill]

Or hope for a really decent spell of cold cold weather, which will kill them off.

[Alice]

Good advice Geordie, but where can you actually buy Neem oil. I think we've talked about the bananas before.

[Shortie]

Is that the banana in his ear Alice?

Hmm.. I'll be hoping for a cold snap too then - we have white fly down our lottie too

[wormlady]

You can get neem from Home, look for outdoor or garden neem, I think its about £12 or so.

[dexterdoglancashire]

Are white fly the 'orrible little b*****s that have infested my sprouts? I pulled some up and put them in the car.................guess who's car now has some little white flies in it? Bernie aka Dexterdog

[rustylady]

Yes I would think so DDL. Usually as soon as you touch the plants you get clouds of little tiny white things that look like minibutterflies or moths. I've had terrible problems with them over the past 2 years. Hoping for a good hard frost to kill them off before next year, otherwise I will have to resort to spraying, and I really don't want to.

[Hazel at the Hill]

Um - dumb q alert!

What's the big problem with whitefly? Yes, I've had clouds of them on the swede/turnip/cauli/kale, but do they actually do any harm to the crop?

[Shortie]

No idea about that Hazel, but not nice to breathe in when you dig over the earth they're in