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When there's no cabbage left?
Seriously, I have only managed to get a decent crop of cabbages this winter by keeping the butterflies off. Netting is the only way.
Went doen the Allotment yesterday and one pf my cabbages were covered in fat catapillars, when do they die out
marion
When you spray them with something noxious (making your cabbage unfit to eat), pull them all of by hand and squish them or as Flum said when they've finished the cabbage. Seriously, frost should finish them off but we've had relatively mild winters lately and I've still got whitefly on my allotment. I really think fine mesh netting is the only answer.
Went doen the Allotment yesterday and one pf my cabbages were covered in fat catapillars, when do they die out
marion
A good hard frost will kill them off. I haven't suffered too much this year at all from pests(at least not those of the insect type), but then, it has been pretty cold and windy up here all summer and that kept insect and butterfly numbers down.
Urrggghhh...not with your hands surely, green gooey liquid! I'd stomp on it with my foot...sorry but they give me the creeps . I thought it was too cold for caterpillars at this time of the year.
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