pests

[Devlin]

This will be my first serious year for growing last year I had a lot of veg eaten by the usuall cuprits so what I want to know is what to use and when to use it the array of available stuff is bewildering I mainly want to stop attacks on brassicas legums and carrot slugs and snails I can deak with maually likewise cabbage white larvae but the burrowing and sub soil egg laying villians are a different story all help will be welcome
thanks Devlin

[Two_Sheds]

Have a browse through the Pests & Diseases forum, you'll find lots of answers.

In a nutshell:
- Butterfly netting for brassicas
- Fleece/voile for carrots
- What attacks your legumes? Mice? If so, sow into pots and transplant

[ann-the-nan]

Pests

Hi Devlin. I had to deal with all these when I first starting growing my own, But I am learning. The advise you have been given is good. What I can't cope with is the cat from no. 3.

[ann-the-nan]

pests

Forgot to say....no, I don't want a dog.

[zazen999]

Cats: stick short spiky sticks where they try and go; like battlements. Or, use chicken wire made into cloche type covers until the crops get big enough to withstand the cats.

[pdblake]

Forgot to say....no, I don't want a dog.

Our dog doesn't seem to deter the things anyway

[oldie]

I have heavy clay soil and was advised not to use nematodes, so I tried Bio-friend slug banish from Victoriana Nurseries. It does seem to have done a good job.

[northepaul]

Cats: stick short spiky sticks where they try and go; like battlements. Or, use chicken wire made into cloche type covers until the crops get big enough to withstand the cats.

Thank you!! I have terrible trouble with cats, one neighbour has 3 and the other 6!! They use our garden as their toilet

[moola]

we did'nt have much luck either - we lost LOADS! so we've gone down the enviromesh route on wooden frames. Fingers crossed it'll work - we've spent alot of time and a fair bit of ££'s to knock them together