turnip beasties

[voddybabe]

My turnips ( think the were snowball), all the leaves went yellow. Being a nosy so and so i decided to pull one up. Once i pulled it up it was like something out of a horror movie. The soil was riddled with little white maggots........ ewwww.
Luckly they are being grown in pots, so nothing else will be affected.
Any ideas what these might be?

[Two_Sheds]

Cabbage root fly. Horrible

[Snadger]

Enviromesh or fine mesh of some type is probably your only solution to the problem. As far as I know ALL soil insecticides for amatuer use are now banned...........probably with good reason!

[voddybabe]

cheers guys, just googled the little monsters. I have pulled up all the turnips and am going to start again.
Thanks for your help x

[falkon]

use collars around the plant and net on the top to prevent this... Last year my turnips were affected too but the damage was not that bad. I had to chuck only some of them... but I wasnt happy by the activity of maggots...