brasicas

[wcah]

Hi all this is my first post of may probabley. I would like to have a go at growing brasicas next year and just need to know how to prep the soil now, as a tryed a few years ago and they did nothing so presume the soil is not right somehow.
Thanks

[Two_Sheds]

Not necessarily the soil's fault. Brassicas mostly like slightly alkaline soil, and firm to the point of concrete

What do you want to grow?

[wcah]

lots of broccoli , and some savoy cabage and a bit of cauliflower

the last time i tryed to grow there roots got eaten by somthing

[burnie]

Soounds like you might have club root,maybe grow in containers and use the ground for other crops.

[Two_Sheds]

there roots got eaten by somthing

that would be cabbage root fly... you need to put collars around the stems when you plant out your seedlings

[Croila]

that would be cabbage root fly... you need to put collars around the stems when you plant out your seedlings

My mother-in-law reckons if you rot down rhubarb leaves and then spray the solution on brassicas it totally repels the cabbage root flies.

I've got some rhubarb leaves rotting in a bucket but I suspect the stink may put me off!

[Alison]

that would be cabbage root fly... you need to put collars around the stems when you plant out your seedlings

I enviromesh all my brassica beds so no problems with flies / birds etc - slugs though will still find a way through