What a soul destroying season

[Potstubsdustbins]

Marb, I hate to tell you this but I used a similar netting to yours this year and many is the time I have found cabbage whites inside the netting.

Don't ask me how they do it but it's for sure they do. Its proper enviromesh for me next year.

Potty

[Marb67]

Marb, I hate to tell you this but I used a similar netting to yours this year and many is the time I have found cabbage whites inside the netting.

Don't ask me how they do it but it's for sure they do. Its proper enviromesh for me next year.

Potty

I know, I have found them inside.

[SarzWix]

Sounds like it might be scale insect Marb. Description here: Scale insects / Royal Horticultural Society But whatever it is, you can get a bowl of warm water with a couple of drops of Ecover in it, and a pair of gloves, and have a go at washing them off

[Two_Sheds]

The white scallops on the leaves are def not whitefly. I know whitefly

Marb, did you even click on the link I attached to my post? They def do come in white scallop shape

[Marb67]

Marb, did you even click on the link I attached to my post? They def do come in white scallop shape

Yes I did look at the link and that photo is nothing like my white attachments. I even looked on Google myself and still couldn't find anything like it under "white blister". Ditto for scale insect as I have had that before on another plant. Even some house plant ivy have had scale.

What I am wondering though is if it is harvestman eggs as they are around this time of year. Long legged spidery things that do a great job of eating small slugs and other pests. I always get them on my runner beans.

I do not use manure.

[Two_Sheds]

OK, so could you put a photo up so we can see your scallops? It'll save a lot of time

[Two_Sheds]

I am wondering though is if it is harvestman eggs

Harvestmen lay in autumn, in damp soil.

My Garden Club children are fascinated with them: spiderlike, but not spiders

[SarzWix]

Scale insects don't all look the same. Different types on different plants... A photo would probably help

[bramble]

This has probably been my best year in a long time. My two gooseberry bushes died. Apart from that i have had a great harvest. Peas, strawberries, spring onions, herbs, garlic and currents all did great.
In the greenhouse the tomatoes, cucumbers and the peppers are coming thick and fast. in fact the tomatoes are ripening so quickly i am now putting them in the freezer until such time I can make soup or sauce. We never know how one season will vary from the next. I suspect that is what keeps us trying again and again.