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  • Pea and Bean Weevil

    Hello there!

    Since taking on my new allotment in the last few months, we have been slowly clearing ground and we very proudly planted broad beans and garlic the other week. After looking at them today, there are nibble marks around the edges of lots of the leaves and black sooty marks in the middle of the leaves and the flowers aren't looking too happy either!

    I googled the symptoms and the RHS website said I have a case of pea and bean weevil but that the adults who eat the leaves normally appear in June and July. I've never had this problem before, is anyone else getting this? And surely covering the plants with fleece isn't going to make much of a difference if the adults are already there?

    Sorry for the long post, I'm quite dismayed that I'm getting pest problems in march!!

    Jen


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  • #2
    I've been reading about companion planting recently, and my books seem to agree that beans benefit from being planted amongst potatoes. Apparently potatoes can help keep 'bean beetles' at bay, and beans can help deter colorado beetles (but let's hope they don't need to!). Anyway, just thought it might be worth mentioning... Sadly I've planted most of my potatoes too closely to interplant with beans, but I've got a few leftovers I might try spacing out and planting a few broadies between them. Interesting experiment if nothing else . They also like carrots and cauliflower apparently, although it doesn't say what the benefits are, just that they like each other.
    sigpicGardening in France rocks!

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    • #3
      Originally posted by PlotOfMine View Post
      the adults who eat the leaves normally appear in June and July.
      ... meanwhile, the baby maggots are eating the roots all year round! The pea weevil can also live on alfalfa. My alfalfa has been in leaf all "winter", and so are the weevils eating it.
      Allotments have endemic pests like these, with so much food for them being grown. Problems would be lesser in private gardens, but on allotments you're going to get everything.

      Pea and bean weevils / Royal Horticultural Society

      http://aeronvale-allotments.org.uk/d..._Weevil_01.pdf
      All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by kathyd View Post
        Apparently potatoes can help keep 'bean beetles' at bay
        sadly, it doesn't work.
        I grow spuds & beans intermingled, and still suffer massive attack from pea weevils
        All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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        • #5
          Thanks very much for the advice, I'm resigned to putting up with it - I may sow a few more just in case anything dire happens, but hopefully they will just plod on through!


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          • #6
            The beans that is, I definitely don't want the weevils to be doing any plodding!


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            • #7
              I planted peas in my gh border , yup nibbled leaves ..If you lay some sticky paper underneath and give the plant a shake you might be lucky enough to catch some ..
              S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
              a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

              You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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              • #8
                I've just spotted a bean weevil walking across the table

                Yup- the table is covered with seeds ready for the seed swap we're doing...it must have snuck out of an opened packet of seeds????

                ...going to have to go through all the beans and peas to check they are all pest free now!
                "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

                Location....Normandy France

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                • #9
                  That'll keep you quiet for a while ...
                  S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
                  a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

                  You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Nicos View Post
                    I've just spotted a bean weevil walking across the table
                    Weevil, or bruchid beetle?

                    I had a packet of T&M Violetta broadies, which were infested with bruchids ~ yes, they were walking about all over the kitchen *shudder*

                    http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...tle_43657.html
                    Last edited by Two_Sheds; 21-03-2014, 08:06 AM.
                    All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                    • #11
                      Ah yes!....that was the little blighter!....yuk!
                      "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

                      Location....Normandy France

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                      • #12
                        Our peas and beans get nibbled every year, but if you wait until big enough before planting out, they generally overcome it and do just fine. I grow peas in guttering, so they're already on their way before I subject them to the big wide world.

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