flutterby menace

[Mo]

It's cabbage white time again, if I don't get out there egg squishing, and keep it up there'll be no crop, just holes and frass. grrrr

[Emma]

Mo, I leave three sacrificial cabbages where they are easily accessable, and any others are more closely guarded.

I quite enjoy seeing them about, there seem to be so few of any butterflies at the moment. :cry:

[Meanqueen]

I'm doing the same, Mo. I have made a flutterby catcher out of a wire coathanger, see thru plastic bag, and a garden cane. My plants were covered in net curtains, but they are so big now I've had to take them off. So as well as slug and snail picking, I am now inspecting underside of big leaves for the tiny yellow eggs, and squishing them.

Ilona

[spudley]

stop showing off! mine never get big enough to worry about flutterbies, as the rabbits get to them first.! I think comanion planting works though, but i cant remember what to plant with cabbages. There is a whole web site on it, just google companion planting