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Pests and Diseases – Whitefly

Posted on 29. Jul, 2007 by Tracey.

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What are they? Very tiny white flies (look like tiny moths) that flly about and live on your crops. They lay their eggs on the underside of the leaf and bury into the leaf making it mishapen and distorted. Vegetables destroyed: Only leaves – Cabbages, Chicory, Carrots, Pak Choi, winter lettuce. Month Occurred: October. Solution: [...]

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Pests & Diseases – Cabbage White Caterpillars

Posted on 29. Jul, 2007 by Tracey.

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What are they? Tiny green and green and black caterpillars on the underside of cabbage leaves, they leave holes in your crops leaves. The caterpillars are from the small cabbage white butterfly. Look out for the yellow eggs/larvae and remove. Vegetables destroyed: Leaves – Cabbages, Broccoli, brussels sprouts, turnips, Kale. Month Occurred: June, July, August [...]

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Pests & Diseases – Parsnip Leaf Spot

Posted on 29. Jul, 2007 by Tracey.

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What is it? – A fungus that forms brown spots on leaves. The disease occurs in warm wet weather. When the leaf stays wet it is prone to infection. Month Occurred: July/August Does it damage the plants? No, the leaves may drop off but the parsnip root is not affected. Spacing wider apart may improve [...]

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Weeds – Stinging Nettles

Posted on 29. Jul, 2007 by Tracey.

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What are they? A perennial weed which can grow to 1.2m in height. It has tiny stiff hairs on the leaves which has a cocktail of formic acid and histamine which causes a painful rash if touched. The natural cure is the dock leaf. The grow in areas rich in organic matter and show that [...]

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Weeds – Chickweed

Posted on 29. Jul, 2007 by Tracey.

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Chickweed or Stellaria media- the most common garden weed worldwide. What is it? An annual weed which forms a dense matting smoothering other plants. It also hosts other pests such as whitefly and red spider mite. It matures and produces seed in 5-6 weeks and has lots of germination periods in one year. It has [...]

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Weeds – Creeping Wood Sorell

Posted on 29. Jul, 2007 by Tracey.

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Creeping Wood Sorell or Oxalis corniculata atropurpurea What is it? This perennial creeping plant has clover shaped trifold leaves. It is regarded as a weed of gardens, agricultural fields and lawns. It is an invasive and self-seeding weed. Month Occurred: May to October Solution: It is easy to remove by hand and remove the runners [...]

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Weeds – Couch Grass

Posted on 29. Jul, 2007 by Tracey.

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What is it? A grass perennial with creeping underground stems. It is very invasive and will regrow from any small part of the rhizome. Month Occurred: May to October. Solution: Cover area in black plastic which will suppress the grass. Repeatedly removing by hand will eventually remove most of the grass, when removing dig out [...]

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Week 15 – 21.07.07 Harvest & Pests Report

Posted on 21. Jul, 2007 by Tracey.

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This week I will mostly be Harvesting:- Spring greens, Carrots, Spring onions, New potatoes, Leaf Beat, Peas.

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Slug Fest!

Posted on 03. Jun, 2007 by Tracey.

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My lettuces have been munched and most have been completed destroyed by something. At first I couldn’t work out what the pest was but had a funny suspicion that even though I couldn’t see any slugs or slime trail, it must be them – Slugs. So I ordered some Nemotodes – an organic natural way [...]

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Attack of the Killer Aphids!

Posted on 13. May, 2007 by Tracey.

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The little blighters, those peskey aphids, blackfly and greenfly have been at my Tomato’s! Mission Destroy Aphid (MDA) has been activated and will operate a cleanup operation to de-aphid all the tomato plants within a radius of my mini greenhouse. Mission MDA has been deployed and so far has been successful to eradicate the enemy! [...]

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