http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/680/weeds-wasps/ Vegetable Fruit & Herb Growing on my Allotment Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:05:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/680/weeds-wasps/#comment-5669 Mike Miller Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:17:40 +0000 http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/?p=680#comment-5669 Sounds like you've had similar experiences to me. my potatoes were devastated by blight ( the ones the slugs didn't get to first!) my tomatoes went the same way. Almost everyone on our site lost their sprouts to a late attack of ravenous caterpillers (though I have managed to save six of the plants by resorting to spraying). The main things to have done well have been cucumbers, cabbages (which the caterpillers seem to have ignored for some reason) and runner beans. All of these have been collected in abundance. Now, to plan for next year..... Sounds like you’ve had similar experiences to me. my potatoes were devastated by blight ( the ones the slugs didn’t get to first!) my tomatoes went the same way. Almost everyone on our site lost their sprouts to a late attack of ravenous caterpillers (though I have managed to save six of the plants by resorting to spraying). The main things to have done well have been cucumbers, cabbages (which the caterpillers seem to have ignored for some reason) and runner beans. All of these have been collected in abundance. Now, to plan for next year…..

]]> http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/680/weeds-wasps/#comment-5416 Maggie Hale Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:10:49 +0000 http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/?p=680#comment-5416 We've just taken up 50 sad looking leeks that had all been attacked by the Leek moth caterpillar. They had burrowed their way down into the leeks. It looks like the whole site has it but we are the only ones who have pulled and destroyed the plants. We haven't ever seen it before but apparently it is working it's way North. (we are in Cheltenham) Any suggestions on how we can treat it/prevent it for next year. I'm scared it will attack our onions next year too. Good to see that our brassicas aren't quite as bad as your neighbours sprout plant. Not far off though! We’ve just taken up 50 sad looking leeks that had all been attacked by the Leek moth caterpillar. They had burrowed their way down into the leeks. It looks like the whole site has it but we are the only ones who have pulled and destroyed the plants. We haven’t ever seen it before but apparently it is working it’s way North. (we are in Cheltenham) Any suggestions on how we can treat it/prevent it for next year. I’m scared it will attack our onions next year too. Good to see that our brassicas aren’t quite as bad as your neighbours sprout plant. Not far off though!

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