I'll tell you I'm bloody sure every cabbage moth for a hundred miles around must have laid it eggs on my Savoy cabbage.
Oh and the chilli and garlic recipe. Pretty simple really.
I just blended two really hot chillies, a teaspoon of garlic in a cup of water. Let it sit over night, strain and add a few drops of dish washing liquid. Make it up to about 250mls of liquid, bung it in a spray bottle and away you go.
You'll need spray all the plant and both sides of the leaves and to keep applying it after rain or watering but for me, so far so good.
I might get to enjoy my savoy cabbage yet and even more so knowing all the effort I've put into it thus far.
Cheers and how's your Easter going so far?
Stewart.
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Bugger!
I picked some of my capsicums a few days ago and each one I cut open had a big green grub inside...yuk!
Quiet Easter at home this year, getting caught up on some jobs around here.
Tania
I always figure I must be doing something right if it's good enough for the grubs to eat.
I've pretty much given up on brassicas apart from PSB. Those slugs just drive me mad!
They sure can. But I revel in defeating them.
oh yes...I swear by garlic spray! and it's a great way to use up small/or unwanted bulbs from the garden that don't make it to the kitchen. :-)
Hi Julze, so far so good, I thought I'd lost this one but it's thriving at the moment.
Hi, I'm just starting out with veggies, and my brocoli leaves are getting hammered by slugs. Do you think this garlic chilli thing would work on slugs too?
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