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I am gonna be trying my hand at winter cabbage this year and I know I need to protect from white cabbage butterfly! I have netting I used to keep birds off my strawberries, is the mesh too big, will I need something smaller for the butterflies?
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I use scaffold netting. It has to be very small stuff.
You can use enviromesh (pricey) or net curtains. Ive heard IKi@ do cheap one...Last edited by Scarlet; 20-05-2016, 08:43 PM. -
..... or as I do, the pond/crop protection netting from the 99p store. I stick 4 together using a hot melt glue gun so the joins are waterproof and so far mine is in its 3rd year and only cost a total of £3.96 plus the wooden stakes from B&Q with cut off pop bottles to protect the net and to hold the netting up.
It stops the pigeons decimating your crops plus it also stops the flutterbys from getting at 'em and laying their eggs.The day that Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck ...
... is the day they make vacuum cleaners
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Best to net all Brassicas but I've not heard of Winter Cabbage.............do you mean Spring Cabbage which is overwintered?sigpic“Gorillas are very intelligent, but they don't have to be as delicate as chimps -- they can just smash open the termite nest,”
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Winter Cabbage Seeds | Marshalls Seeds
http://www.thompson-morgan.com/veget...ng-savoy/327TM
I always grow January king as my "Spring" cabbage but the seed companies call it Winter Savoy.Last edited by Scarlet; 21-05-2016, 06:58 AM.Comment
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The seeds I've bought are cabbage 'tundra'. The packet just describes it as a winter variety ��Originally posted by Bigmallly View PostComment
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Well,you learn something new everyday.................
sigpic“Gorillas are very intelligent, but they don't have to be as delicate as chimps -- they can just smash open the termite nest,”
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