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    maggots

    i've been growing something in a morrisons bucket.. not sure what it was, could have been cabbage, turnip or sprouts.. anyway, it'd been looking a bit ill, had windrock and the caterpillars had been at the leaves so i decided to put it out of it's misery today.. when i pulled it out the roots were covered in horrible little grub type maggots .. two questions, what the hell are they and how did they get into the bucket??
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    If it was brassicas in the bucket then it probably cabbage root fly offspring

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    • #3
      Originally posted by TEB View Post
      If it was brassicas in the bucket then it probably cabbage root fly offspring
      does that mean i might have some in my raised beds too? i've found tons of little yellow eggs on the ones in the raised bed.. i keep squashing them but will that stop them?

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      • #4
        Little yellow eggs are from the cabbage moth butterfly, evil little white flappers! They turn into caterpillers and munch. I just squash them off every day
        WPC F Hobbit, Shire police

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        • #5
          Originally posted by ckfe View Post
          does that mean i might have some in my raised beds too?
          Most likely, yes. Cabbage root fly treatment
          All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Two_Sheds View Post
            Most likely, yes. Cabbage root fly treatment


            thing is, i won't actually know i've got them if i don't dig them up will i?

            might make them some of those little collar things though

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            • #7
              Originally posted by ckfe View Post
              thing is, i won't actually know i've got them if i don't dig them up will i?
              The main symptoms of the Cabbage Root Fly is stunted growth; discoloured leaves which wilt; finally collapsed plants
              All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Two_Sheds View Post
                The main symptoms of the Cabbage Root Fly is stunted growth; discoloured leaves which wilt; finally collapsed plants
                i'm not quite sure which are my cabbages.. but i've got some that have got yellow leaves and also purple edged ones??

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                • #9
                  You never know with the cabbage root fly when or where it is going to strike next. I don't usually bother with collars and usually don't suffer to much. I loose the odd plant. I always make sure the plants are strong and healthy and of a reasonable size before I put them out on the lottie. I also understand that it is best to let the weeds grow around cabbages as it can confuse the fly. The only brassica I have affected is cabbages but supposedly it will attack any of them.

                  Ian

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by ckfe View Post
                    thing is, i won't actually know i've got them if i don't dig them up will i?

                    might make them some of those little collar things though
                    I would make the collars but dont plant where you have pulled brassicas that were infected as the offspring are more than likely in the soil.

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