White fleece

redruby

Morning all,

I have read a few posts on here, advising people to get white fleece to stop cabbage white laying their eggs on veg, might be a stupid question (novice here ), but what exactly is it, and where do I get it ?

Thanks

Larumbelle

You can get all manner of netting and fleece to protect crops from bugs on t'internet and at garden centres... I'm always on the verge of buying some (that environmesh looks really good) but I am so tight fisted I always just use old net curtains draped over canes but they seem to do the job as well.

Jack's_mummy

Cheap stuff from the pound shop

~Chameleon~

I've given up on protecting my brassicas this year and taken the enviro-netting off to let the "good guys" in to hopefully kill off the "bad guys" :rolleyes:

Despite the netting I'm infested with white fly - AGAIN - and the flutterbys were somehow getting inside the netting and becoming trapped. I now do a daily inpection and remove any eggs and caterpillars I find.

Would like to know whether there's an effective way of dealing with whitefly without resorting to chemicals though. Will the washing-up liquid trick work on them?

Jack's_mummy

It worked on the whitefly on my chilli plant