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Growing => Vegetables => Topic started by: lazybee on July 29, 2010, 05:25:09 am

Title: Flea beetle
Post by: lazybee on July 29, 2010, 05:25:09 am

Does anyone know how to get rid of flea beetles? they are eating all the leaves on my Swedes, radishes, aubergines, cabbages, sprouts, cauliflowers. They are doing my head in ??? ???

Title: Re: Flea beetle
Post by: Fleecewife on July 29, 2010, 11:25:01 am

Hi Lazybee.  The organic way uses grease on a board.  You wipe it over your seedlings and when the fleabeetles jump up they stick to the board.  It can be used on a mechanised scale but equally you could adapt it to a garden scale. Usually when the plants get bigger it's not a problem.