Author Topic: Flea beetle  (Read 4059 times)

lazybee

  • Joined Mar 2010
Flea beetle
« 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 ??? ???

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: Flea beetle
« Reply #1 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.
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