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White fly is a perennial problem on my calvelo Nero kale. How do commercial organic growers manage to avoid it? You don’t see clouds of whitefly on the kale in the veg boxes. Guy Watson commented on this week’s Countryfile: growing in small fields surrounded by hedgerows attracted predators to deal with pest problems. I interplant veg with herbs,flowers and fruit on my allotment aiming for year round biodiversity but so far haven’t found a predator that actually enjoys eating them. Could it be that some varieties of kale are less prone to whitefly than Nero?
I mulch around my thornless blackberry with cow manure in November every year. It is very vigorous and smothered in berries. I cut down the fruited growth to ground level at the end of the harvest and replace with current year’s growth on the supports for fruiting next year. Has anyone tried the new variety Reuben? It’s growth is said to be similar to a raspberry. I planted one last winter but growth has been weak.
Thanks Charles. I was a bit confused because I understood that “planting” actually meant “transplanting”.
I have followed the moon calendar this year, sowing on favourable days, but it has not always been possible to plant out the resulting seedlings in line with the moon calendar when they have matured and are ready for transplanting before then. So I am not sure whether sowing on the right day or aiming to plant on the right day is more beneficial.
I will definitely be giving over wintering onions a miss from now on.
All the onions on our allotment site in Doncaster have been affected by downy mildew this year. It started with the over wintered onions which I pulled up,saving what I could by slicing up and freezing the bulbs. I am now faced with the problem of how to deal with the three hundred main crop (3 different varieties) which have gone the same way and not likely to store in the usual way.