The BEST Way to Defeat Cabbage Butterfly!
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- Опубліковано 25 вер 2024
- White cabbage butterflies and the resulting caterpillars can be a real pest if you are growing, cabbage, broccoli, etc - especially in summer. This is the best way to protect you plants!
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Frankly, this is the most ingenious & simplest way to do a net. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for information especially on the conduit. Also we have to make sure the netting is the type that doesn’t catch bats.
Fantastic vid thanks for your knowledge
Thanks for sharing your white butterfly, defense tools!
As im a beginner gardener, I was overjoyed to see that finally- in my 2nd year of gardening, I had crops growing!!! What a feeling to see green, lush crops growing large n tall.
Almost as soon as I was proud, these little holes started appearing on my cabbage leaves.
I'd work countless hours after dark, searching for those grubs. And, the satisfaction of removing a handful and feeding them to my chickens was outstanding! But, night after night, no matter what I did or how many I removed- there were dozens more holes and lightening of the leaves and stalk =•《
I mean, I sunk to chasing them around the greenhouse and catching the butterfly by hand (feeding it to my chicks). I probably looked like a mad woman running around clapping my hands high n low, mashing and cussing! Nothing seemed to have any affect. What to do? Thank goodness for u- tube! Unfortunately, I am pretty much a container gardener so using your method would mean I'd have to cut the screen into several pieces in order to use them on each container or plant. Which is just fine. However, last year we put up a very, very large sun screen cloth in our greenhouse. Kind of a netting/screen cloth. Shortly after we had it up, something started cutting holes in the cloth. Not sure if its from moths, mice, birds? No idea. So, thats my question for you- do u find anything can chew holes in the screen/netting you use? We didn't even make it 1, single year without it tearing, ripping and becoming shredded b4 it could really do its job. Im afraid the same thing will take over with these, what do u think? And do u hv any tested & tried methods for keeping that from shredding?
Thanks for sharing, listening and giving back to this you tube community of gardeners!!
In the past I've used curtain mesh , Bought it from a charity shop , cheap and strong ,Just an idea,🦋
Once again a fantastic video thanks for sharing! We will need to cover our plants the summer gets very hot. This will help solve some of the insect issues as well as Critter issues thank you.
Lovely background music :)
Thanks 😊
Great video , lovely beds and an excellent teacher.
Terrific idea and advice, thanks John
Great solution. Up here in Qld is it better to use the green shade cloth? Thanks for sharing.
Shade cloth could be better in Qld. Especially this time of the year!
@@homesteading Thank you
That was so helpful, Thank You. Great tutorial.
Wasps have come to my rescue multiple times. As soon as the population begins to get large I notice wasps patrolling my plants for me. They quickly wipe them out.
Excellent advice thank you
I am using birds nests ($15 from Ship Loads) on my patch and so far all is well. next time I will get an insect net. For some reason, the white butterfly does not attack the red Russian kale which is not protected yet. Aphids are a problem.
To correct the memory shape on the conduct a hot air for a hair drier works well.
Yes, the red Russian kale seems to have more resistance to the butterfly. Good tip on the hair dryer.
Question - What is the difference between the net you are using and the bird netting? Also we are in Louth Bay SA. It's still very warm/hot. When is it a good time to get the seedlings in for winter crops?
The crop net is much finer weave than bird net. Bird net is usually 5 -10mm openings, whereas crop net is around 1mm only! Probably best to wait another month if it's still hot were you are, but for the best advice ask a local! Otherwise you could use shad cloth which will help cool them as well.
i was about to ask that so thanks for asking it and thanks to @Homesteading DownUnder for the quick reply and the great videos
great video shared on my straw bale garden facebook page
Thank you!
Looks very effective. QUESTION: Does rain water your plants thru the net, or do you use irrigation methods? Thank you. : )
Rain will penetrate these nets perfectly well. Also you don't need to remove them when hand watering either - the spray goes through with no problems. The only time you really need to remove it is at a harvest...or maybe to weed.
@@homesteading Very efficient, indeed! : )
I rather enjoy the cabbage white butterfly and other butterfly species. I know it's a pest for a lot of gardener's growing brassica's but it's one of the very few butterfly species in my area that will actually hangout in a butterfly garden all day provided with an ample supply of nectar and host plants. That is one reason I just use the barrier system. I can leave out some plants for butterfly and hummingbird moths in my garden to lay eggs on and protect my crops. Best of both worlds.
Oh your poor neighbors.. it costs a lot of money to raise a garden.
@@denisemiller8474 you can’t avoid them here. Either cage or spray.
We have just bought in southern Tasmanian. We have a small dam but our land is very dry. I notice that your area appears to be green. How do water with how do you source your garden water? Thanks
Our place is also generally dry in summer and not so green! This season there was considerably later rainfall - and now we have had more. So it is looking better than most summers! We have a spring which we use to water the garden.
I live in Victoria. Cheapest place to get conduit pipe = Bunnings ?
Depending on the size the conduit may bend (make a cross) or if too small use heavy wire. Then wrap the net over it.
any ideas for several large round black pots I have 6 in total... not long beds.... to cover to keep the damn things out.
l know its late but a week ago l planted out half dozen cabbages. l've just been out to see how there getting on and alot if not all have been partly eaten l cant find any dropping from rats (which l know are in the area) the lutuce which are right next to them are fine. l've searched for bugs/insects?? nothing. its my 1st time growing these and l dont know what to do. my vegies are incaged in wire as we have alot of ringtail and brushtail possums here. l live in melbourne south-east suburbs. Can you give me any ideas as what to do please? TFS
Maybe caterpillars of the type that hide in the soil around the plant during the day. Water area around the plant well and loosen the soil at the same time...if there, they will often float on the water. Otherwise go out and check at night!
@@homesteading l'll try that tonight thankyou so much
Cheers mate!
I'm amazed you still get cabbage butterfly when you seem to be in the middle of the forest. Where do they come from??
They apparently can find their way through the forest! It really is only about 500m to open farmland on closest side so not enough insulation I guess :-(. Keeps many other pests at minimum though!
Fantastic John as I have just planted out some cauliflower plant & yes also bought the same netting- hope mine works up here in Brisbane. Where was your little helper ?????? are you giving your ears a rest hahaha- Cheers Denise
Bedtime! May be a good idea to use shade cloth with your cauliflowers in Brisbane.
My kale never makes it past sprouting. :(
The wet season in Melbourne is bringing slugs & snails to my veggie seedlings. What do you do to deter these pests?
We have the same problem here this season! Our main defense is to use a pet an iron based, pet friendly bait such as Multigard. Of course beer traps too.
Have done exactly this but sometimes the cover needs to come off so it doesn't get too hot. It's seems the bugs move in then.
Do you Never take off the cover?
Only need to take it off when harvesting in our climate. If you are in a hot location use shade cloth.
hello ,what do you use for your broccoli beds what soil and composition?
Just a 50mm layer of greenwaste compost on top of my natural (clay) soil.
Hello Sir I have a question, I have a thinner mesh net so very small holes but I get these eggs being layed ON THE NET and I have found two cattapillers INSIDE my net on my lettuce leafs how do I stop the eggs being layed on the nets and from them getting passed my net I assume they lay eggs and then the eggs hatch in the netting but the catapillas hatch on the INSIDE of my net?
Maybe - not certain, but just wondering - the finer mesh makes for a better egg laying surface? A more open mesh may not be so inviting for them to lay eggs on? Something to try and compare...
@@homesteading That does sound right but then the open mesh would allow for catapillers to climb up into the wholes either way hmmmm
I swear those fake butterflies act as an attractant, rather than keeping them away. We had more trouble with cabbage moth caterpillars this year when we tried them than we have anytime before.
Sorry I might have missed. Can you water through the mesh?
Yes. Water goes through without any problem.
What width (mm) is your conduit? Bunnings? Thanks.
I generally use 20mm conduit for these short hoops. You could use the 25mm if you where making hoops of more than 3m.
Try an electrical wholesale like TLE/MM electrical. You can buy in bundles of 10 and they are usually cheaper than the big B.
@@homesteading have you cut them ? they appear to have 2 m in lenghts, have you bought 2 meter conduits? heavy duty, medium duty??
@@pedroa5722 Just standard conduit 20mm, comes in 4m lengths - yes I cut in half.
Will bees penetrate the net?
No, bees won't go through this type of net.
How did it work out for you?
Works perfectly!
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Lost all my broccoli to these stupid butterflies. .... I can't justify $30 for the netting... when I'm not going to get $30 worth of broccoli out of my crop.
Make a video on what the hell we can do with the 20kg of tomatoes we all might have haha
Ah! Think longer term - you will get the $30 worth of crop over the life of the net! Besides - planting and then losing your crop ends up costing more! Too many tomatoes? Make sauce or relish - watch ua-cam.com/video/4JcUr32-hVA/v-deo.html.
@@homesteading Great reply!
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Tried netting this year on my cabbages and got no damage ,i always get damage from the grubs feasting on my tender plants...NETTING IS THE ONLY GUARANTEED PEST PROTECTION THERE IS ,,hands down