Hubby wandered up to the plot this morning to deliver some chicken poo to the compost bins and whilst there had a look around at my prize brussel sprouts. As you may remember we have, as have all of the allotment holders on this site, been inundated with whitefly. I tried my Marigold weapons, which had limited success, but they did look pretty, we have sprayed up to the maximum we can of what is currently licensed for use by people such as myself. When you walk past the brussels and give them a little shake a huge cloud of white fly appears before they quickly settle back onto the plants.
But however, if you give the plants a little shake on a very windy day…… a huge cloud of white fly appears and ‘whoosh’ they are gone, taken with the wind. I laughed myself silly when hubby told me of his little game, he had carefully gone around each and every plant, he had a lovely time. I so wish I could have captured this on film, it would have been wonderful on utube.
Just as an aside, brussel sprouts don’t like to be disturbed, they prefer very firm ground, so this is something that we will have to do quite infrequently. There is always a downside to a new plan isn’t there?
blossom and sunshine 