Carol Jensen wrote:
Not sure about the reason, but they are actually very sporadic in my
garden.I have only seen them a couple of times I think and then not on
the main onion crop.
You would certainly know however if you got an infestation, as though
individually pretty small they occur in enormous numbers are extremely
devastating, even killing the plants outright.
Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan,
Wainuiomata, North Island, NZ. Pictures of our garden at:-
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/cherie1/Garden/TonyandMoira/index.htm
I have never had any critters that killed plants.
The first year I had a real garden in Denmark we got clubfoot on our cabbage, but never again. Don't know why, as I wheelbarrowed an ancient cow dung heap onto the garden in that spring (1963) and never gave the garden anything again the six years we lived there. Perhaps it was a tad too much manure, no matter how old?
But critters -well, I admit there are carrot flies and pea weevils. There are also the pretty cabbage butterflies, but they do absolutely no damage in this garden - they used to in the garden I had in 1963.
Carol
