Red Spider Mite
Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 10:22 am
This year is the first time in three years, that my cucumbers have been Red Spider Mite free! Woo hoo!
Why? Because I grew my own from seed again.
When we first got our allotment, I always grew from seed but one year decided to buy plants from a nursery, as I only ever need two plants. That year was the first time I had a problem with RSM and as I didn't recognise what the problem was until the damn things were abseiling from plant to plant, it was too late. I scrubbed out the greenhouse, getting into all the nooks and crannies, burnt the canes I'd used, thinking I'd sorted them.
I hadn't....there they were again next year and I used a spray which claims to kill RSM...it didn't. Again I had bought plants.
As I said in another post, we didn't have problems with Vine weevil grubs until we bought in new plants so I decided the same might apply to RSM on the cucumber plants and grew my own this year.
Coincidence? I don't know. Problem at the nursery? I can't be certain, as the plants were from a different one from the previous year. Bad luck?? maybe!
Why? Because I grew my own from seed again.
When we first got our allotment, I always grew from seed but one year decided to buy plants from a nursery, as I only ever need two plants. That year was the first time I had a problem with RSM and as I didn't recognise what the problem was until the damn things were abseiling from plant to plant, it was too late. I scrubbed out the greenhouse, getting into all the nooks and crannies, burnt the canes I'd used, thinking I'd sorted them.
I hadn't....there they were again next year and I used a spray which claims to kill RSM...it didn't. Again I had bought plants.
As I said in another post, we didn't have problems with Vine weevil grubs until we bought in new plants so I decided the same might apply to RSM on the cucumber plants and grew my own this year.
Coincidence? I don't know. Problem at the nursery? I can't be certain, as the plants were from a different one from the previous year. Bad luck?? maybe!