Flea Beetle

Plashing

What can I use to stop flea beetle attacking my cabbages,pak choi I have done several sowing's both outside and in the greenhouse without any success any would be appreciated.
 Regards Peter

Singing Gardener

The only solution I've found is to plant them in containers and cover with micro fleece - and even then they still sometimes get in!

Plashing

I have tried that to deter them and caterpillars without a lot of success I even had little caterpillars attacking them in the greenhouse they are so tiny you don't see them till its to late and the damage done,I don't know about you but I have never seen so many cabbage white butterflies that we have had this year,but I haven't seen many other sort except holly blues.

Singing Gardener

Yes, caterpillars were also a problem for me this year and managed to evade my defences and get inside the netting tunnels which were meant to be protecting my cabbages. I picked off the large white caterpillars (the stripey, smelly ones) but didn't realised that the small white caterpillars burrow inside the cabbage. When I came back after a week away one lot of cabbages had been completely decimated.