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Mark, how do you avoid pea moth grubs?

(04-07-2020, 12:25 PM)JJB Wrote: [ -> ]Mark, how do you avoid pea moth grubs?

I sow just the once, fairly early in April, this year 2 x 20' rows and a bit on one side. I planted them out at end of April with first picking on 28th June. Last year I picked peas 10 times, roughly every other day. The last few pickings tend to have a few grubs in but not too many. Last year I left 4' of row to ripen for seeds and this year am doing the same again. When I pick the dried peas, there is usually a lot more grub damage but as long as they leave me about 700 good seeds I don't mind too much.

I used to sow in succession, a few each week but found the later crops were not worth picking sometimes. I find it a lot easier now to just pick, pod into a plastic bag and then straight into the freezer. I used to spend time and energy blanching a lot of different veg but now don't bother and can't taste any difference

Lettuce, kale, raspberries, courgette, cucumber

2 lettuces (freckles & red batavia) black currants, jostaberries, various herbs, cucumber.

I love freckles lettuce but haven't grown it in years!

Picked 1.4kg of toms
3 Nigel's chillies
4 mini munch cues

I picked a load of my white onions, the amount of rain these last few days was causing the outer skins to crack and split so I lifted any where the stalks were down and starting to colour yellow. Also some of the ones the crows attacked.

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Yesterday-Garlic, B beans, CFB, DFB, cucumbers, courgettes, raspberries, strawberries, black currants, lettuce leaves, chard. Now I've got to do something with it all.

my first potatoes of the season grown from a rogue potato in the bed from last year, I got over 2kg from one plant, 4 huge potatoes and 7 regular size and only 2 bitty ones for the composter.

We are having 1 each of the huge ones for dinner, I was able to cut them in 4.

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Hi also harvested some carrots from the tunnel and a head of cabbage from the garden.

Lettuce and another mini munch for lunch

Tomatoes, 4 courgettes (sorry Scarlet). Mangetout, DFB and the first of the CFB (Hunter).
I carefully picked the CFB and put them in the basket, standing on end inside a container. Turned my back to pick some more when Ted saunters over, selects the longest of the beans and eats it. Meanwhile, Bess and Spud are picking their own pea pods.
I suppose it makes a change from pinching raspberries.