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- Limousin/Charentes toad land
So my first go at winter beans, occasional ones starting to flower. What is the best timing for insecticide use please. Regarding actual time, i like bees so intend to actually spray at night.
Don’t bother. You’ll only end killing your beneficials and still end up with holes in the beans. Winter beans are really only for feed anyway.So my first go at winter beans, occasional ones starting to flower. What is the best timing for insecticide use please. Regarding actual time, i like bees so intend to actually spray at night.
So my first go at winter beans, occasional ones starting to flower. What is the best timing for insecticide use please. Regarding actual time, i like bees so intend to actually spray at night.
Perhaps OP means pea and bean weevil, leaf notching has started in SE, so maybe more advanced in France, but with warmer weather around the corner the crop might outrun them before treatment needed.
So my first go at winter beans, occasional ones starting to flower. What is the best timing for insecticide use please. Regarding actual time, i like bees so intend to actually spray at night.
Listened to radio5 live "drive" prog this week and they were talking about the fact that if you put strawberries, for example, in a salt water solution a grub will crawl out in the majority of berries. The same happens with majority of fruit, blackberries etc. As the majority of people will quite happily munch on strawberries and not realise, don't see what the problem with bruccid is.
I also didn't realise that most beans have bruccid in them and it is only when they emerge that the hole appears.
Last year I sold 2 loads early and went for human consumption no problem - sold another 6 weeks later and rejected as full of holes! So waste of time spraying.
I grow winter beans some years they make human consumption, some years they dont .Last years did not a hole in any no idea why previous years full of holesIn my experience you are far better off avoiding human consumption beans. There is absolutely no effective way of controlling Bruchid beetle.
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