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<blockquote data-quote="Devil's advocate" data-source="post: 7828079" data-attributes="member: 1504"><p>Oddly enougth this year, I drilled some swedes next to a footpath to protect the winter caulie crop from dogs etc. They were drilled 20th July & they are a perfect bagging sample (sadly not netted so have rootfly) when ever I've done that before they have just produced leaf.</p><p></p><p>The other problem with swedes is cabbage flea stem beetle, they can really stunt or even wipe out young seedling. I've had damage to my culinary swedes this year from CSFB, dry weather at emergence so I had an uneven stand, the flea beetles made things so much worse by really hammering the later emerging seedling. Thus the resulting crop is all bigun's & little'uns however there is plenty of weight. So unless the OP's seed was more than 4 years old he could have had problems from day one.</p><p></p><p>Nets help with flea beetle but harder than root fly to control</p><p></p><p>Sensible rain at crop emergence really helps to get that even stand & intial vigour to survive.</p><p></p><p>Minecto one can be used to reduce problems from cabbage root fly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Devil's advocate, post: 7828079, member: 1504"] Oddly enougth this year, I drilled some swedes next to a footpath to protect the winter caulie crop from dogs etc. They were drilled 20th July & they are a perfect bagging sample (sadly not netted so have rootfly) when ever I've done that before they have just produced leaf. The other problem with swedes is cabbage flea stem beetle, they can really stunt or even wipe out young seedling. I've had damage to my culinary swedes this year from CSFB, dry weather at emergence so I had an uneven stand, the flea beetles made things so much worse by really hammering the later emerging seedling. Thus the resulting crop is all bigun's & little'uns however there is plenty of weight. So unless the OP's seed was more than 4 years old he could have had problems from day one. Nets help with flea beetle but harder than root fly to control Sensible rain at crop emergence really helps to get that even stand & intial vigour to survive. Minecto one can be used to reduce problems from cabbage root fly. [/QUOTE]
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