Thursday, June 12

Pest and disease

We gave a carefull baggy check on plants. Broad beans looked good and alreay ready for crop but some were attacked by black fly. I rubbed bugs and pinched the top to distruct fly although I should have done early. Tomatoes has huge colony of aphid. I found many ladybirds fighting against them though. Soap spray didn't seem to work, so I rubbed them too. Basil were jagged, supposedly by slugs or wood rice, and so were raddish. Outside blassica, such as chinese cabbage, santona, komatsuna were terribly nibbled by slugs and flea beetles. They became too hard because of harsh weather, strong wind and drying. I found these were not marketable. The final shock was the notorious crubroot on inside komatsuna. It was not too bad, probably the first stage and leaves were still fine. However I decided to take out blassica as soon as possible. We heard that previous farmers also suffered from this annoying disease in this garden, which is said to take 7 years to get rid of.

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