Tag: flea beetle

Kale under cover

25 Jun 202310 Jun 2023 by Mike (tfb)

Kale and Brussels sprouts under row cover

Kale and Brussels sprouts are tucked away under floating row cover (with straw-mulched garlic in the back). This is usually to protect them from flea beetles that can devour the seedlings. This year, unfortunately, it’s also a deterrent to the … Read the rest

First salad greens of the outdoor season

19 May 2016 by Mike (tfb)

The season’s first field planting of salad greens, making a brief public appearance from under row cover, where they’re in flea beetle protection – we’re weeding today. Mustards, bok choi, arugula (a brassica relative), mizunas and more. So perfectly tasty, … Read the rest

Greens, protected!

12 Oct 201818 May 2016 by Mike (tfb)

Floating row cover, weighed down and made semi-transparent by water, is all that stands between fine young brassica greens and the scourge of the flea beetle. The cover is placed right after seeding, weighed down by rocks every 12.5′ feet, … Read the rest

In the greenhouse: bok choi vs flea beetle

4 Dec 202129 Apr 2016 by Mike (tfb)

Everyone loves the greenhouse! The warmth, the wind break…crops, weeds, all plants love it in here. Now it seems flea beetles have acquired the taste as well. For whatever reason, the FBs usually stayed out of the (much smaller) little … Read the rest

Kale under cover

First salad greens of the outdoor season

Greens, protected!

In the greenhouse: bok choi vs flea beetle

Working around steel

Beautiful bok choi