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What is eating my pea leaves?
There are many potential pests of pea plants, with aphids and pea weevils being the most prevalent.
How do you protect pea plants from pests?
Add a thick mulch around the base of the plants to help prevent the soil drying out. Most peas, apart from dwarf cultivars, need supports to scramble up. For taller varieties, trellis, bamboo canes and netting are ideal, while smaller varieties can be supported with pea netting or pea sticks (twiggy branches).
What eats snap pea leaves?
Insect Pests When pea plants or seedlings have been eaten down to the soil, cabbage maggots or cutworms, both grayish grubs, are often the culprits. To combat them, sprinkle wood ash around the base of the plants. Aphids and thrips cause deformity of the leaves or pods.
Do birds eat pea plants?
Keep in mind that to birds, some plants are way tastier than others. Peas, lettuce, squash seedlings and cabbage family members seem to be the birds’ favorites. These are the ones you will most want to protect.
How do you keep pea plants from eating?
Wire netting tunnels are quite a good way to keep them off until the plants are large enough to climb up the pea sticks or supports.
Can I eat pea leaves?
RAW: Both the leaves and the stems of pea greens are edible. We recommend pairing the uncooked greens with a light vinaigrette so their delicate grassy flavor comes through. COOKED: Lightly sauté the greens to highlight their savory flavor.
How do I stop birds eating my plants?
Low-growing plants and seedbeds can be protected by covering them with horticultural fleece. This will keep off birds and should boost the plants’ growth so they grow out of the vulnerable stage more quickly.
What kind of bug is eating my peas?
Hope you can save some peas…. Or could be pea and bean weevil. Adult pea and bean weevils (Sitona lineatus) eat semi-circular notches out of the edges of the leaves of peas, broad beans, clovers and vetches. The weevils can occasionally transmit mosaic virus of broad beans. Young pea plants are gourmet food to sparrows.
What kind of disease does a pea plant have?
Pea Plant Diseases. Asocochyta blight, bacterial blight, root rot, damping off, downy and powdery mildew, fusarium wilt, and various viruses are some of the pea plant diseases that may afflict pea plants.
What to do about weevils eating my peas?
I have looked up pea weevil, and sure enough, went out and shook the plants and some weevils dropped out – about four, which I attempted to catch and squish. I have been looking up what to do about them and the organic answer seems to be to shake the plant with a glued sheet of paper underneath to save them disappearing into the soil.
Why are my pea plants getting eaten by mice?
I figured, surely a few mice or a couple of rats or squirrels couldn’t possibly eat 3 whole rows of strong pea plants already 12 or 14 inches tall and growing fast. So I removed the teepees. It worked! Once again, I could see they were being eaten. More than I expected, but at least my plants were already big enough they were not decimated.