Growing Broccoli

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16 Oct 11 leah (Australia - temperate climate)
what would be eating my brocolini??? is growing really well but i don't want to share with the bugs!!! what can i use that is natural to keep bugs off?? or maybe plant next to it as deterent?? any suggestions?
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30 Dec 11 tam (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
I had big problems when first planted out my brocoli with something eating the leaves, no sign of caterpillars or moths, spoke to my uncle who used to pick veggies for living, he suggested mixing up 20ml biodegradable washing up liquid with 1000ml water and putting in a spray water bottle, spray the leaves top and bottom but not the head if developed, it worked nothing has touched my brocoli at all. i re spray every 3 weeks now but at first i sprayed every second or third day depending on rain.
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02 Nov 11 Robert (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
All broccoli in my garden suffers at this time of year from rats. They are quite voracious and eat the heads and shoots but not the leaves. I fix the problem by feeding little green cakes of rat poison held in place with nails on the garden edging. They ate three boxes of the stuff over 4 nights.
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19 Nov 11 dave (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
i had the same problen i fed rat bait for one week it turned out to be possums i got the experts in and traped 7 in 2 days problem solved!
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I had big problems when first planted out my brocoli with something eating the leaves, no sign of caterpillars or moths, spoke to my uncle who used to pick veggies for living, he suggested mixing up 20ml biodegradable washing up liquid with 1000ml water and putting in a spray water bottle, spray the leaves top and bottom but not the head if developed, it worked nothing has touched my brocoli at all. i re spray every 3 weeks now but at first i sprayed every second or third day depending on rain.
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