Not as healthy as we thought! 20200808

 

Yesterday I spoke too soon!  We picked our first harvest of ladies finger today and found out that the plants are not quite as healthy as we first thought.  As the picture shows, they have been attacked by borers. 

There didn’t seem to be too many of them and hopefully we have removed them all from the plants.  The trick to dealing with them is to cut them off the plant as soon as possible after they have invaded it.  Then they can’t get into the plants more generally through the stems or into the ladies fingers.