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Brassicas are notoriously hard to protect and we have all seen cabbage and broccoli leaves stripped down to a sort of skeleton as a result of pests. But netting goes a long way to solving the problem.

I have some fundamentally healthy looking broccoli (under netting) but most of the plants have a few minor holes (ranging from 0.5mm to 3mm) in the leaves. Is this a problem? Are these even pests, or just some kind of wear and tear in the leaf structure?

Tea Drinker
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It sounds like you've got slugs. Put out a beer trap and check it every morning. That should solve it. A few holes in it won't hurt the plant. You could try putting copper rings around the bases of the plants. Slugs can't stand copper.

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