Where to plant Mooli and Chinese Cabbage Brassicas?

I found a caterpillar on my Mooli Radish before planting out, so that has gone in the Brassica "zone", under netting to keep the C.W.B. off

I've got a couple of different Chinese Cabbage ready to plant out (I think they are Brassicas?). Do they need protection too? and / or do they need to be in the Brassica rotation "zone"?

Thanks

 

Anyone got any suggestions on whether these need to be in the Brassica rotation zone, and if they are prone to Cabbage White butterfly please? Thanks.

 

Hi Kristen

I believe Chinese cabbage is a member of the oriental brassica family and therefore should be protected from the CWB.

I'm interested in your comment about the caterpillar on the mooli. I was trying to grow some purple German radishes but they became infested with caterpillars and I abandoned them. The reason, I think, is that I protect my main cabbage crop with netting from the butterflies and they become quite desperate to lay their eggs on something or anything. I have watched them lay eggs on the netting itself, such is their urgency to lay eggs.

So the message for us is, I think, if you frustrate the CWB in it primary purpose of laying eggs on good old basic brassicas, it will try the next best thing.

 

I've got caterpillars on my Mizuna too. Maybe all the succulent greens need netting at this time of the year regardless - the veg. patch is alive with the sound of ... munching

 

OK, the whole lot is going to be netted then ...

By the by, my White Leaf Beet / Chard has been decimated by the Pigeons, but they have ignored the coloured stemmed ones. I grew the White because I read it was less prone to bolting, but either way I haven't got any to pick!

The debris netting doesn't seem to have slowed down (shaded) anything growing underneath it, and was cheap as chips; a rabbit got inside the chicken wire barrier and ate my carrot tops, and the pigeons have done some other, less significant, damage, so I wonder if I won't net all my low-growing crops next year.

 

i have found lots of my veggies munched just recently! and up until now it has eluded me! i found little green caterpillars only this morning on my broccoli! i have half of the veggies netted to keep my cat off but now i'm netting it all!
many thanks
jane