Pests, Diseases and Cures

The way it works is it has a advance party that sets up camp further along the stem or stems. Then one of them tips up and lays loads of white eggs, not unlike a spiders, and stays put while the rest march on. I thought it was some sort of spider a few years ago but no it is not. Before they tip...

Does anyone have any advice on how to control these creatures using organic methods? They are busy eating the leaves and copulating all over them. Please help!!

Thanks to you all for the information. Now I have a name, I have looked again and have found a good link regarding sooty mould. It is:http://plantclinic.cornell.edu/FactSheets/sooty/sootymold.htm

Thanks Rossco. They are both in pots so I will plant them and feed them. I hesitated about planting the 4yr old as it's quite big now and if it doesn't flower it would be a waste of effort, but you're probably right about the pots! The little one was left out the previous year and it did flower...

Provado Ultimate Bug Killer aerosol containing 0.025% imidacloprid and 0.05% methiocarb does for these within minutes. At this time of the year I patrol the garden in the early morning and can usually catch them "two at a time", which doesn't seem fair I know, but cest la vie. At least they pass...

Thanks for reply everybody, I take it as a foe then! Hope not to see them very often! :( :(Thanks again

No Dendy thats my other greenhouse------Its the Google greenhouse,plants grown for medicinal purposes only.........

It'll keep you fit, Stillthirsty, and you could probably do with the odd glass after (or even during!) to make it more pleasant. Or even eat all your easter eggs to help give you plenty of energy for the task ahead!

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thanks to all for your kind help paul

plant them up in containers or baskes and give them to friends, sell them or give them to a plant sale!!

Make yourself a couple of small wooden homes for hedgehogs to live in ,put them in a nice quiet corner, and let them eat the slugs naturally. www.michaellock.forumup.co.uk

If you have a small outbreak you could gently rub the scales (eggs) off of the undersides of the leaves and squashing any adults at the same time. Laborious I know but it helps reduce the spread.I do it on our trichophyla fuchsias once a week.

I've just had chance to read some of frogesque's link about yew. I agree it does make you think, I only hope the newspapers dont cotton onto anything like this at some stage, if they do they'll start another one of their panics and have all the yew trees felled. :(

Hi wrekin, you are not alone, I also suffer from the pea moth , but not to your extent yet. I am hoping this year to try a pheromone trap. this gives off the scent a female moth gives out, so the male flies into the trap and get stuck. no male moths, no maggots. the moth is not a long distance...

Thanks for that...anything to keep the little blighters out of my cold beer...and the Ants :D

Thank you so much everyone - I have been down and had a really good look and I think that - as you say - with a little patience they will be OK. I think I have been watering a little too often!

Fine steel netting might work you could cut the size you required keeping it away from the trunk with strong DIY wire rings or timbers. Farming supplies would have the materials. Rabbit pie?

Thank you, will do.

each to there own have tried crushed egg shells to no avail tried oats heard one gardener on tv say they worked got lager in slug dishes not got one slug only thing that works for us is pellets. unles they dont like the lager we use.any more ideas