Pests, Diseases and Cures

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

Our son got the fright of his life when a rabbit was dropped on his head by a buzzard while he was walking through a wood. He also did a nice nice line in "Bunny Burgers" when he had his ferrets.

I to used Chestnut Compound last year when my seedling were suffering from dampening off it worked well I was pleased with the results

Moral.Put at least 1" of gravel/broken croc in the bottom of your pots and use free draining compost. Stand the pot on a pot saucer 3/4 filled with small (pea) gravel If the saucer looks wet then don't water, wait until it's barely damp or just dried. If you do feel the temptation, mist (not...

They ruined my geraniums too...they are difficult to spot cuz they are pale green, small and skinny, wish i knew how to get rid

That's a good idea Peters. There is a lovely clematis that is evergreen, perfumed, and hardy- Clematis Armandii. It flowers soon and has lovely white or pink flowers. I think you would need something else with it though for summer colour.How about a rose, so many colours and types that will...

Same here loads of little flies in conservatory, I like the soap idea and will do.

You could try this :-"A large greenhouse grower in The Netherlands found that garlic plants are an effective way to repel thrips. He uses three potted garlic plants for every 30 square feet of bench area."- and no vampires either!

They like our pear tree too

They are only doing what come natural to them, in much the same way as cats. Difference is most cats dont need to. Sorry cat lovers. :( :rolleyes:

OK, Garden Insect Killer diluted in the water never worked as I thought. So resorted to old traditional way, washing up liquid diluted in the water and guess what, it seems to of worked. Tomorrow shall tell for sure.