Pests, Diseases and Cures

I'm now getting birds pulling the flowers off my courgette plants!

I was leaving that one till last,..... grim reaper

Two of my three new honeysuckles had this same problem. They were both planted in large pots. For both I did the same thing at first: I plucked off every affected leaf, gave it a spray of anti fungicide and I started feeding regularly with a liquid feed every two weeks. On one, this did the...

I went round and had a look this morning, nothing obvious Could be malicious fairies.Ta for the tea Dan Lovely Garden you'm got there

I don't know

Just been out in the pouring rain, can report that the rain does not pour off the shed onto the roots, it just kind of drips down the side onto the concrete slabs the shed is laid on..so the area is receiving water but not more than it would be in a normal rain shower...the water is not focused...

Finger and thumb.

Ants will protect the aphids from predators and move them around. If you provide the ants with an alternative food source (say some sugar syrup in a bottle cap lodged in the runner bean foliage) the ants will remove the aphids for you. They see them as a competitor for their new food source.

Good luck! Hope you manage to control them!

If it was hailstones I would have expected more damage not only on the Buddleia but on other plants, so I suggest an inspection of the underneath of leaves just to make sure there are no pests lurking. My shed is a lot tougher than your Buddleia, it will survive with a new coat of paint!

Well the ID has got me stumped...all the suggestions I would have made relate to evergreens. I'm pretty certain though that whatever it is it's suffering from either bacterial canker or fireblight, which probably entered by the wound at the top of the trunk. Being a lovely-shaped standard like...

Here you go, I knew I had read it somewhere...

Learning every day, me

Anyways, it works a treat to get rid of 'all' aphids regardless of colour, and I think helps stop them returning..

It's possible the pots were a bit waterlogged in the spring...I've drilled more drainage holes now.The compost has slow release fertilizer in it. Thank you for your post.

well got 28 of them, for a pot, which hangs by the mail box, in perfect light, etc. and there has been nice rains etc. They have been there about 4 weeks now, no sign of real growth much. That bothers me. Everything else is growing like crazy.

Mine , are feeding the 2 pigeons that seem to have set up a camp, under my solar panels. I find the slugs, pop them onto the garage roof and within moments, Mr + Mrs Pigeon are tucking into a nice evening meal.....

I have never tried nematodes but I think I will. I am growing more plants this year that don't seem to be affected by slugs/snails but, it would be nice to grow certain others too!

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Hi all. Thanks for the advice about this - I didn't expect such a great response! I'll take a look at it again and hopefully report back success @fatcontroller - it does look like cottonwool. All in all pretty horrid!Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk