Pests, Diseases and Cures

Heh heh, enjoy!!

i know they can be a nuisance but i love Cabbage Whites i'd much rather have them eating their way through the garden than slugs

Several of my snapdragons have gone really manky with brown rust. I have cut them back. Are they likely to recover and do anything worthwhile?

And here is my King Edward crop, harvested yesterday (8 or 9 plants only).Usually these are very susceptible to wireworm and slugs, but as you can see they are very clean and damage free. I think two have small holes in them and more where damaged by my fork as I lifted them! Steve...

Hiya folks, thanks for the input. They are indeed Pollen Beetles, relatively harmless

Clutching at straws, but is hail stone damage possible or burn marks from hot sun through droplets of water???As hans says though the rest looks very healthy so it should be fine

They just look like finished flower heads to me. Pick/cut them all off and you might get more. My dianthus out the front do that every year about now, and because there are so many of them, picking them off individually would take ages, so I tend to just trim the tops off the all the plants....

I planted a rowan in a patch which had been part of some old foundations, still quite rubbly and dry. I must admit to neglecting it terribly, and it began to look much like your photos. Last winter I took pity on it and gave it some bonemeal and watered it more frequently. It made a huge...

Let us all know how you, and the Clematis, get on. I think patience is the word with it

It's probably lack of water, there has been very little rain in the past weeks. Try giving it a good soaking. My young trees are looking a bit sorry for themselves to and as I garden on a sandy soil I've been watering them every three days.

Very possibly, as Loli says, a lack of water may have contributed. An old preventive remedy is to scatter grass cuttings in the trenches when sowing - though I can't comment on how well that works as I've never got grass long enough to cut when I sow my first spuds. You may find the RHS info...

Thank you, I have posted it in the trees forum as you suggested. Hope I have a bit more luck.

Well that settles it. I will get some as it sounds like it will be a lot less hassle and less expensive in the long run as I have spent £10 on bug sprays with no deterrent for that white butterfly! Thanks for all your advice. I'm maybe a bit late this year and damage has already been done...

Hi, pleased to meet you. I'm on plot 51 which is about half way down on the left. If you've time tak a look at the plots above and below, I might be wrong but I think they have blight

Thanks al n, that's what I thought but as I'm new to this I thought I'd consult the forum experts!

Blue Tits will have had a lot of them while feeding their young. Saw my first Ladybird of the year today, and the Honeybees have finally found the Borage patch

It's difficult to know what could be wrong, perhaps it just needs time to settle, mean time keeping it watered. I've got similar issues with a young Buddleia I planted early last year, they are known to grow rampantly anywhere and on any soil, but not mine. It's still only 1ft high and I'll...

what the weird translucent looking one with the yellow banding? never seen anything like him before

Thanks Dave. I thought I would bite the bullet and cut all the spotty hallums. I harvested the bag without anything left and sure enough - a lovely crop of perfect new potatoes. We had them boiled and still slightly warm with mayonnaise. Bliss

Soil is clean Sheal. I think the black blobs are fungal grows -0ught to have done an autopsy but too late now! My guess is that something had a good nibble and then the rot set in.