Pests, Diseases and Cures

I have a strawberry patch 1.5m x 6m. Yesterday I was digging out some of the plants in a section of the bed that had been in there for approx 3 years to replace with new plants. When digging them out I found vine weevil grubs in the soil. I tried to dig them all out but its inevitable that I...

Do you know what, in one of the gardners magazines i was readin in the supermarket one day they had they had a snail kit you could send for i think it was £20-30 contained verything even the food until they matured, they were beeing sold as a delicacy i thought they must think people are i want...

Evening All, Warning this is going to be a long thread so please read it all. Moles, The first thing you'll need to know is as much as you can about the "Mole" Lets start with the build up of a Mole, for a start he/she are not blind and never have been, Their eye sight reacts to bright...

This place opened 3kms down the road from us 3 1/2 years ago on a previous orange orchard ... sorry, it's all in Portuguese but there are some beautiful and fascinating photographs ... http://www.quintadobarranco.com/index.php

Hi everyone Belated happy new year. Just to update you, I sprayed the tree with soapy water, although the tree is bare at the moment , the branches look nice and clean, I have also tied greasebands around the trunk,I will spray the systemic insecticide once the leaves are back, hopefully this...

Sounds like a typical farmer's ingenuity, taking the idea from the sliding barn door and applying the principle to his gate.Proper farmers (ie the 'old school' farmers, not the businessmen that some of them are nowadays) are fantastic people. They just make stuff work. No engineering degrees,...

Id be inclined to increase ventilation, ZiggyBack on the bulbs in vases. Just wondering if those cut flower food sachets might do the trick.

Many thanksThat's just what I wanted, thanks very muchand I just might splash out on a cage as well, for my currantsAri

As always, you're forgiven:D

It shows you what a good rating GC has, it normally takes weeks to update a site. I might not have the quote exactly right, as Chopper still has my book. Harry Dodson, of Victorian Kitchen Garden fame.

Jasper Carrott said it right all you need is revolving stole, flash light and shotgun. Go out at night with mr flashlight when mr moley appears blam no more molely. Jasper Carrott - The Mole - Animated - YouTube

Cotton wool diseaseHello everyone. Thank you for your helpful responses.I will take your advice and let you know the outcome next year.Have a great Christmas.Thank you once again. Cybersioux.

Methinks tis an audition for the next Bushtucker Trial.

I suppose if slugs are determined to get into your nice, warm house, they will. Rather like spiders - which reminds me, I haven't seen a lot of them indoors this year.How horrid to be stung whilst you are asleep. I woke up to a tickling sensation on my cheek once and it was a spider!!! ...

Hi Grib.I found that the best way to tackle blanket weed is to use this...Amazon.co.uk: cloverleaf blanket weedAs far as I'm aware, it poses no threat to wildlife.Hope this helps.Cheers...Freddy.

I'm no expert on Laurels, but I think it may be some sort of food deficiency in the soil. Do you know what soil they are growing in, sandy, clay etc?

No worries, its an indicator that you have clean air too.

you could try sraying a rubarb leaf solution, it won,t last long but I think it shifts white fly.

Leave the poor little things alone. They'll be dying off soon anyway.

I've got a wasps nest in my flat roof. Even though I've had quite a few in the house, they only want to get outside and they have never once been aggressive to me, even when I've been on the roof near the entrance to their nest.I've been picking them up off the windowsills and putting them...