Pests, Diseases and Cures

I made up that vinegar, salt and washing up liquid solution and sprayed the stuff coming through the drive a couple of days ago..it is looking rather brown and crispy now! Just need to try and get it on the stuff in the borders now withough killing the other plants!

Like Lemmings...?

No, they won't flower again this year. You can get some different types that flower at different times of the year.Also tree peonies flower about a month earlier than herbaceous ones, they can work out expensive and I feel their flowers don't last even that long.Fortunately their...

You are right aaron. He's just gifting to his own:hehe:

Yes, perhaps I am overwatering. I never let the surface dry out! I will search for chilli powder in my cupboards.

We had a large fig tree in our back garden. The milk from tree where you took off the fig was used to remove warts and was very successful. I still love fig jam but y0u don't see it on the shelves over here. We also had a quince and a pomegranate tree growing and ever year they were full of...

Hi Emma. Yes those are the little blighters I saw, thanks for the link, very useful. I've ordered my nematodes online so hopefully it will won't be long until their days are numbered.

Hi I use a slug bell this protects the pellets from being dissolved by the rain

Your rose will be fine Hetty.

Well Roger, roses usually start flowering in June - and if you're lucky you will still be getting the odd one at Christmas.Ants - no expert here - I usually find they are not doing any harm. However this year I found a pot of violas looking really sick and on closer inspection the place was...

Hello Good Gardeners,Sadly I can't include myself in that title. I was wondering if someone would be kind enough to take a look at these pictures of my hedge and advise me what the problem is and how it may be cured.Thanks in anticipation.Niggel

:rotfl::rotfl: Love it Dave.. I have a wicked picture in my minds eye of you hiding behind your plants & popping up now & then to shoot 'em down..!!! :rotfl: Good Lick mate you will win..!! :thumb:

I have French marigolds in pots, about 8 of them, just dotted around the greenhouse. They make the greenhouse look pretty and their pungent smell ( I dont dislike it ) helps deter aphids from the tomatoes they are guarding :skp:

I have some pansy's hanging in pots outdoors which have a sort of white covering on the leaves and also some outbreaks of little black spots which then turns the leaves yellow and they die. I would be grateful of any advice.Here are some pics:

You should be OK if it was a new bottle & so should the bees.... As Palustris says, changes have been made.. :wink:

Sorry, can I just ask, does biennial mean 'for two years'. Is there another word for once every two years - is that a relevant word to know? And, does 'biannual' exist, and presumably that means twice a year?

Hi Adredwood. up here in my area in scotland the (Cordyline Australis) in nearly all of the gardens and park areas have been wiped out, due to the very cold winter and hard frost. some of these Cordyline had been growing happily for many years. some of them have been reduced to mulch :( ...

Definetley Ladybird Larvae so leave well alone so that it can get on with it's job of noshing aphids:D

Well, you could always spray with Provado (or the Canadian equivalent). It's a systemic poison so it should kill anything munching on the plants.:wink:

I've got a few of these hanging off some seedlings, anyone know what they are?picture not very clear, but they're about 3mm long