Pests, Diseases and Cures

I don't know what they are, nor do i want to, I'd just get rid of them on an apple tree.

You definitely have my sympathies. I am fighting against the bindweed for 3 years now. Although I have a feeling it is getting better (digging up everything anyway was a big help), there are quite I few footholds beneath some bushes where I can't reach them.Only thing that helps is to dig up...

Think you will find them in any bags of compost and though there are many different retail brands they probably only come from a couple of manufacturers.Have tried several method to control them before, but for house plants and in the greenhouse have found that the Mosquito Bits that...

Probably wont help much but have a look at this: www.vegetables.cornell.edu/pest-management/disease-factsheets/virus-diseases-of-cucurbits/

HiNoticed some box caterpillar on my buxus hedge so sprayed with XenTari. It always does the trick and saved my hedge from disaster a few years back. Wasn't informed back then so initially tried neem oil, garlic and chili pepper spray which didn't really help.Just wanted to know if anyone...

I suspect that they would. Then they'd head for the beer traps and spend the following day feeling rather poorly, huddled in their shells

may have been waterlogged for a while plus we had a cold frosty winter which wouldn't of helped been evergreen and if the soil frozen they do tend to lose leaves ... just leave for now and I woudnt feed this year while the new roots are growing away just waterif we have a dry week through the summer

We sprinkled the powder under their wings and round their backsides. We also used it as a dust in the hen coop and on the perches and in the nest boxes. The can eat it witout coming to any harm from what I can discover.

Might end up being too potent or ripe!

Good for you. If at first you don't succeed etc.

The leaves on an established rose plant have started to turn brown. Does anybody have any ideas what causes this and what I should do about it? about it?

I haven't got a clue Pete. I've never felt the need to test the soil in any of the gardens I've had.

Its not seen a frost Pete, its been in Kent beside the sea, i'm going with its had a very sheltered upbringing in a Dutch poly tunnel and being bought was just too much for it, poor thing. I will find somewhere for it to rest, drop its leaves and hopefully enjoy a shaded summer.

I wonder if that would keep slugs and snails away from all seedlings?

Good evening yes I have four Hebe's and they have come through OK and they are green ones

One of my two Colquhounias is now deceased; curiously the more sheltered one is deceased' I suspect this was more the drought than the cold.

I'd have to chop down about 70 trees! I keep the grass cut low in most areas as it's the only way I can physically cope with it. The only area I leave uncut is the wild flower area, about 3,500sq ft, that doesn't get cut between November and late June. The wild flowers are all self seeded...

Thanks for all the advice everyone!

cheap and almost bomb proof and fast growing its not surprising they used so often, you can get them looking good but they'll never look quite as good as loads of other hedges

Gunnera manicata are a bog garden, pool marginal plant and they get huge; seriously huge. See here Gunnera manicata | giant rhubarb Bogs/RHS Gardening and Gunnera I've tried both G magellenica and G prorepens, both small species; they lasted a couple of years here in Devon and then dry summers...