Pests, Diseases and Cures

I think you need to bite the bullet and get squishing. You can use a spray as I recommended before but lets face it, would you prefer a quick squishing or a long drawn out poisoning if it came to it? I tend to look every day, particularly under the leaves and because i haven't sprayed I squeeze...

As you can see lady i basically have no excuse at all, i hold my hand up to having a complete mental block on the jeep cleaning job, I simply can't bring myself to do it

There was a thread about this on this topic site on 8/7/07. Scroll down and have a peek

im a gardener ,theres a bloke at work who cant prune conifers as he comes up in a rash ,i think this is quite common!

Make money from your snails!!! I saw this little item when googling and in view of all the GC members that have so many snails, I thought this was a useful idea."I was happily eating my oats yesterday morning in front of the telly, when I almost choked. nothing wrong with my oats, nor with...

I read that last year, thanks! thought more people would be affected by this problem?

thanks Hyla, I'll move it as it is making good progress through my geranium! Not quite sure what I want it too eat instead though? Perhaps it will accidently find it self at the other side o the neighbours wall :D

I had a ceanothus that had die back this year too, I cut it out then later more died so I cut it right back and now it seems to be growing ok, mine was only 5ft high though and I used to trim it after flowering in the spring every year to keep the same height. So fingers crossed it might grow...

Thanks Celia for taking the trouble to reply. No other ideas have been forthcoming so I'll enquire elsewhere. Perhaps a tree surgeon. A great shame if it has to be cut down as it's the main feature in that part of the garden.It's surprising how these things creep up on you - I only really...

Thanks Celia & wiseoldowl, I'm glad it is alright, as you might have noticed I'm not a lover of gardening, I've hated it since I was a kid as I never got anything right now I've retired I have the time to potter around and try things out......

I planted 2 Actaea and 2 Filipendula in a border, the Actaea ended up with mildew and Filip with Vine Weevils - I was not a happy bunny! Anyway, I used the provado and removed any leaves, mulch etc. from around the base of the plant, seems to have done the trick. I like Geoff's idea of...

Hope this works because I haven't posted a photo before. I was out in my polytunnel this morning and came across this little darling... and I have seen bigger ones in there. I left it on the bird table after taking its pic next to a �£1 coin. That was 1/2 an hour ago and none of the...

Hi Paul,I had the same problem with my Hosta's and also my Echinacea, I found that the slug pellets worked well. If you get the green waxy ones they will be safe around pets too!Hope it helps."Its a dog diggidy dog not a ball and a chain" :D

Hi ismeval the black slug(arion ater)is probably the least damaging of all the slugs an omnivorous species, eating carrion and dung as well as vegetable matter. It prefers rotting vegetation to living plants and consequently rarely does much harm in the garden. Largely nocturnal, but large...

Yes good idea.I will get my camera out tomorrow hopefully.Thanks Pete

I ventured out into the pouring rain this afternoon to have a look in the garden. I had a good look at the potaotoes and tomatoes which I planted in a portion of my neighbours' garden, and noticed some blight on both lots of plants which i hadn't seen before. I think it may be too far along to...

Tropical I agree with you entirely, and, monroe, when you`ve cut out all the affected parts spray the rest with a systemic fungicide every 10 days. David.

Hi mum4t. Is there a cat in the area? if there is it could be that it is " spraying " that is marking it`s territory. This causes the lower foliage of the tree to die. David.

Thanks Lisa. Obvious really, but too intelligent for me - I'll go look now.Kate

We had early blight this year on our potatoes, it started about 6 weeks ago on the earlies now we all have it on every plot on the allotment, i planted 28lb of maincrop this year, there now infected. did the spraying work, NO!