Pests, Diseases and Cures

Well, having been up there just now, I suspect it was the wind. Pictured through the enviromesh:

Perhaps your cat feels deficient in iron!. I believe that the pure ferric phosphate is 'safe' to mammals; it's used in human food(?) Its the chelates EDDS &EDTA i ngredients which are toxic .I would be happier if the bait was attractive (to molluscs) and reliably fatal.

It's difficult. We can only trust the labelling, I guess (although that is backed up by law). Some places (e.g. Wilko) give a "germination guarantee" ("Should these seeds fail, we will be happy to replace them"). What that's worth I have never tried to find out. I'll be interested to see what...

There is a reason for neither soapy water or plain water being mentioned, neither of these have been licenced as pesticides for the control of blackfly and it would, technically, be illegal for the RHS to recommend their use. Note many contact insecticides contain soap or soap like compounds...

I dont know about @Drahcir but my site isnt accessible to anything bigger than birds and rabbits, we also get the odd mink so my guess for the damage to my own onions is the pigeons that live around the site and the ones that live on site.

Will do, thanks.

Thank you for replies. I decided to remove it as was very sticky in the area I sit in. It was also going to be a problem as was getting quite big and was too close the house. Thanks again for answers.

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.