Pests, Diseases and Cures

Hi Grubby. I think it is too early for blight so is probably a form of blackspot, but the way our growing conditions are changing who knows? David.

Hi, today I found the first few of theseThis is what they did to a rose last yearwhen the caterpillars have had enough they drop to the ground and pupate until next yearUsual bug killers seem to work but I squashed the flies as well just in case.Cheers MIKE

In my experience some Cherry Trees suffer a little transplant shock and grow a little sparse the first few years (not all, but some do). I say give it a little time.

I'm buying the pellets in bigger boxes, now the rain's gone they will get a treat tonight .... not. Cheers MIKE

I haven't got a Wilkinsons handy any more! :(

...garlic flavoured ones too!...

Hi linlin. Flies don't live in nests. What tree was it? I've noticed that flies seem to like Laurel for some obscure reason. All the best

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Hi, Gardening Which? answered a similar question recently by first recommending the squash 'em method, followed by sprays with bifenthrin, fatty acids or pyrethrum, but they only kill the ones they touch, so any under the leaves you miss will carry on sucking, they suggest instead a systemic...

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Hi Merroney,We had a similar problem over the last year with two box cones. I cut all the dead wood out this spring and you can hardly tell now that there was any problem. The good thing is box is great at regenerating itself.Good luck!

I am still waiting for mine to come through and I sowed them weeks ago in a pot in the greenhouse.My husband raed on the packet that spring onions{White Lisbon}should be sown at the start of winter,but perhaps someone else on here can help you

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or alternatively ring up Tiscali, AOL etc and say you are considering the Internet. You will be inundated with useless CD roms for the rest of your life...except for putting off pigeons. Air rifle...though make sure its not a neighbours racing pigeons first. My vegetable patch is plagued by a...

Couldn't they be a cream colour if they have just moulted their skin? Just a thought. Remember if they can't half shift then they are probably good guys. Wireworms are dead slow. Ground beetles move fast and they eat all sorts of pests like aphids etc.

Snails are like pigeons. They find their way back (probably via someone else's tennis raquet!

that would be 'incorrectly' not 'wrongly'!! :D

Thanks guys I'm on their case!

A nice reward for all that work

Hi, it ceratainly is very 'brown'. Aboves reasons sound good. I'd probably give the whole lot a good raking and watering and sow loads of new grass seeds, and see if that helps any, but i'm not a gardner, just what i'd probably do.