Pests, Diseases and Cures

One thing, Fran, I love the "eh"! I say it to my cat, Magic Sam, and now he says "eh" all the time!Heading up to Autumn ... lovely ... we've still got three months to go for that! sigh! I've just come off the deck (second story) and it's still 26,7oC ... but that's okay, the a/c going in...

For me - when thanks to some new orientals I got lily beetle and they stripped all my lilies - a pair of secateurs and a daily check got rid of them. Plus removal of any grubs seen. The secateurs - I found that if I tried to pick them off, they just dropped to the undergrowth usually belly up...

Gad, another page about slugs, seems to have been a favourite topic in July. Pity I was not yet in gc or I would have joined in.

I just came across this page and I am laughing so much that I can hardly type, have to keep wiping my eyes and holding my stomach. I detest slugs, I find them disgusting and what some of you wrote was just too much. The one on the glass was of course the worst, followed by fish-finger tasting...

If its an old tree, I've just been told by a gardener I had working at my house that if you pull off the smaller apples early in the season and throughout then the other should be bigger and better. No tried it myself this year as its too late but might give it a go next.

I think you`ve done the best thing with the splint. You could even tape it up if you like so no air can get in. With luck it`ll heal..chilli`s are quite robust.As you`ve temporarily (semi) detached the root system from the rest of the plant you may want to mist the leaves occasionally until...

Thanks for the links and advice. I can't wait to try the birthday card idea. Although it will probably end up a batttle of whits - who can stand the card music the longest!?!

Finally managed to get some pics, but I apologise for the size and quality. I haven't worked out how to do this properly yet, but you can see the problems - damaged leaves, blackened stems, split at top of tree...

Mines gone all peelywhallie and pethetical like wot yours have, and hant ardly had no peas to speak of, bloomin disaster just more stuff for the compost heap I say

GREAT TIP sparkle, will remember next time :eek:

wish i had ladybirds rather have them

Thanks BM, Anything that hangs like a drunk is welcome to party with me 'n' Stella :D :D

Hi Scarecrow,if it's any help, I'm new too and I had a poor cordyline which I'd stuck in a galvanised steel pot - with no drainage holes. I'm sure it all but drowned and the leaves drooped and peeled off. It went right back to just the upright stem and it looked all but dead. But I couldn't...

I went on a torch-lit wander last night and caught a snail on the top leaf of one of my hostas!!!! it had climbed all the way up the pot, up the plant and up the stalk - leaving a huge hole in the middle of the highest leaf!!!!! Almost as if it was hell-bent on doing the most visible...

I have only had BER on my beef tomatoes and I think it is because they need more water than the regular toms. I have got gardeners delight which give me a handful of lovely toms every other day and alicante, which are just starting to ripen. No BER on these varieties.I am growing in growbags...

My sumach is still a mystery. It is now shootingly strongly from all except the first branch affected, which is shooting from very low down. Some weeks ago the border in which it grows suffered from weekiller spray blown from next door. Perhaps it was this? But still, why were the golden rod,...

you beat me to it liz and Fmay has got them to, SNAILS and a few SLUGS :D

I've had an old tin bath (small) in the garden for a bit whilst I'm doing my DIY work. I thought it would attract wildlife, but like Andy I found it just went green and stinky and was populated with drowned snails!! I thought all the wildlife gardeners recommended it?

Shrubs and trees need a lot of water in their first year after planting. That may be the cause of the buds not opening and leaves shrivelling. You can trim of the brown leaves if you like and give as much water as you can. Then wait and see if they recover.

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