Pests, Diseases and Cures

Just googled, as I have (luckily) not come across this pest. Interesting page about them - thought it might be of...

Me again, just in case anyone out there is interested, I found out that these caterpillers are friendly (after I panicked and killed a few) and they eat black and greenkfly.That's why they went black when squashed!! Durrr I gather they are the larvae of the hoverfly.

Still just a stick of a 3 foot shrub, but always green when I look under the bark.

Absolutely right, Jack. When the "Soaps" come on I play with the computer. Unlikel;y to grt much damage from "Reds", they live on Brownsea Isloand, all the best, sorry about the spelling Caitlyn, my g-daughter is sitting on my lap!

Got to admit that I have never come across anything like this. Cacti wise, that is. Just a thought, but cacti, although they need water, should always really be in drought conditions.

I think they might have gone...well off that Lily anyway :rolleyes: I flushed them out with the hosepipe and there doesn't seem to be anymore....yet?????? Will keep watchI've got enough problems with slugs, I don't need flies aswell Do they hurt the plant Dai?? If so, how should I...

I dont`t know what compost she has used but I am visiting next week and I will find out more, take some pictures also

Palustris speaking about Jaye's fluid,how i hate that stuff i wish it were illegal.my neighbour uses it quite often to wash down his concrete garden,i have to close all windows and doors i have asked him nicely to try diluting it ,but no way he just chucks it down.after a while it smells like...

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.

A nice reward for all that work

Thanks guys I'm on their case!

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

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

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.

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...

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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

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!

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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...