Pests, Diseases and Cures

Yes it has been raining and I have buckets of collected rainwater for watering plants.

Thanks @ricky101 .....you learn something new everyday.!!

I dont know about you but wasps are definitely down in numbers around here this year. Ladybird, I've seen a few, which is more than I've seen in some years, but not many around really. If it was to stop raining and get warmer it might help, but I think after the lousy spring the damage has...

This evening I still found lots of lacewing larvae on my miniature roses, and a tiny two spotted ladybird. The lacewing larvae seem to be busier pursuing the greenfly.

I know it is not front door. No trails. I know slugs can enter through tiny gaps.the back door is a modern upvc door, but I will check seals.

Yes, it simply acts as a deterrent. The recipe I posted was from Monty Don.Nick

My passiflora incarnata WOULD be flowering as well, if it wasn't for all the slugs eating it faster than it can grow. With lots of luck it has now reached a height that's out of our slugs reach, but it took a lot of personal care to get it there.Would you mind sharing a picture?

Growmore is a good general fertiliser around the garden and veg patch but you need something more specific as you have found out for your azalea ...

So, I have found this on a rose, a bay tree, an azalea (all in different parts of my small, South Wales garden) - and those are just the plants I've inspected carefully. Some leaves are worse than this...much more yellow - I have removed the worst affected leaves, but can anyone tell me what...

Cheers Pete. I'll leave it be and keep my eye on it.

We tried a few home made remedies ourselves.First was a really, REALLY strong black tea. We brewed it specifically for this reason, let it cool and then sprayed it onto the leaves. Within a day there was a giant aphid party. It looked like a Techno-Rave and they multiplied like crazy. ...

I wouldn't worry about the curling, I think it's pretty normal. If the yellowing is only on the bottom leaves, it could be possibly a magnesium deficiency or just the leaves getting older.If the plants are well looking in general, I wouldn't worry.

Ahhh - lucky lady!!

Ok, sorry, I thought you was in the UK. If you didn't get freezing north east winds in February you must have been hiding under a duvet.

Thank you! Fingers crossed. It really looks a mess with the eggs affecting the majority of the leaves so really hoping it works. I'll keep you posted!

Thank you so so much for your time and all your explanations, I saved it for the future! Thank you, lovely gardeners, for all support, it is much easier to solve problems in my young garden

There is FB&B + potato fertlizer on all 36 potatoes, but whatever it is burrowing, it's only interested in the one plant.

All of the above. This year, apart from the usual border weeds contributed by FYM, there's also the 4,000m2 that used to be a lawn, full of every weed known to man. Well apart from celandine and nettles, that is. I treated the 90% of couch grass last summer and have to wait until October to...

thanks very much for replies. i used to have ants in and around paving now no. i think all of them took up residence in dalek bin i still have worms wood lice etc in compost .so it wont matter keeping moist.best regards peter.

Well, I dont think its rust. Is there anything on the underside of the leaves?I'm thinking its something it might just grow out of when conditions improve and it gets established.