Pests, Diseases and Cures

It's easier to make a 'French' hunter scarecrow, "M" No horse or fancy costume required... Having said that, my first ones did have 'famous politician' masks. Guaranteed to scare the **** out of any living creature

That's good to know, thanks for the information.

Welcome to Gardeners Corner Pyrethrums probably your best organic bet, you can gget traps for them but i've never used them so don't know how effective they are

Best of British Michael! No personal experience of it, but, if you can generate some more plants from propagating it, that is all to the good. Its the pits when you have nurtured something only to find some pest has got the better of it!

I`ve seen some whitefly in my unheated polytunnel in the past week.

When I'm forced to use an insecticide on one of my border plants, which is rare, I protect the beneficial insects from the spray by simply using a plastic bag. Place the plastic bag over the plant covering it and the pot. Make a hole in the top of the bag, insert the spray part into the bag,...

Thanks @pete I feel better about it now

Thank you. I may try it I hope you can get rid of them again.

Also with chemicals you have to do it properly first time around

They've got to go through their garden first as the bin is the other side of their far fence in the alleyway

So the thoughts "Those humans look tasty." are only from some of the residents and not the management

I always have a good show from my clements I have 3 pot grown ones. It took a while for me to get to grips with them. I put large pebbles to protect the base of the plant but they do like a good drink. Mine started to flower the end if March and are still flower know.

That's what I have 5 and 6 inches long, Ive tried beer pots, copper tape the lot have to be careful about slug pellets I have 3 dogs, plus I do think of other wildlife. Yesterday was the final straw, I have a winter clematis doing extremely they were attacking that well when I went into the...

Snails and slugs are bad but try "bambies"! There are 2 young buck deer about atm and they have eaten 3 what were very nice clumps of Hostas almost to the ground...little sh1ts! The Hostas had this happen to them about 4 years ago and it didn't affect their growth the following year. I don't...

Both have died, one looks like it's been scorched which I know it hasn't and the other has turned black. Both are small plants no more than 8 inches high so I've kept them in pots..Any ideas peeps, would you just leave them and hope for the best? The dogs have not p'd up them one is sitting on...

And if you press the affected apples for juice, likewise with the pressed pomace.

Hello,Just on my morning potter about the garden and came across this. Any idea what the black dried dead bits are?ThanksSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Looks like Scab Nothing available for gardeners to treat it anymore, best you can do is remove and burn affected leaves and fruit, then keep it clean around the base when the leaves fall in the autumn.Are there any other pear trees nearby? as it can spread.

Stop applying when they're blue