Pests, Diseases and Cures

Welcome!Are you sure it's not Ground Elder? The leaves look the same, but it's an underground-propagating nightmare... If it's this, it took us a lot of roundup last year, and some of the black sheeting the farmer uses for silage to get rid of it for this year. One tiny bit of root left can...

Good one Loli I'll try that one !

I have a jasmine, clematis and a new honeysuckle growing in three different pots next to each other. The jasmine and clematis had a tough year last summer when they went for a month or so without water but I revived them and they have been climbing away happily, growing hundreds of buds - the...

Got any chickens? If so, put them in the tunnel for a few days.

put them on a warm patio and they will stretch outI still say leather jackets , when put on the pavement and they stretch out to find a safe place to hide.Dark is best

"Firstly my chocolate vine: planted about 3 months ago on a south-facing wall, it initially did well but now the bottom 3rd of its leaves are going brown, and watering and bug-spraying don't help. I rip off the brown bits but they come back again"I have 3 Chocolate Vines and they all have...

Peter, as the ladybirds seem to be coming out a lot more now, how about putting some of them from the garden straight into your garden room?I do that with the greenhouse

Could do with a good watering as well!! Val

Although ... no sign of a flower shoot cut off from the pseudobulbs that have leaves going brown.I think I should send the photos to the supplier to ask their advice

Excellent - just what I like to hear!

I've seen a few caterpillar about as well

its a moth

Mice will survive if caught 'humanely' and re-homed some distance away, but it's supposed to be different with rats who'll have such a hard time after being released in another area (which I've also been told is illegal) that they will suffer and die.

Thanks guys I will get back to you with my results Sydney, Australia Backyard gardener and my favourite vegetable to grow are eggplant, tomato and zucchini! 18 Years of age.

Thanks. I must admit I am now not sure what type of grub it was even looking at the pictures.

I have done this before, not a big fan of the salt bath, as much as the hate slimys. Wondered if there was an easier way. Cheers Ian

I spammed it.

This was mentioned on the Terry Walton slot yesterday, could be what turned my leeks into a slimy mess within a week the other year.

I'm glad you pointed this out because I don't get the cardboard box bit either. Unless there's some sort of substance in cardboard that would counter the effects of sick soil? This I doubt but I'm open to being corrected on this.

They're the ones found near my hostas! Briefly Aren't the Selafield ones fluo green?