Pests, Diseases and Cures

I am growing Rocket early pots in a potato barrel. The leaves have been covered as they grew in the normal method. The leaves are now at the top of the barrel and I am letting them grow on. Problem is that the leaves look a bit poorly. Bobbly and a little curly is the only way to describe...

And sparrows eat rhem too. Little nuisance birds. I had to net mine to keep them off.

Hi - I have a viburnum that I planted last spring - just over a year ago. It was about 2ft tall. It has put out new growth, but within a few weeks of new leaves appearing they go black at the tip, yellow and drop off. I have given it a feed with a general tree and shrub fertilizer but there...

If you have sparrows Vegswap it could be them. They were eating mine as fast as they were coming out of the ground. I had to put a net over them. Little nuisance birds.

I would also go with the above coupled with shooting.

I just had to google that.....and i quite agree!!!!!!!

Thats a good idea LMRR, I love Hostas but they just get decimated by slugs in my garden so gave up growing them, maybe I'll give them another go if I can find this fabric stuff.

Yes i am sure the packet wasn`t out of the seed box ,i dont think there was any wilkos seeds in the box .

Cheers David, I'll have a look this week.

It's a cordyline-which kind I don't know, maybe 'Pacific Dawn'? However there are lots of purpl/red ones. I'm sure one of the Tropical Experts will be along soon.

thanks for the replies. and yes, they are of reach of the terror!! the seeds sown are: Carrot-Parmex (container variety) Sunflower-Giants Wildlife attracting Sunflower-Total eclipse Lavatera Godetia Nigella Zinnia Cornflower Nemophilia InsigniaI know some can be sown...

I have some thing eating my rhubarb leaves never seen that before.

If you want to be organic I think you have to be prepared to eat the odd bug now and again.A bit of meat with the veg is a good idea,.... ever eaten blackberries for instance, usually full of maggots, I know when I used to make wine from them there was always a good amount floating on the...

Blighter reported!:thmb: Thanks for the heads up David and the link Marley:gnthb::gnthb:

Hi and wekcome to the Forum. It is very annoying and ugly is it not? Actually though apart from that it does little harm to the tree as long as it is healthy and growing well. Copper sulphate would have no effect on it in any case. The larva of the leaf miner is well protected by the skin of the...

Hi.I've looked 'lime' up in my dictionary ( should have done that first) and it jogged my memory of what he said. Yes, it's a lime tree.How lovely. We have lunch under it on sunny days.Regards.Y

Ahhh... Sprintails eh? - Many thanks guys, I feel much better knowing that they aren't going to eat me or my plants : ) yes, I probably am a horticultural hypocondriact.I doubt I'll kill they little things, as they don't sound like they do any harm to anything. But I may stick to sterilised...

Not one single slug or snail spotted on my little patch for several years. I believe all down to our resident pond / frog population....:gnthb:

No fasciation is caused by a virus usually fungul to put it human terms it is a proliferation of cells super annuated upon themselves like a benign tumour

Well I gave mine what started out as a light prune, then found a load dodgy looking wood so took it back quite shockingly hard-down to about 6 inches of stem, that was in around May ish of last year, it put on lots and lots of new growth but the length was only a couple of inches then winter...