Help MBE grow his dinner 2011

mrbadexample

Fay wrote: »

I had a good look this morning but couldn't see anything-I'll be out tomorrow investigating. Sadly I'm stuck at work on this glorious day boo

I did extra in the week to squeeze out most of a day at home.

annie123

mrbadexample wrote: »

What are you going to do with about 1500 chillies? :eek: :rotfl:

:rotfl: as the seeds we kindly given to me by someone on here I'm passing on mini plants tomorrow at an mse meet up, a couple to neighbours and the rest will be split between my son and I.
He loves chillies.

I also have other chillis growing, you can't have too many:D

annie123

mrbadexample wrote: »

I was looking at that picture of the PinP (post #207), and I saw my little (then new) lavender plants behind it. They've grown a bit since then, I thought, so popped out to have a look:



If you look carefully you can see that some of the leaves have been nibbled.

And then I found these blighters:



So, what eats lavender? I need to know, because I like to think I'm fairly wildlife-friendly (sawfly excepted ). If they're a common menace, the birds can have 'em. If they are uncommon, and not too destructive, I wouldn't necessarily be averse to putting them back.

Any ideas?

Edit: On the plus side, I'm pretty sure it's not rosemary beetle.

Been out to look at mine an no sign of anything, and I've never seen any caterpiller on them ever. Is it near anything else that they might have migrated over from?

They're cute though, I like bugs

mrbadexample

annie123 wrote: »

tomorrow at an mse meet up,

Ooh! Ooh! Where we meeting?

mrbadexample

annie123 wrote: »

Is it near anything else that they might have migrated over from?

Nope. The lavender's about the only thing growing up that end apart from grass.

annie123

mrbadexample wrote: »

Ooh! Ooh! Where we meeting?

Blackheath, south east london, all are welcome

mrbadexample

annie123 wrote: »

Blackheath, south east london, all are welcome

No, sorry, much to far to come. I'd waste a valuable day that I need to be gardening.

annie123

I don't want to be in the garden tomorrow, hubby is putting in new fence posts and panels, so I'm doing what every sensible wife does....................get as far away as possible:D

mrbadexample

annie123 wrote: »

I don't want to be in the garden tomorrow, hubby is putting in new fence posts and panels, so I'm doing what every sensible wife does....................get as far away as possible:D

Hopefully, a man will arrive to replace my fence too (I say hopefully, because I waited a year for my shed!). Once that's done, I really think it'll start looking the part.


And to those of you with gooseberries, I've just found my first sawfly, so start looking.

Fay

Here are my poorly peppers



I will be doing the washing up liquid spray tomorrow!