getting ready for the BUGS!!!

cootambear

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Lol, hardly an insult old boy, merely speaking the truth.

Nothing to do with me not tolerating your stance, more to the fact that you write total gibberish.

I'm not even going to bother arguing it with you.

Fabulous.

Then you agree, we are free to garden as we wish?

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leek moth will be about any day now and I have spent a sleeples night wondering how to protect my masses of leek seedlings as they like young plants. The moths come out at night so I thought of bringing the containers in every evening but that defeats the object of hardened seedlings. Today I am going to simply cut a length of my environmesh to fit loosely over the front sides and top of a 3 tiered rootrainer stand that I have. Dh has already made removable slats so I can stand pots and troughs on it as well as it holding the rootrainers. I`ll look into using clothes pegs to hold the sides together. I`ll also put all my brassica seedlings and young plants underneath as cabbage whites have started flying here

I saw my first vine weavil beetle yesterday. I know what they look like but have never seen a real one. It was legging it across the top on an empty planter. Very easily recognisable and had seen some leaf damage in a pot. It moved quickly and I had no hesitation. I have now ordered vine weavil nematodes, which will be delivered in early may. My neighbours in my last home had them and they devastated some very beautiful plants. I have seen the grubs too a couple of years ago and they are fat white things with a brown head. They attack inside and outside ie also plant in the house and in the greenhouse

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Zenoka

Mmmm bugs, my favorite subject!

This year most of our strawberry plants have been eaten by leather jackets (yuck I hate them!) but we got in early to stop the infestation of brown tail moth caterpillers this year. A few years back our hawthorns were decimated by these hairy little cretins. After lots of research we found an effective spray to kill them (they drop dead instantly!). Using chemicals is a last resort for us, but with something like the brown tail moth the catapillers can cause really bad rashes and allergic reactions and I worry about the children.