Every last impecuniosity totally exterminated

exel1966

Judging by the packaging the IAMS was a store specific clear out of Xmas stock. It doesn't feature on MSM so probably not widely available though worth keeping an open for just in case.

tigerwhite_2

stu007 wrote: »

Are you on Facebook?

Local selling pages on fb are a good place to sell kids clothes, just search for 'your town' selling / for sale

I have and I did - got nothing, not even a sniff :rotfl: I'm going to do freecycle for the leftovers.. A bedroom is taken over with clothes (kids and OH's), waiting for me to dispose of!:eek:

Sarahdol75

Afternoon all,

So glad there is no big glitch on at the minute, am struggling to keep up, since we been away at the weekend, and we are off to Porthmadog again at the weekend, got lots to do on house.

(((Huggs)) to Tinyshoes, hope all goes well today.

Queenriderbrekke

Morgy9 wrote: »

Artha and midwinter - I too have had lilies for the past 15 years no problems and found 4 of the red blighters on them this weekend :eek:. Not sure if they've just landed or worse that they've over wintered. (I am west yorks area). So no longer confined down south - so all you northern lily growers get out and check your plants for the red blighters.

Would have thought they were less likely to spread with the carp summers of the last couple of years. Think I might get rid of lilies (container as very clay ground here) - just plant new next year.:o

We had a bad attack of Red Lily beetles about 4 years ago(East Anglia) I'd never heard of them and consequentially they took hold on hubbys lilies, I manually cleaned the blighters off, the larvae are disgusting, surrounded by their own poo so I must love hubby to do that!

I now watch his lillies 3 times a day betweeen mid April and mid October and the furtherest they have got since is one lot of orange eggs laid.

No need to get rid of the lillies, if you have cleared all traces of the beetle off them x

midwinter

Morgy9, Fairclaire, Artha, this is form the RHS website, might be useful to you:

Red lily beetle overwinters as adult beetles that go down into the soil and leaf litter in the autumn. This could be anywhere, not necessarily in the vicinity of lilies and fritillaries (consequently, there is no advantage in attempting to treat the soil below lily plants). The beetles begin emerging on sunny days in late March and April when they seek out the foliage of host plants. Eggs are laid in small batches on the underside of leaves during April to mid-summer. The eggs hatch and the larvae feed on the foliage. When fully fed, the larvae go into the soil to pupate. The next generation of adult beetles emerges from mid-summer onwards. These beetles add to the feeding damage but there is only one generation a year and these late summer adults will not mate and lay eggs until the following year

artha

Morgy9 wrote: »

Artha and midwinter - I too have had lilies for the past 15 years no problems and found 4 of the red blighters on them this weekend :eek:. Not sure if they've just landed or worse that they've over wintered. (I am west yorks area). So no longer confined down south - so all you northern lily growers get out and check your plants for the red blighters.

Would have thought they were less likely to spread with the carp summers of the last couple of years. Think I might get rid of lilies (container as very clay ground here) - just plant new next year.:o

I used to have a 20ft x 3ft border completely devoted to scented lilies but it only lasted about 3 seasons before they all rotted off in a wet winter. I now just have a few in pots that are moved out on display for the few weeks they are in flower but have had a lot of casulaties with the wet weather. Poundland often sell bags of cheap and cheerful lilies at this time of year...mostly non scented asiatics but found some white scented orientals (Siberia) there a couple of years ago and still have them

Queenriderbrekke

Interestingly, I have usually killed about 10 beetles by now, this year there have been none, may be the cold winter killed a lot?

artha

midwinter wrote: »

Morgy9, Fairclaire, Artha, this is form the RHS website, might be useful to you:

Red lily beetle overwinters as adult beetles that go down into the soil and leaf litter in the autumn. This could be anywhere, not necessarily in the vicinity of lilies and fritillaries (consequently, there is no advantage in attempting to treat the soil below lily plants). The beetles begin emerging on sunny days in late March and April when they seek out the foliage of host plants. Eggs are laid in small batches on the underside of leaves during April to mid-summer. The eggs hatch and the larvae feed on the foliage. When fully fed, the larvae go into the soil to pupate. The next generation of adult beetles emerges from mid-summer onwards. These beetles add to the feeding damage but there is only one generation a year and these late summer adults will not mate and lay eggs until the following year

Thanks Midwinter. As I've never had a problem with them I don't know anything about them. I didn't realise that they were also a pest with fritillaries. Might just be coincidence but we were given a large planted bowl with fritilliaries in as a present in spring last year. Wonder if they've come in on those if they were sourced from further south?

midwinter

Just checked Buzz, 9 campaigns running, and not had even one of them

fairclaire

artha wrote: »

I used to have a 20ft x 3ft border completely devoted to scented lilies but it only lasted about 3 seasons before they all rotted off in a wet winter. I now just have a few in pots that are moved out on display for the few weeks they are in flower but have had a lot of casulaties with the wet weather. Poundland often sell bags of cheap and cheerful lilies at this time of year...mostly non scented asiatics but found some white scented orientals (Siberia) there a couple of years ago and still have them

Mine are all in pots too, the clay soil here is no good for them. I always buy cheap, reduced from B&Q etc at the end of the season and repot for the next year. I think I must have around 15 different types now, asiatic and oriental. My absolute favourite is the stargazer one