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and roses - yummy - can we really believe that is going to happen? Forgot to add I also put some Munstead lavenders in my ros ebed to help keep off the aphids but they don't cope as well with our winters and I've recently had to remove two more corpses.  Two

sparrowhawk swoops.    I also hang peanut feeders near roses and clematis so they go and hoover up the aphids for their young.   I never need to spray with anything.  They pick caterpillars off the veggies too. The ones round my way seem very fond of birches

of mistakes, but I've had a lot of success as well. The first year I lost all my tomatoes to the dreaded blight, my dwarf french beans were covered in aphids, the brassicas were decimated by caterpillars and I stupidly sowed carrot's in modules

that this plant gets chewed off every time it raises its head above the parapet. Next plan? Copper ring, same mulch, same cloche. This year everything, and I mean everything, was infested by aphids, white fly, green fly, mealy bug. Despite our efforts, most

to the concentrate. Stores well for up to three weeks in a screw top jar in a cool dark place.Spray your plants with this, and it's bye bye bunnies, it's also great against aphids.I hasten to add, that l personally, have never tried this recipe, although my friend

be due to pink aphids which I've been dealing with, but someone else thinks this could be red spider mite? Thanks again, Louise BP Yesterday I planted a sorbus aucuparia and a eucalypus gunni next to each other infront of our fence to use as a screen. I

they are and how i can get rid of them. Thank you. The bugs are probably scale insect or just aphids. If scale insect they live in little hard grey shells under the leaves - scrape off with a finger nail or wipe with a soap based insecticide. Chris - Squirrels

garden as it keeps down the aphids on the roses and beans. My butterfly garden is awash with forget-me-nots every year and very beautiful. Leeks left to seed give lovely flower-heads and new leeks the following year. The yellow sysirinchium

-shells at their roots and my broccoli seem to be thriving much better as slugs and snails don't like sage apparently.  The ones left without sage have been eaten to a skeleton.  I also have a wall of chives along my brocolli to deter aphids and enhance flavour.

smothered in aphids. To cut the story short I lost both pots of basil and after several trips outside to treat the chillies I just gave up the hassle and harvested them. I read about how to treat plants with aphids, but it was so time consuming I don't know