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kept finding adult weevils in my flat and I had nightmares about their grubs munching through the roots of my beloved plants.I used some nematodes to kill the grubs, then spent a couple of weekends frantically inspecting pots for signs of grubs and eggs

.In future, I'll empty out all my pots and inspect them for grubs each spring. But this time I'm using nematodes. These are harmless to wildlife, but attack and kill vine weevil larvae within three weeks. I've heard mixed reports about nematodes - some people

, that badgers and birds won't dig up looking for grubs, that dogs won't ruin with their scorch marks. And worm casts? What worm casts? Lawn life as we know it replaced by a carpet of convenient, sterile 'turf' -  like paving slabs in disguise.But what is a

the leaves young avoids ending up with a salad full of grubs.So far, I've just two pots of bare soil - one decorated with a wigwam of pea sticks - but it won't be long before shoots start to emerge. Adam Pasco and I will be blogging again about the progress

(protein) is fed to the bees at grub stage and can determine the bees' overall size and health. Highly bred plant cultivars tend to have been bred for their size, scent, appearance or disease resistance, so nectar quality can often be poor. Grow leguminous

the top layer of soil, replace it with fresh, home-made compost and give all the plants a good water. Any vine weevil grubs will be dispatched to the blackbird, and the thyme replaced with some garlic chives, which I'm ready to plant out. I'll prune out

actually established it as 'his'. He now patrols it from dawn to dusk, scampering around eating apples, turning leaves and pecking the lawn for grubs. He’s not frightened of us, or anything, it seems, as he has started chasing off other birds which try

the blackbird dug them up, looking for grubs. The second batch of seeds I sowed suffered the same assault. Sid then mysteriously disappeared - has another frustrated gardener taken revenge?The third batch of beans is barely past seedling stage. I'm sure

containing honey, pollen, and grubs. They create tough, silk tunnels, presumably to protect themselves from the adult bees. Before long the entire nest is gone, prompting the caterpillars to leave to pupate into next year's wax moths.When I found the wax moth