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(causing no damage) to be taken up by the sap-sucking whiteflies.tomatoes, cucumbers, fuchsias, other greenhouse plantsspring, summer, autumnMore common garden pestsAphidsLeaf miner flyEuonymus scaleMealybugs

, just as the new foliage emerges, as a preventative measure.shrubs, roses spring, summerCommon problems affecting trees and shrubsAcer tar spotLeaf miner flyReversionPowdery mildew

to autumnDealing with common garden pestsMealybugsWhiteflyLeaf miner flyEuonymus scale

bees that visit the flowers may be killed by traces of these chemicals in the pollen and nectar. horse chestnuts, magnolias, cornus, bay, lime and acer trees. May-SeptemberMore common apple and pear trees problemsCankerEuonymus scaleLeaf miner fly

tiny) garden.The garden isn't perfect and I've a long way to go, but I've documented my success by the variety of garden visitors I've gained since the transformation: blue tits and great tits, bumblebees, butterflies, moths, slugs, snails and leaf

. Despite the recent gales it is still clad in fantastic, gold-tinted autumn leaves. It bears traces of the dreaded horse chestnut leaf miner that has infested so many trees in recent years, but it isn' t too badly affected. I regularly inspect its trunk

as the plants start to flower.The spinach I'm growing in troughs as a salad crop, as you need to grow buckets of it for cooking and I don't have the space. Spinach is also prone to leaf miner fly, which bores holes into the leaves and lays eggs, so picking

.Radish 'Scarlet Globe' or 'French Breakfast'Miners' lettuce is so easy to grow it has naturalised in some areas of the UK. It provides a steady salad crop from October until March, and tastes similar to spinach.Miners' lettuce/winter purslaneOriental salad leaf