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cavities, often with wasps still inside feeding on the soft flesh, making the pears unappetising to eat. Prize pears can be protected by covering them in old nylon tights, squares of horticultural fleece, muslin or something similar. You can also hang up

the wasps can enter.Small holes in soft fruit or tree fruit, often with a wasp inside.Individual prize fruits can be protected by covering them in old tights, horticultural fleece, muslin or something similar. Hang up wasp traps filled with jam.Wasp nests

to other plants. Carry out repeated, preventative spraying the moment the first batch of tomatoes starts to set. Use fungicide containing copper. They don't provide 100 per cent protection, but an attack will be slowed down and you should get ripe tomatoes

and early autumn, give tomato plants overnight protection with horticultural fleece, which should keep them safe until the first frosts.tomatoesspring, summer, autumnAdvice and common problems affecting tomatoesCaring for greenhouse tomatoesTomato leaf mould

Tiny sap-sucking scale insects. They are 1-6mm long, and their whitish, grey-brown shells are covered by protective, waxy scales. The insects don't cause too much damage unless they are present in huge numbers, but some excrete an unsightly, sticky