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Bird Feeders on the allotment?

pellets etc. Enjoy your new plot!!!! Hi Twinklekat, if you feed the birds now, they'll be more likely to come to your allotment to feed on caterpillars and aphids in spring. You should have more than enough fruit to share with them in autumn anyway, so by Twinklekat

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11/04/2012 22:03:25

by burhinus

Need some help with my blackcurrant plant

flys and other aphids attacked the plant damaging all the leaves So I just cut off all the infected branches and all was fine after.. So I don't really know what to do with this plant becasue now there are just loads of growth but no fruit! other info by alex_wonga

17/08/2012 13:22:15

by alex_wonga

Talkback: Hibernating insects

with grey aphids attacking them. It has now reached the stage where they have infested the underside of the tightly curled kale leaves and similarly gone right into the broccoli florets to render them both inedible. There seems little point in trying by Pippa Greenwood

28/11/2011 18:37:51

by Pammy

How long do Lupins live?

flowering well and look strong and healthy, except when attacked by slugs, knocked over by gales and (the latest) visited by lupin aphids. I'm not aware that they have a short life.I cut the flowering heads back to a new shoot once they've gone to seed by Lunarz

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05/08/2012 23:18:10

by christopher2

No Ladybirds

spell in march, but hardly any now. Guess they didn't like the wet... Still have plenty of ladybirds but not seen any larvae - probably not looking hard enough! This year the aphids are HUGE but mostly they've not been a real problem so something by Robot

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07/07/2012 07:56:49

by Gary Hobson

Talkback: Slugs and hedgehogs

frogs that are great for keeping the slugs down.can you give me any advice on what i can make at home that will kill or stop aphids My children think i'm mad! But every other night after dark, with torch and bag. My husband and I go slug searching by Di Barker

28/11/2011 18:36:49

by exdinnerrita

Talkback: Asparagus beetles

-to/problem-solving/garden-pests-rosemary-leaf-beetle/?CMP=%20KNC-SH8218390392&gclid=CNWkiO26t5MCFQ88QwodgQR3DA Reply to TangyI think you were right to start. They are probably the larvae of the harlequin ladybird, Harmonia axyridis. As well as eating aphids, they will eat other soft-bodied invertebrates like by bunnysgarden

28/11/2011 18:39:04

by leilah

Talkback: Harlequin ladybirds

they will settle down properly and not be disturbed by central heating. I found them to be extremely effective biocontrol agents in my greenhouse this year. I collected around 20 from the garden and placed them on the aphid infested pepper plants and within a week by gerry

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28/11/2011 18:39:51

by gardengirl

Talkback: Tree buds in spring

leaves and flowers that follow. Having said that, we have a Beech tree that overhangs our garden from the neighbouring infant school. It is a handsome specimen, but this year it is infected by a white aphid on the underside of the leaves. They secrete a by ml1627k

28/11/2011 18:40:39

by kathryn.brock

Talkback: Planting out tomatoes

attacked by aphids. Ah, so that's why my tomato plants went like hotcakes at my Open Day, even after the organiser insisted I put the price up from 30p to 50p! Hard luck, Kate. Perhaps some good friend who lives near can give you some plants? My by oldchippy

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01/06/2012 22:12:57

by Anaconda2

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