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Talkback: Bugs and daylilies
this year, too, and it is upsetting to take all the buds off. I have heard that it only affects early varieties, so I am still keeping my fingers crossed for the plants that still look OK.I don't like to spray but I do spray against lily beetle (oh yes, we by Michaela
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28/11/2011 18:36:40
by Anonymous
Talkback: Protecting crops
just been out to water all my veg etc in greenhouse to discover that the lavender hedge that i have grown from cuttings is covered in rosemary beetle!!! Lavender was the only plant that the pesky rabbits dont chomp. Boo hoo. Cant spray as dont want by val
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28/11/2011 18:38:49
by karendave
Talkback: Signs of spring
of spring,the crocus look brilliant in the sun,the birds singing and blue skys is just what we all need.hope this dry weather lasts a bit longer. Found two lily beetles on my early flowering iris although the leaves have only just broken through - had hoped by sunshine angel
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28/11/2011 18:40:32
by Aanee
Talkback: Derelict gardens
for the winter. Then I kept reading that wildlife needed the seed heads and dying plants etc in your garden, so this year I did not tidy my garden. It is alive with so many birds of all kinds and insects, beetles and ladybirds are still around, all over by Allotment Robin
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28/11/2011 18:41:33
by kaycurtis
Talkback: My gardening year
be rosemary beetle? If there are enough of them they can kill the plants (they're very beautiful though).Sokanista - Thank you, I know you're right. I just want the garden to grow, it still looks so new!Happymarion - Thank you. The garden does make me very by maureen60
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28/11/2011 18:42:45
by Kate Bradbury
Talkback: Biodiversity at the Malvern Show
lunch after doing some biodiversity gardening(planting sugar peas between my rows of potatoes), lesson no.2. We lost our elm trees to the elm tree beetle because they were all of the same species. Last year in Bristol, many Robinia "Freesia" trees died by Wildman of Pershore
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28/11/2011 18:43:36
by happymarion
Talkback: Sunflowers and hoverflies
.7m and is looking glorious behind the shed amongst thistles and nettles. The soldier beetles have never had it so good.. Yes, lazygardener, I too have been removing the dead bumblebees(dirty orange bums, Kate,)from my conservatory which they seem by Mo
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28/11/2011 18:44:01
by mooncarrot
Talkback: Making leaf mould
on the compost heap and the compost is excellent. We used to have many sycamores which produced loads of leafmould which rotted down more quickly if packed in black sacks and left a year or two. There are always lots of beasts in the compost, beetles, slugs by James Bond
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07/12/2011 14:41:38
by Kate Bradbury
New Clematis
chemiclas very much ( I make an exception with provado for lily beetle, as I grow a large amount of those), but some things do call for special action.   If your plant does have clematis wilt, don't worry - you need to make sure the clematis is in the pot by Jill Smith
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07/08/2012 08:41:32
by Jill Smith
Root maggots (I think)
pots they love, so keep trying to spot the adults too & well just kill the little devils.  if you touch them, they play dead and drop to the ground up side down making them even harder to spot, like the red lily beetle.  the nematodes need moist soil by emmarose
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06/04/2012 15:04:54
by emmarose