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What's up with my Gooseberry bush?

island, however today I've had a closer look and most of the leaves have been stripped off. leaving very few fruit on spindley sticks. Any thoughts on what pest does this? Could be gooseberry saw fly caterpillar-they can strip a plant bare overnight http by Leggi

11/07/2012 18:38:00

by Leggi

Nettles for Butterflies

patch is at the back of a shrub and the other at the side of a compost bin so they don't really bother me. Nettles are absolutely essential for the butterflies of our 5 most popular species to raise their caterpillars. These butterflies require stinging by Green P

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08/07/2012 21:33:37

by Green P

Talkback: RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2009 - herbs for wildlife

you eat as a crop before it seeds but it still can provide a home for swallow tail butterflies to lay their eggs. The caterpillars are very civilised and only eat the foliage fronds and they're rather gorgeous too. I grow fennel every year after by catwoman1

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21/05/2012 17:03:24

by Bookertoo

Talkback: Roses and their pests

's my excuse anyway.Happy Easter everyone. Last year and this year in July- September our roses have been decimated by caterpillars. Not one or two but hundreds. Each leaf can have between 20 and 50 caterpillars and they can eat the rose bare in one by Joe Logue

28/11/2011 18:30:59

by Woodley

Is it still ok to feed dried fruit to birds bearing in mind the young

dried fruit would be as bad. Have you tried soaking it a bit before chopping in the processor? I find the parents come and fill their tums at our fat ball, peanut and loose seed feeders and that gives them the energy to hoover all the aphids and caterpillars by Lavender Lady

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15/03/2013 08:04:26

by Bunny..

Talkback: Frost

more so at the moment i am going to keep to that. Jane -- I'd like to be as gleeful about what the frosts are doing to pests as you are, but sadly I'm not! I came in an hour ago from the veg. plot with a good crop of caterpillars off my sprouts, [both by Gartenzwerg

28/11/2011 18:37:38

by joseph woosey

Mildew

reduce other pests such as caterpillars, that the extra birds you have attracted into your garden find these an extra bonus! Hello Hedgehog, You could try enticing birds into your garden with the following projects from gardenersworld.com: Making fat by Emma Crawforth

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06/01/2012 15:41:49

by Lindylou333

3 year old leaf mould containing cameraria ohridella

on the continent by burning the leaves. Is there anything we can do to kill any insects in the leaf mould without burning the whole lot? Dear Carole, As you say the horse chestnut leaf miner is a moth. The caterpillars make the mines in the leaves, then pupate by Carole Gadsby

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02/02/2012 17:33:51

by Emma Crawforth

Pumpkins

Squash plant and mine is getting eaten too, but there is NOTHING to suggest caterpillars/slugs/snails. As a few of my plants have been being attacked to the point that there is nothing left (Broccoli, strawberries, and a few others too) all the same by heather gent

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12/06/2012 19:06:11

by Shirley5

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

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