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WASPS!!
in the garden - they eat caterpillars, flies and beetles, many of which are usually regarded as pests. However there's a great product called the Waspinator, which you hang in your garden to deter wasps from entering. It looks like a wasp nest so, being by moonchild1984
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04/04/2012 11:27:06
by Kate Bradbury
Talkback: Bug boxes
to grow,i grown veg last year, i grown beans carrots and peas.i hope to grow lots more this year. do you have any advice for me on growing plants. Reply to Weakleys. Please do not buy butterfly caterpillars to release in the garden. This is a waste by Anonymous
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28/11/2011 18:37:51
by mal
Talkback: Gardeners World Live 2009
about goosberry growwing i have four bushes healthy looking but no berries i pruned them last nov they are two years old Geranium sawfly: Greenish-grey, caterpillar-like larvae withblack heads that live on the underside of the leaves wherethey make by Terry R
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28/11/2011 18:38:52
by david
Talkback: Butterflies in the garden
't on the same page as this blog. Tonight's episode - Friday 23rd April - just closed with the presenter telling viewers to "feed juicy fat caterpillars to the birds". Way to go. Even my 12 year-old daughter caught it for what it was and said "did he *really by Pauline Claire
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28/11/2011 18:40:39
by Sarah's Seedlings
Talkback: Gardeners' Question Time
healthy. Does anyone know what has happened? My redcurrant leaves have been decimated. Found one or two caterpillars but no sign of an infestation. What has done it? Currants seem ok we have a cameillia that has what looks like white powdery thin lines by Eaten leaves
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03/08/2012 15:28:25
by newton
Talkback: Butterflies
Waystation. I've got over 30 Black Swallowtail caterpillars on the bronze fennel that I planted. Lots of buddleja here as well. Thanks! Cameron I too remember loads of butterflies in the garden when I was a child. Like Lainey, my own garden is only really by John Waters
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28/11/2011 18:37:18
by Rebeca
Talkback: Saving foxglove seeds
you can see is the caterpillar.I have lots of foxgloves,so much so that i have to thin them out often.the white and purple have made a lovely delicate pink one.I am going to collect these seeds and sow them myself insted of letting them self seed as I by bigdaddy
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28/11/2011 18:40:59
by justindylan111
Where have all the birds gone?
 for tiny green caterpillars in nearby oaktrees - and when I thought about it, I came to the conclusion that it's probably the moisture content of the caterpillars which might be really important for newly hatched chicks.  That got me thinking about when by Lunarz
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21/06/2012 09:27:12
by gardeningfantic
Talkback: Potato blight
I have just started my own little veggie patch in the garden and I keep getting all these tiny little caterpillars that eat all my strawberries and my mum says that I'm not allowed to use pesticides or anything like that so how do I stop by Mr John Phillips
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28/11/2011 18:29:43
by Jacqui
Talkback: King of cabbages
covered as long as possible with enviromesh. When the cabbages have reached a good size or they get to big I uncover them. This year they have been caterpillar free but I'm not entirely sure it's just due to covers as there were pleanty of cabbage whites by sandi
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28/11/2011 18:29:56
by janeyliz