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Hedge problems

disease which kills woody plants - especially those that are otherwise under stress. Sadly, the only option is to grub up the plants and burn them. To check whether it is honey fungus you should look in the soil for the black 'boot laces' or rhizomorphs by Kev Kelly

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03/01/2012 14:54:47

by PlantChatta.com

Problem with Magnolia

://www.btinternet.com/~micka.wffps/weevil.jpg Looks exactly like that. Some leaves are totally eaten away. My poor little tree looks miserable. Any suggestions on how to deal with them. The grubs do more damage -especially if container grown-have a read of this from the rhs http by Carol Mc

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17/06/2012 17:00:22

by Carol Mc

Frogs & Ants

've emptied the old grow bag - that will have destroyed the nest - the frogs will eat any grubs/cocoons left laying around. If you've got plenty of activity going on in the greenhouse now that spring is here the ants are likely to look for somwhere else dry by jjgarden

17/05/2013 00:03:50

by jjgarden

Talkback: Stag beetles

suitable undisturbed breeding places. Reply to FriedaI think you may be labouring under a misapprehension. Just as young butterflies are caterpillars, young stag beetles are grubs (or maggots or larvae depending on our vernacular choice). They do vary by fruit trees

28/11/2011 18:38:48

by Cathy

What is eating my cooking apple tree?

think you are right and you probably have a borer grub at work there. Try a google for "apple tree borer" which may give you some ideas on ways to treat it. Some of the google images look very similar to your photo's. If you don't get it soon by Nicole2

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21/06/2012 23:03:41

by BobTheGardener

Bee news from The Beeb, Eu Ban pesticide

Weevil Killer 2) as a liquid drench applied to the compost. These insecticides give protection against the grubs for up to two and four months respectively; treatment in mid- to late summer will control the young larvae and prevent damage occurring later by blackest

30/04/2013 17:54:06

by figrat

Talkback: The first bumblebee of the year

great number of whte grubs, quite fat and orange type heads but small. I have had my hosta for some years - for some reason I picked up it wasnt well last year - three flower heads when it had lots of flower heads for some years previous. Any ideas by Dancer

28/11/2011 18:38:14

by bufftail

Talkback: Protecting fruit from birds

Not me! Mainly because the wasps beat the birds to my fruit.... that is, all those that haven't already fallen prey to codling moth grubs.But part-eaten fruit are still good for juicing (once the nibbled bits have been cut away). And like Ryan, I by Ryan

28/11/2011 18:41:24

by Testosterone 250 mg

Eelworm in Onions

did contain onion fly grubs, though we have concluded that they are a sort of 'secondary infection' because the plants are weakened) but they all have severely distorted foliage, flattened and wavy leaves, and are generally unthrifty. We wondered by Raven48

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26/06/2012 17:04:22

by Raven48

creepy crawlies in the soil on the allotment

cultivating your soil and nuke what you find as I do. I always do at least an extra 3 of everything I put in and keep them in the tunnel or coldframe. When I see a wilting plant I dig it up and 8 times out of 10 there's a chafer grub but the other times by pennypat

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21/06/2012 21:45:06

by moe72

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