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Talkback: Planting out tomatoes

and aubergines out last week and yesterday found LOADS of hoverfly larvae munching all the aphids. Hope this weather lasts! Kate Hello Italophile. Thanks for the info on how Marigolds deter 'Root Knot Nematodes' - didn't know about that. I'll now put more down by oldchippy

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01/06/2012 22:12:57

by Anaconda2

Get Rid of your Lawns

parts, and lumpy and undulating in others. I take the mower over it when it starts to look really untidy and I dig out a few dandelions and plantains when I get the urge to, but it never gets watered and it seems to survive. The bees and hoverflies by Palaisglide

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12/08/2012 18:13:27

by ChapelGirl2

SYSTEMIC PESTICIDES

, and this is potentially catastrophic for bees. There is really no need for gardeners to be using these pesticides, I don't think any plants are worth losing our bees over, there lots of natural controls; in the case of aphids just wait for the ladybirds and hoverflies by borderbeeman

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30/07/2012 17:05:04

by ChapelGirl2

Talkback: Aphids

want to harm the ants - I'm guessing the rhubarb leaf solution would poison both? Clarmallagh, I think the little larvae you found on your blackcurrants may be hoverfly larvae, which will eat the aphids. Re. this business of getting rid of insect pests by alistair

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22/06/2012 19:54:03

by LisaJ

Talkback: Butterflies

'm not complaining about that! Despite its reputation as a butterfly magnet, buddleja is a very poor nectar source for butterflies, bumblebees or hoverflies. I've never quite worked out exactly why this should be so, since I too have memories of the purple spikes by John Waters

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28/11/2011 18:37:18

by Rebeca

Talkback: Autumn gardening jobs

population under control, we also have damselflies, hoverflies, butterflies, moths many varities of bees, insects I do not recognise. We have had Hedge Sparrows, Blackbirds and Sparrows nesting and though the Goldfinches do not nest in our garden we have them by ChristyRose

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28/11/2011 18:44:14

by Todd Eric

Talkback: Native versus non-native plants

bumble bees of different kinds. We are surrounded on all sides by sprayed farmland and our nearest managed bee hives are about a mile away. Last October I had 4 different types of bee plus hoverflies and a tortoiseshell butterfly on one single sedum by donutsmrs

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03/07/2012 10:42:58

by Gracie5

Talkback: Draining ponds

grains, twig segments and snail shells. There's a link for you here. Some soldier flies and hoverflies have aquatic larvae too. I don't think they'll eat your tadpoles. More likely your frogs will eat the fly larvae! Hope this helps. Best, Kate hi kate by Dragonfly

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28/11/2011 18:40:34

by Angel

Talkback: Paving over front gardens

and lots of century-old builders’ rubble beneath. Since then, the new garden has exploded into life. As well as the wider benefits mentioned in the piece, there’s the small thrill of seeing hoverflies, earthworms and magpies doing their thing in what by happymarion

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28/11/2011 18:43:27

by Lisa

Talkback: Mouse in the compost bin

by Agatha

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26/02/2012 16:55:50

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