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to be quite brave and brutal, he used to laugh at how delicate I was being and then go back when I wasn't looking and take it right back to a couple of inches! Lol Well there are leatherjackets & vine weevils in my garden, but no other plants are effected.  I

. Take care not to disturb the beetles before an application, or they'll jump out of harm's way.brassica seedlings, nasturtiums, alyssum, anemone, stocks, cleome, godetiaspring, summerMore common garden pestsLily beetleRosemary leaf beetleCapsid bugsLeatherjackets

was the result of leatherjackets or chafer grubs, which are so abundant and damaging at this time of year. But on closer inspection I noticed that just about every single blade of affected grass was a golden yellow-orange colour and covered with a dense mass

and reseed. I know it's bit late but I've been reseeding recently and germination is rapid. When you rake see if chafers and leatherjacket larvae are still to be seen. If so,then treat again

and leatherjackets can devastate lawns by eating the grass roots. You can get a lawn grub killer to control these pests. If you cover a small area of grass with sacking or plastic overnight and remove next day you may see these grubs. Don't rake your grass too

! Have a look at this web site! Cheers! www.kilwaughterlime.com   Cheers. Hydrated lime is the one to go for, slugs, leatherjackets and wireworms hate it. If you use just gypsum, it will improve the soil texture but not change the pH, best to do a soil

also use it for Bayer Lawn Chafer Grub / Leatherjacket control, which comes as a powder in sachets but is teh same ingredient. . I worked out last year that it is around one tenth the cost oer square metre.  Figrat, the response would be the same either

thought that was usually starlings.  Oh, well, Lunarz must have a superb lawn clear of leatherjackets ). I get rooks (there's a noisy rookery close by) and jackdaws who amaze me with their cleverness, flocks of starlings who clear the leatherjackets from

-munching birds. Perhaps the birds are also after soil-dwelling creatures under your shrubs, such as vine weevils, leatherjackets, chafer grubs and worms etc. The (now resident) blackbird in my garden sifts through all my pots, hopefully keeping vine weevil

of leatherjackets, the larvae of daddy long legs. The blackbird and robin love pecking through the borders to find themKate I have a massive buddleja bush. The flowers are yellow balls and it is in full bloom. I have great pleasure watching the bumblebees