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In my allotment there is one patch of soil approx 20ft x 15ft that is infested by  small worm like things that are about 1/4 to 3/8 inch long silvery grey in colour and about a milimetre wide, when resting they coil up like a spring. All winter I put potatos on sticks and buried ...

Having moved from the countryside to a house with a very overgrown garden in the city, I have found black jumping insects living in the soil in my greenhouse and under pots outside.  They look like shrimps or fleas and are about 5mm long . When disturbed they wriggle and jump and...

Anybody out there who can help with advice about the problem of red-spider mites on house plants? One of my prized plants was killed stone dead in one infestation ( a 30 year old citrus shrub that I'd grown from a pip). Does anyone know of a systemic insecticide that works? Some ...

Hi there, something is eating the leaves on my raspberry canes, leaving me with no fruit. this is the second year this has happened. Can anyone help please?

But the ladybirds are coming to our rescue, Pippa, at least mine. They are there in an instant when I take anything outside from the conservatory that has aphids on like the odd aonium. I do hope some of the early buds are not going to be destroyed by the sudden change in the w...

something keeps eating the leaves on my raspberries canes. This then destroys the plants and I don't get any fruit. Can anyone help please? I'm almost sure this will be Raspberry Sawfly, Jeanette. I would recommend 'Pravado' do deal with it. thanks very much. will try it and see.

I have a problem with an old grapevine in a pot. Budburst was about 10 days ago and the leaves are puckering quite badly. There are brown lesions and holes on the new leaves. The stems are covered with something which looks like candyfloss along with the underside of the leaves. ...

My neighbour has three cherry trees of different varieties in her garden. All are affected by the same problem. A fruiting cherry and a Japanese flowering cherry in the front garden have been largely defoliated (the picture above is of leaves taken from the flowering tree yesterd...

Hi All, We have a small box shaped hive in our garden. Last year we had some bees in our hive. We loved seeing them buzzing around. One very sad day we opened the hive and the bees were all dead. The appeared to have been destroyed by some white maggots with red heads. Does anyon...

I have some seedling tomato plants, a few of which are being munched by what I can only describe as tiny, thin, white spiders. They are eating the leaves, and the infected plants I have thrown out. They are in my greenhouse, but I had the same thing last year on older plants that...