Hi Felix

Thanks for the info. I'll plant deeper next time.

Can you help?

I recently harvetested my garlic and whilst it tastes good, the bulbs/heads were 'open' and not tight as you would expect.

Any ideas what may have caused this?

Thanks for all your replies, very helpful. I think they must be chafer grubs as we did have lots of adult chafers flying around in the Summer. Not having seen the grubs before, I didn't put the two together!

Thanks for the suggestions so far. Im familiar with Vine Weevils, and these are much bigger, so I'm doubtful that they are the same. (Maybe they have bigger ones here in France ) I have now put some pictures on Divshare. Click this picture (this one is a little blurred I'm afraid)to take you to a fe...

I have found a large number of grubs in my compost. They are white with orange coloured "heads". They are quite fat and about an inch long. I took some pictures but haven't quite worked out where I can put them so that I can put an image tag in Does anyone have any ideas what they might be...

Bit of a late reply, but I just wanted to say thanks very much to all of you who kindly replied. I will put your suggestions into action very shortly.

This is my first posting, so hello out there. I have recently inherited a large and slightly overgrown garden and would like to know how much I can cut back shrubs, in particular Philadelphus, Spirea (white flowered) and Viburnum Tinus. I think they are at least twenty years old and although they ha...