I must be quite lucky, usually find friendly slowworms breeding in my compost, so I wait to turn after they have finnished nesting.

Hi Plum Pudding, thank you for the recommendation, is it a greenhouse variety outdoor od dual? I will give those a try. I bought some italian tomatoes in our local market the other day, they were called flavorino tomate, they were obviously commercially grown, but with a name like that I just had to...

Plum pudding, I think you sare wise, a couple of years ago, i purchased some gogi berrieswhich unknown to me carried blight, I lost all my tomatoes that year, now I try to grow my oewn and save my own seed.

Thank you Alan.

Wondering if the pherome only lures that particular moth or if it traps other harmless pollinating moths too? m Having read the research above, I think pheromes are a much better option than pesticides. Maybe interplanting and companion planting might make them less attractive than the usual monocul...

Diane, I think I know where it goes, when autumn came and the foliage died down in my garden, I found a few soggy remains of green twine around the garden - I have vowed that in spring the new twine I buy will be threaded into a large brightly coloured tin that I can't lose among the foliage ! Mouse...

I found this with an image of the moth, and it also attacks aubergines, peppers, potatoes and solinacious weeds, etc

Tuta Absoluta or the South American tomato moth -

http://www.russellipm-agriculture.com/s ... =1&lang=en

maybe grow under enviromesh might protect, like we do for cabbage white
butterfly ? maybe they won't tolerate a hard winter?

You two are great, wouldn't it be wonderful to stretch time, hugs.

Catherine, I laughed till the tears came, This seems typical political topsy turvy logic !

That's a good idea, thanks to the bankers we are all going to be taxed up to the eyeballs. Thinking of food, if we are helping emissions by producing our own, we should press our MP's for those things to be vat free. I am starting a gardening method that needs no fertiliser or compost, will be using...

I would most like some help / labour in my large garden, the back garden is productive,and doing well, but as I am full time carer for my 91 year old mother, I have not had time to do much with the front garden to make it attractive.

With you 100% on this. As governments are not taking responsibility it is up to us to take individual responsibility for the sake of our children, and we can sequester carbon in our gardens as well as farming. With the heavy rains we have been getting and possible droughts in summer too, i have been...

Squash make a good base for soup, if you can get hold of some pataks prawn bachilow fry a spoonful or two with onions and then add stock and squash, bitz when tender, makes a superb soup for non veggies.

We are fortunate to have a local independent supermarket Jempsons, they stock local dairy produce, local fish and meat and local veg and fruit pickles, honey, and herbs, wonderful service too. Great reductions , we just bought two packs of 12 sachet cat food for a pound each, just damaged card boxes...

Some you win and some you lose, I had a lovely crop of late lettuce in the greenhouse, more still growing well too, and spring onions in a polystyrene shallow box also in the greenhouse using the tiniest onions from autumn sown onion sets. I also planted some late radishes, but they didn't fill out,...