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Pea and Ben Moth / Maggott

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by Compo » Sun Jul 01, 2007 7:30 pm

Looks like once again my peas have got this again, I tried a different type this year, alderman tall peas, hoping not to get it, any ideas ? I...

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Last post by andys
Mon Jul 02, 2007 4:39 pm
Slugs again

Last post by Allan
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by King Carrot » Sun Jun 24, 2007 1:24 am

Hi all,

RE: slugs & snails,

I've used the "Growing Success" slug pellet,

for 2 seasons and believe it works. I’m...

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Last post by Allan
Mon Jul 02, 2007 4:38 pm
Holes in Capiscums

Last post by Compo
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by Compo » Sat Jun 30, 2007 12:22 pm

What could be eating a small hole in my tiny capiscum's in my cold greenhouse? The fruit is about half an inch now and the hole is about the size of...

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Last post by Compo
Sun Jul 01, 2007 7:26 pm
potato blight again

Last post by Granny
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by Granny » Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:55 pm

Some of my potatoes have just started showing early signs of blight - a brown, papery patch on occasional leaves of two varieties. I'm prepared to...

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Last post by Granny
Sat Jun 30, 2007 1:30 pm
Killing lilies

Last post by Johnboy
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by JohnN » Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:02 pm

Can anyone advise me on a lily problem, please? Lilies have completely choked the 3 acre lake at the bottom of my garden, to the extent that I can no...

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Last post by Johnboy
Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:55 am
Leaf curl

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by RoRo » Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:19 pm

Early this year my early potatoes developed leaf curl, which then spread to my maincrop. A few are OK and some are now recovering but I have noticed...

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Last post by Cider Boys
Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:29 pm
How to deal with rabbits on our allotment?

Last post by Colin_M
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by Colin_M » Fri May 25, 2007 4:39 am

I did a quick search and looking at this, I think you'll tell me that fencing is the only answer:

However I don't know how long it will take...

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Last post by Colin_M
Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:55 pm
mouldy onions

Last post by Belinda
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by Granny » Fri Jun 01, 2007 11:11 am

Sounds like a gardener's expletive!

Some of my overwintered onions have started keeling over and on examination their roots have gone brown and...

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Last post by Belinda
Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:25 pm
strawberry problems

Last post by Johnboy
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by vivienz » Sun Jun 10, 2007 10:56 pm

I knew my luck with the ciflorette strawbs was too good for some bad stuff not to come my way! My english variety strawbs (labels long since lost...

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Last post by Johnboy
Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:26 am
Is permethrin permitted?

Last post by Jenny Green
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by Monika » Sun Jun 17, 2007 10:29 pm

Most of our brassicas seem to be affected by brassica whitefly or brassica mealy bug, they certainly don't look at all happy. Is it permitted to use...

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Last post by Jenny Green
Mon Jun 18, 2007 7:47 pm
Early blight in potatoes

Last post by strawberry tart
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by 456cat » Sat Jun 09, 2007 5:18 pm

Hi all

I've just noticed that the lower leaves on my potatoes have gone yellow and have brown patches on them. I suspect it's early blight but...

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Last post by strawberry tart
Sat Jun 16, 2007 10:03 pm
Grey squirrels

Last post by KMARKSnr
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by Monika » Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:45 pm

We seem to be having a sudden influx of grey squirrels or 'tree rats', presumably young families. I am the warden of our village nature reserve and...

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Last post by KMARKSnr
Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:38 am
pesticides

Last post by Bren
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by david71 » Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:01 pm

does anyone know the brand name of a product containing pirimiphos-ethyl ?

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Last post by Bren
Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:08 pm
runner beans

Last post by david71
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by david71 » Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:07 am

my beans have been attacked by the bean seed fly. they get started after transplanting, then the grub burrows into the stem, just below the tip which...

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Last post by david71
Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:37 am
Virus

Last post by fen not fen
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by neilp6777 » Fri Jun 08, 2007 11:56 am

Hi,

My pot plants have all apparently been infected with a virus. They have pale mottled patches on most of their leaves. I put a couple of plants...

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Last post by fen not fen
Fri Jun 15, 2007 5:43 am
Potato Troubles

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by newveggiegrower » Fri Jun 01, 2007 11:19 am

Hello, I'm new (to the forum and growing things)

I'm trying to grow new potatoes - all was going well with very healthy looking green growth. Then...

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Last post by newveggiegrower
Mon Jun 04, 2007 11:54 am
Friend of Foe?

Last post by Granny
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by RAREBREDCHICK » Sat Jun 02, 2007 2:17 pm

I have just found several small brown things some the size of mouse poo & some larger, reddish brown in colour, scaley looking in my seed...

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Last post by Granny
Mon Jun 04, 2007 8:23 am
cherry and black fly?

Last post by Losos
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by Malk » Wed May 16, 2007 8:32 am

One of my Stella cherry trees has got what looks like black aphids all over the new shoots. Is this black fly?

I've cut off all the badly infected...

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Last post by Losos
Sun Jun 03, 2007 9:24 am
brown patches on tomato leaves! help!

Last post by Tigger
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by bigpepperplant » Wed May 30, 2007 8:57 pm

My outside tomatoes – Gardener's Delight and Sungold – have suddenly developed brown papery patches on the leaves – as though the cellulose is being...

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Last post by Tigger
Thu May 31, 2007 11:23 pm
Cucumber Mosaic Virus

Last post by Colin Miles
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by Colin Miles » Fri May 25, 2007 4:16 pm

My Orange Dawn Winter Squash, which I planted out a couple of weeks ago, seem to have succumbed to Cucumber Mosaic Virus. Can anyone recommend a...

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Last post by Colin Miles
Wed May 30, 2007 4:34 pm
Wilting Greenhouse Tomatoes

Last post by 456cat
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by 456cat » Tue May 29, 2007 11:17 am

Hi

This is the first year I have grown greenhouse tomatoes and am concerned as the growing tips are very floppy. I have 3 different varieties, 2...

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Last post by 456cat
Wed May 30, 2007 11:30 am
Grass clippings as a mulch

Last post by WigBag
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by rsaville » Tue May 29, 2007 3:49 pm

Can anyone advise whether there's a proble using grass clippings as a mulch? It'll be mainly aroudn fruit bushes.

thanks

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Last post by WigBag
Tue May 29, 2007 10:19 pm
Onion Fly

Last post by retropants
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by Bren » Thu May 24, 2007 7:04 pm

Anyone out there having trouble with the onion fly this early in the season, quiet a few on the allotment here in the West Midlands have this problem...

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Last post by retropants
Tue May 29, 2007 9:43 am
Wilting French beans

Last post by oldherbaceous
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by Monika » Sat May 26, 2007 8:06 pm

Some of our French beans, still in roottrainers, are developing wilted leaves though the stem and the new leaves emerging seem ok. The leaves look as...

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Last post by oldherbaceous
Mon May 28, 2007 9:01 am
Really bad blackfly attack

Last post by WigBag
Replies: 5
by GIULIA » Fri May 18, 2007 11:22 pm

In the last 52 hours or so we've had a terrible outbreak of blackfly.. my broadbeans have gone from clean to completely smothered top to toe in the...

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Last post by WigBag
Sat May 26, 2007 10:21 pm
passionfruit deficiency?

Last post by bigpepperplant

by bigpepperplant » Fri May 25, 2007 2:20 pm

Hi, I recently planted a passiflora edulis and have noticed that, though it's growing fairly happily, the leaves are going a bit yellow. My instinct...

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Last post by bigpepperplant
Fri May 25, 2007 2:20 pm
earwigs

Last post by arthur e
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by arthur e » Thu May 24, 2007 2:05 pm

Going into my polytunnel late one night to try to find what was turning a lot of young plants into lace doilies I discovered it was Earwigs. Can...

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Last post by arthur e
Fri May 25, 2007 10:25 am
what's eating my pak choi?

Last post by Bal
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by always_mowing » Sun May 20, 2007 7:39 pm

We are growing pak choi and they were all growing well but now they are all eaten. We don't know what's eating them but the leaves look all chopped....

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Last post by Bal
Fri May 25, 2007 8:42 am
Potato haulms being cut through

Last post by Tigger
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by guypettigrew » Sun May 20, 2007 7:42 pm

Hello all

The haulms on my Arran Pilot potatoes are being cut through by something.

At first I thought the cats were snapping them off, but...

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Last post by Tigger
Thu May 24, 2007 9:27 pm
Tomato moth?

Last post by David
Replies: 2
by David » Thu May 24, 2007 11:49 am

Hi all

Last year I had teerribble trouble with this little beastie's caterpillars. They had really got a community going before i even knew such a...

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Last post by David
Thu May 24, 2007 3:55 pm
Bullace suckers

Last post by Mole
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by Geoff » Tue May 22, 2007 10:25 pm

I have a bank with some old bullace trees in it. In the Autumn I had a serious clear out underneath them cutting out all the lower stuff to let in...

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Last post by Mole
Wed May 23, 2007 8:04 pm
Redcurrant woes

Last post by Weed
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by retropants » Mon May 14, 2007 3:23 pm

My redcurrant bushes seem to have some sort of leaf disease or pest. There are large reddish brown blisters, or deformations on some of the leaves....

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Last post by Weed
Wed May 23, 2007 7:52 am
Another 'What's eaten my....?'

Last post by Primrose
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by Granny » Mon May 21, 2007 8:28 am

This time it's French beans and sprouts. My husband made me a cage of chicken wire in a wooden frame which I put sprouts - about 5 ins tall, French...

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Last post by Primrose
Tue May 22, 2007 8:06 pm
french beans

Last post by david71
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by david71 » Sun May 20, 2007 8:51 pm

help please. my french beans have begun to die off after a good start. the stems have gone brown and the leaves have died. any ideas?

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Last post by david71
Tue May 22, 2007 8:35 am
Wood Lice

Last post by madasafish
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by Geoff » Sun Jul 23, 2006 10:29 pm

What do you know about Wood Lice?
I always thought they were harmless to living plants and were only interested in the decaying but recently I have...

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Last post by madasafish
Mon May 21, 2007 3:20 pm
Maggots in seedling pots

Last post by Chantal
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by Primrose » Fri May 18, 2007 10:35 am

Just returned home from a 4 day absence to find the compost in several pots of climbing beans seething with white maggots. Help please! What caused...

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Last post by Chantal
Sat May 19, 2007 7:45 am
cabbage root fly

Last post by david71
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by david71 » Thu May 17, 2007 11:19 pm

any advice please on controling cabbage root fly

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Last post by david71
Fri May 18, 2007 12:47 pm
Root nasties.

Last post by Belinda
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by Iain » Thu May 17, 2007 11:39 pm

Last time I grew veg.-back when the world was young- there seemed to be umpteen things you could mix with your soil to ensure the demise of such as...

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Last post by Belinda
Fri May 18, 2007 10:00 am
Yellow Dwarf French Beans

Last post by lizzie
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by lizzie » Mon May 14, 2007 4:05 pm

Afternoon peeps

Can someone please tell me why my Purple Queen Dwarf French Beans are turning yellow. Just the leaves are yellow with it gradually...

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Last post by lizzie
Tue May 15, 2007 11:48 am
Slugs and egg shells

Last post by sue-the-recycler
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by melliff » Thu May 10, 2007 9:08 am

I can report that egg shells do not ward off slugs.

In an effort to grow some carrots this year, I surrounded the row of newly germinated carrots...

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Last post by sue-the-recycler
Mon May 14, 2007 8:38 pm
Why are my figs dropping off?

Last post by Jenny Green
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by Glenda » Thu May 10, 2007 5:59 pm

Hi everyone,

I would appriciate some advice on a problem with my fig trees.

They are about 4 foot high and wide and live in half barrels...

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Last post by Jenny Green
Fri May 11, 2007 11:37 am
club root

Last post by GIULIA
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by david71 » Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:45 am
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can anyone advise me on successful control of clubroot, thanks
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Last post by GIULIA
Fri May 11, 2007 12:23 am
Pea Moth

Last post by GIULIA
Replies: 5
by IanL. » Fri Apr 27, 2007 11:58 am

every season I lose about 80% of my pea crop to the attentions of the grubs of the pea moth which eat the peas in situ.I have read that I should...

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Last post by GIULIA
Fri May 11, 2007 12:19 am
broad beans

Last post by david71
Replies: 5
by david71 » Tue May 08, 2007 11:08 pm

i have planted my broad beans out after sowing them in 3in pots. something nasty has cut them off at ground level leaving the top on the surface. any...

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Last post by david71
Thu May 10, 2007 10:19 pm
ants

Last post by Primrose
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by always_mowing » Tue May 01, 2007 3:15 pm

hi, we have a lot of ants crawling around our vegetable seedlings... could anyone tell us how to get rid of them without using any chemical please?...

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Last post by Primrose
Thu May 10, 2007 1:46 pm
Red/Brown bugs on Toms

Last post by WestHamRon
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by WestHamRon » Tue May 08, 2007 6:06 pm

We have noticed these on some of our tomatoes (only Legend it seems). They are smaller than greenfly and can easily be mistaken for splashes of mud....

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Last post by WestHamRon
Wed May 09, 2007 6:06 pm
What's got at my potatoes?

Last post by Tigger
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by Granny » Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:04 am

Something has pulled 2 potatoes right out of the ground by their shoots and started eating the potato itself. a) is this likely to have been a rat,...

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Last post by Tigger
Tue May 08, 2007 4:59 pm
Caterpilars on goosberrys

Last post by alan refail
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by Brenjon » Fri May 04, 2007 11:02 pm

The leaves on my one and only goosberry bush have been devoured by small green caterpillars. Hopefully the berrys are still remaining. Is this a...

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Last post by alan refail
Sat May 05, 2007 9:25 am
slugs

Last post by fen not fen
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by dispic1 » Mon Apr 30, 2007 1:34 pm

and age old question, but how do i get rid of slugs?????

any suggestions are welcome.

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Last post by fen not fen
Sat May 05, 2007 8:33 am
SNAILS IN GREENHOUSE

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by Compo » Tue Apr 24, 2007 10:35 pm

Snails are eating my seedlings, even marigolds and petunias in the greenhouse, any non chemical solutions. Although....I did think of putting slug...

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Last post by fen not fen
Sat May 05, 2007 8:30 am

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