In fact, here's a picture I took last year of a butterfly laying eggs through a general vegetable net:
Announcement
Collapse
No announcement yet.
your worst three pests
Collapse
X
-
Vine weevil, arrrrrrrrghhhhhh, not had much of a problem with veg, but they love fuchsias, heuchera and auricula, especially if pot grown.
Trouble is sometimes you don't know they're until the plant is rootless.
Oh, and slugs and snails.
Comment
-
Cabbage caterpillars - I've micromeshed the brassicas this year
White fly - ditto
My big feet - I have such a small growing space and want to grow so much that I leave only tiny "foot spaces", then sometimes teeter over and plant a size 7 on a precious veg plant.Location - Leicestershire - Chisit-land
Endless wonder.
Comment
-
aphids, slugs and ants. The first two are munching through everything (although the slugs are sneakier) and the ants don't eat so much but are just EVERYWHERE. It would be lovely to dig a hole or empty out a pot or sit and admire my garden without having ants crawling all over my legs!
Comment
-
1. Vine Weevils (they killed a whole trough of 2nd year strawberry plants this year, along with numerous other flower and fern plants I had in pots waiting to go into new beds)
2. Slugs and snails (although not so much this year, I'm guessing the dry weather is keeping them under cover a lot more, plus the birds not getting a good supply of worms with the hard soil are eating more slugs and snails instead?)
3. Sparrows (they are like a flash mob. They dive into the garden in groups of 5 or 6, sit on my cane structures and shred all the garden twine holding them together, then jump into my mangetout and pea plants and rip a load of leaves off, then fly off with a beak full of greenery. I still like them though. They are funny to watch.)Last edited by Jo Sara; 19-06-2011, 05:22 PM.Spatially-Challenged Gardening
Comment
Latest Topics
Collapse
Recent Blog Posts
Collapse
Comment