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  • #46
    In fact, here's a picture I took last year of a butterfly laying eggs through a general vegetable net:

    Last edited by Lotsaveg; 27-03-2011, 11:17 AM.

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    • #47
      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.
      Last edited by tizzycat; 17-06-2011, 12:55 PM. Reason: addition

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      • #48
        Slugs/snails, cats, aphids

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        • #49
          Slugs, snails, cabbage white butterflies (I could go on and on, but we were only asked for 3)

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          • #50
            Magpies (strawberries), Cabbage Root Fly, Whitefly

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            • #51
              Originally posted by Florence Fennel View Post
              Slugs, slugs, slugs!


              Flo, we;re so-o-o-o in tune!
              When the Devil gives you Cowpats - make Satanic Compost!

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              • #52
                Gooseberry sawfly, cats, aphids.
                Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
                By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
                While better men than we go out and start their working lives
                At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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                • #53
                  Snails, snails and more snails... besides those, rosemary beetle and new for this year, gooseberry sawfly.

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                  • #54
                    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.

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                    • #55
                      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!

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                      • #56
                        Rats, pigeons and l'escargot snails!
                        My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                        to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

                        Diversify & prosper


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                        • #57
                          Rabbits which do tremendous damage if they get in, slugs and snails, and raspberry beetle. I don't mind pigeons and caterpillars so much as they can be netted against although they also have potential for great damage.
                          Last edited by Aberdeenplotter; 18-06-2011, 08:16 AM. Reason: added second sentence

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                          • #58
                            Slugs, snails and vine weevils (a thriving colony beneath neighbour's laurel hedge). We can net against almost everything else.

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                            • #59
                              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

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