What do you hate?

[Sara]

Now the growing year is drawing to a close, Grow Your Own is looking for the very worst pests of 2011. Do you stay awake at night fuming over slugs or have rabbits eaten the bark on your prized fruit trees? We want to know which insects or animals have been plaguing you over the last few months.


Your comments may be edited and published within Grow Your Own magazine.

[veggiechicken]

Without a doubt its caterpillars on the brassicas.

[taff]

Aphids on the runner beans. It was very difficult to sit back and watch them eat my newer plants, waiting for the ladybird larvae to show up ,which they eventually did, and made very short work of the infestation.

[Munch]

Asparagus Beetle, depressing, such a short harvesting time and the little blighter chomps on it before you do!

[HeatherL]

We were enjoying our first ever crop of cucumbers until an infestation of Glasshouse spider mites did for them

[alex-adam]

Well, its got to be the slimy chappies ! - Slugs and Snails

[rustylady]

Snails - they are much worse than slugs!!

[Snadger]

Rats and carrot flies!

[Thelma Sanders]

It has been the foxes again, I'm sorry to say! so I've voted other. They've trashed the debris netting and keep digging holes, so each time I go there at the mo I'm having to replant the onion sets
The old boys say it's cos of using chicken pellets ...they make chicken wire cages to protect their crops

[Bren In Pots]

Cats, if I leave as much as 6 inch square piece of soil bare or uncovered with netting it gets used as a litter tray.

[binley100]

Whitefly........clouds and clouds of them. Everytime you go under the netting on the brassicas you could do with one of those dust masks on .

[hawthorns]

leek moth the devils pest

[solway cropper]

Thankfully I get very little trouble from the usual pests like slugs and aphids but carrot fly is the bane of my life.

[Newton]

The only pest I have encountered that is actually of some use......slugs and snails.........but only of some use in a witches cauldron when producing little boys.....along with the puppy dogs tails.......

I hate slugs......with a wizardy passion.

[JamesM]

Earwigs! Everywhere this year, nesting all around the lettuce and really put us off them