Various pests and so on.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Reading on the vine of the challenge's faced by others, carrot fly, blight. club root etc etc. I realise I lucky I am.

I get cabbage whites and a few white fly and to be honest thats about it. Then thinking about it I live in the middle of a housing estate and as far as I know there is no one into GYO in the area. I am wondering if this has created some sort of sterile area around me so that some of the pests, diseases just can't get to me.

Look forward to your thoughts.

Colin

[Two_Sheds]

Yes, you're not in a wildlife 'corridor'.

My back garden is fairly free of critters (except lily beetle, sawfly, aphids & slugs).
My lotty has every pest imaginable, because their food source is abundant.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Nice to know I am thinking along the right lines. Here hoping no one round here gets the gardening bug.

I was talking to a friend today and he is pretty much the same has myself. City dweller and very little in the way of pests.

Colin

[Hazel at the Hill]

It's swings and roundabouts, though - I think that I get better pollination at the Hill than at home as there are so many plants to cross with, and every pollinating critter under the sun. I'm thinking about my precious crimson flowered broadies - I used to grow half a dozen in isolation for seed each year here at home, but tbh, the yield I got made it hardly worthwhile. I'm using the last of the seed this year, and will have to buy more for next - much as that pains me!

BUT I wouldn't grow tomatoes at the Hill as blight goes rampaging across the site every year - my bucket grown plants in the courtyard do really well.

Oh - and despite no-one growing anything within 1/4 mile of my house, I still can't grow carrots without bloody carrot fly. Although - in an exercise of hopeless optimism triumphing over certain adversity - I yet again sowed a couple of rows at the Hill last weekend...

[taff]

I think I managed to make my own rod...The first year I grew garlic it was fab, huge big cloves, tasted gorgeous etc. Every year since has been terrible, leek moth or some kind of onion thing attack it, so this year I'm not growing garlic or leeks to see if that makes them go look for food elsewhere...

[Potstubsdustbins]

Fortunately I have no trouble with pollination, plenty of bees etc see to that for me.

Colin

[mrbadexample]

I think I'm with you Colin. Urban garden: cabbage whites, aphids, whitefly, carrot fly, gooseberry sawfly, slugs & snails but not too much else.

Not had blight in at least 4 years (don't exactly know what it is!) I dread the thought of club root or white rot, which would mean I couldn't use the ground I've got - I can't go anywhere else!

I've got some sort of micromoth plaguing my herbs (rosemary, thyme, lavender) though.

So, re-reading that post it seems that I've plenty of pests, but not much in the way of diseases. I'll settle for that.