So far...this , for me, is the year of the......

[Nicos]

Slugs.

I'm getting really fed up with the over wintered pot plants looking like they have been through a shredder.
I keep looking out for the darned things but I think it's the teeny ones hiding in the soil.

what pests are you having problems with at the moment?

[Cadalot]

Snap - Slugs

[Tripmeup]

Have just posted on the Chatback regarding the buggers decimating some Pak Choi..Have a funny feeling this is going to be a bad year for slugs (or a good one if you are a slug maybe )

[craftymarie]

I thought slugs were my biggest problem chomping away on my poor runner beans but this morning I check the garden and the special fabric (weed suppressant stuff) over one of my raised beds has been ripped to shreds

Hubby reckons it has been ripped by a bird desperately looking for worms but the holes are huge like dinner plate size. So now I'm worried there's a monster lurking in the garden

[Nicos]

Would a fox do that?
I have foxes and badgers but so far nothing has tried to shred it's way through fleece.

* I've just tempted fate haven't I?

[Guest]

Ants and aphids. Annoyingly I found loads of overwintering ladybugs but they seem to have disappeared since the aphids started appearing

[dilettante]

Slugs I guess. Allium leaf miner. Slow germination.

[Bren In Pots]

Mines slugs as well its got that bad that I count my lettuce each morning.

[craftymarie]

Would a fox do that?
I have foxes and badgers but so far nothing has tried to shred it's way through fleece.

It is possible. We live in a town but there are occasional foxes around. Although can't work out why a fox would go to trouble of shredding fabric to get to bare earth when we have plenty of bare earth elsewhere in garden. It might remain a mystery unless I catch something in the act

As for the overwintering ladybirds, NG, ditto. We had loads of them and now when we need them and the roses are covered in aphids every day, they are nowhere to be seen!

[Containergardener]

Aphids on roses but have always had problem with slugs n snails, so many fields and damp here. One yr they were just all over the grass slithering from the field , hundreds
Slugs il snip or stamp on ...snails I'm going to resort to Olive dogs ball thrower device

[Jay22]

So far only aphids but I'm sure the slugs and snails are lurking somewhere just waiting to pounce!

[PyreneesPlot]

White fly on the newly planted cabbages - my fault I guess as I didn't clear last year's brassicas very early, preferring to let them flower for the bees. It is a balance - feed the bees but allow the pests a chance to get a big population.
And voles - they are really bad this year even though the cat seems to catch and eat a few each day! They had about a quarter of my leeks, all the tulips

[Nicos]

By the way....

I'm liking your posts in sympathy...not in glee that I'm not the only one suffering!!

[muddled]

Lottie Site Rep...worst pest of all at the minute
Horrible little man

[craftymarie]

Lottie Site Rep...worst pest of all at the minute
Horrible little man

Oh dear I think I'd find that one the hardest to deal with. Not one of these jobsworthy types is he. Give some people a teeny bit of "authority" and they go completely mad with it.