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Post by peony on Feb 19, 2011 20:44:36 GMT
In the March edition of the RHS The Garden they give a list of their members top 10 pests -
1 Viburnum Beetle
2 Slugs and snails
3 Cushion scale
4 Chafer grubs
5 Harlequin ladybird
6 Vine weevil
7 Lily beetle
8 Horse chestnut scale
9 Greenhouse red spider mite
10 Ants
I've had problems with viburnum beetle, vine weevil, lily beetle and slugs and snails, but not any of the others mentioned. What pests cause you the most problems?
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Post by Cherry on Feb 19, 2011 21:38:51 GMT
How can viburnum beetle be top of the list? I have not even heard of it.
Slugs and snails annoy me, but I hate lily beetle and last year did not suffer from the dreaded vine weevil, but I have had it in the past.
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Post by bists on Feb 19, 2011 22:22:08 GMT
Greenhouse red spider mite is rubbish  The glasshouses alwas get it, but the biological control is brilliant and very fast acting  I can cope with most pest but rabbits are terrible...so inconsistent with what they will destroy each year...so you can never plant anything and think that it will be safe......boo hiss |
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Post by wildlifefriendly on Feb 19, 2011 22:39:48 GMT
Try deer then, they give you no warning, shrub one day, sticks the next, that's after years of not touching a particular shrub. Sites that suggest deer friendly plants haven't had a chat with my deer yet.
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Post by grindle on Feb 20, 2011 5:28:37 GMT
slugs and snails are my no. 1, and the dear old badgers, although they seem to have left my garden alone recently.
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Post by Cherry on Feb 20, 2011 7:46:30 GMT
Grindle, that was only after you put up a Dylan-proof fence though wasn't it?
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Post by Tel on Feb 20, 2011 7:53:12 GMT
Earwigs, caterpillars, slugs and snails.
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Post by grindle on Feb 20, 2011 8:13:26 GMT
Grindle, that was only after you put up a Dylan-proof fence though wasn't it? I think they stopped coming before that Cherry, at least I couldn't see any signs of them, and I don't think the fence would have stopped them as it's only chicken wire |
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Post by Lou78W on Feb 20, 2011 12:23:01 GMT
earwigs, earwigs and earwigs, followed by caterpillars  |
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Post by steve on Feb 20, 2011 13:51:41 GMT
Slugs, Snails, Red spider, and Sootycat  |
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Post by floydie on Feb 20, 2011 14:47:47 GMT
Big black dog,s (or mine in particular) she seems to enjoy standing on my plants and snapping them into bit or turning them to mush . Oh and cats  digging and sending soil and plants flying. |
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Post by sweetpea on Feb 20, 2011 16:27:34 GMT
I don't really get any pests, just problems to be worked round.
I suppose the most problematic as far as some plants are concerned is the cabbage white butterfly.
My main pest is a weed ......hairy bittercress but I don't suppose that counts.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 20, 2011 19:45:40 GMT
When I first set out the bedding...my cat.
Snails (mostly the tiny ones that you miss when you go around with a bucket), flea beetle, beetroot leaf miner (every year, without fail), carrot fly, RSM in the GH.....
I put up with stuff...hosing off aphids, keeping the GH as clean as possible, well aired and watered in the summer, and by moving crops about. Last year was the first time we'd had carrot fly and I'm a bit nervous about them this year. Plan to grow my carrots mostly in hugh sided containers. I hate slugs and water in nemaslug from mid April through to the back end of the growing season...works a treat.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 20, 2011 19:46:28 GMT
When I first set out the bedding...my cat.
Snails (mostly the tiny ones that you miss when you go around with a bucket), flea beetle, beetroot leaf miner (every year, without fail), carrot fly, RSM in the GH.....
I put up with stuff...hosing off aphids, keeping the GH as clean as possible, well aired and watered in the summer, and by moving crops about. Last year was the first time we'd had carrot fly and I'm a bit nervous about them this year. Plan to grow my carrots mostly in high sided containers. I hate slugs and water in nemaslug from mid April through to the back end of the growing season...works a treat.
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Post by peony on Feb 21, 2011 11:14:27 GMT
How can viburnum beetle be top of the list? I have not even heard of it. Slugs and snails annoy me, but I hate lily beetle and last year did not suffer from the dreaded vine weevil, but I have had it in the past. I hope it never gets to Norfolk Cherry, it completely spoils Viburnum tinus, all the leaves get tiny holes in them and then turn brown. I dug mine up got rid of it. It arrived in my garden 2 years ago, so far it hasn't affected my other Viburnum (type unknown as it was already in the garden) which has balls of white scented flowers early in the year (?opulus ). According to the RHS these beetles are mainly in the south of England but they are spreading  |
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The glasshouses alwas get it, but the biological control is brilliant and very fast acting 
digging and sending soil and plants flying.
