Slugs, Snails, Alder leaf beetle, Green shield bug, Moles, Aphids, Vine weevils, Caterpillar, Lily beetle, Glasshouse red spider mite, Greenhouse whitefly.
Slugs
A well-known garden pest, the nightmare of flowers, they eat anything, leaves, stems, flowers, tubers and bulbs, except for a few aromatic herbs and flowers that they don't like it.
A recent RHS study in a garden-realistic scenario however, found no reduction in slug damage from barriers made of copper tape, bark mulch, eggshells, sharp grit or wool pellets. Well... the myths about cooper and wool are shattered.
I still refuse to believe that they cannot be avoided.
They cannot be eradicated so targeting control measures to protect particularly vulnerable plants.
Keeping the soil as clean as possible can help. Raking over soil and removing fallen leaves during winter can allow birds to eat slug eggs that have been exposed.
Use traps. Proprietary traps are also available from garden centers. also you can used traditional methods like scooped out half orange, grapefruit or melon skins, can be laid cut side down, or jars part-filled with beer and sunk into the soil near vulnerable plants.
Aphids
These sap-sucking little devils form large colonies very quickly and can spread infection too.
They also excrete a sticky honeydew which then turns into black mould.
There are a large variety of species including blackfly, greenfly, woolly aphid.
It is very frustrating to see a rosebud sucked and killed by these insects.
There are many different insecticides available but I'm a big fan of natural predators such as ladybirds or lacewings.
That's why I avoid to use insecticides, I only use them as a last solution and I only spray at night when bees and ladybirds are not on the flowers.
You can squash them, dislodge them with a hose, shake them off onto a sheet. This will help shrink the colonies.
They also excrete a sticky honeydew which then turns into black mould.
There are a large variety of species including blackfly, greenfly, woolly aphid.
It is very frustrating to see a rosebud sucked and killed by these insects.
There are many different insecticides available but I'm a big fan of natural predators such as ladybirds or lacewings.
That's why I avoid to use insecticides, I only use them as a last solution and I only spray at night when bees and ladybirds are not on the flowers.
You can squash them, dislodge them with a hose, shake them off onto a sheet. This will help shrink the colonies.
Caterpillar
Glasshouse red spider mite
Vine weevils
Green shield bug
Lily beetle
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