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Pest of the Year- Horticultural ones- what has driven you to distraction?

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  • RubytooRubytoo Posts: 1,630
    @MrsGlaze, in the interests of money saving, and keeping the peace I think you might have guessed :D Is more to do with what they don't do....

    @Posy, you hit the nail on the head . " It's the things you can't control that drive you to despair, isn't it"

    @Allotment Boy sorry I thought cutworms were the little root eating ones and mis read about your Acer.
    I hope you manage to find a way to stop the  horrible things decimating your crops.

  • I feel with you!
    Like you there was the Beast, set things back or killed things off.
    Don't know which for sure, because it was followed by the SHEEP - 3  rams of mine, which became Ovine Olympic jumpers and ate everything off at ground level. I raised the height of loads of fencing, but couldn't do it fast enough to stop a lot of damage.
    The knacker man solved the problem for the worst 2. Not a favoured option, but had to do something before tupping time began for all the neighbours' sheep!
    Then weeks of Drought when even our house spring failed, so I literally had no water to give plants.
    Only my separately fenced veg garden saved me from total despair - it became a refuge for many young plants and my salvias, penstemons and agapanthus,  and the sweetpeas and dahlias were wonderful and saved my sanity.(What there is of it!)
    I am waiting till next spring to find out whether many things have it in them to resprout.
  • Comiserations to all that have suffered losses still next year will be different won't it? Perhaps @Dovefromabove, & @Hostafan1 need to give us all some tips as they say they have not had any problems.
    AB Still learning

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    pansyface said:
    Badgers.
    They climb.
    They dig.
    Their claws can pull metal mesh apart.
    They are immune to electric fences.
    They need a lot of food.
    They produce a lot of foul smelling poop.
    They travel long distances away from home.
    They know they are protected.

    and they kill hedgehogs. grrrr
    Devon.
  • Another "new" to me pest has surfaced. We have a perennial Fuchsia in the front garden it was here when we came- tough as old boots performs every year. Recently in this unusual mild weather the tips of stems & leaves were puckered & twisted plus a strange pinkish colour. Reading the August copy of the Garden I realised it is Fuchsia Gall mite- no cure no treatment cut the whole plant down. Hope the plant comes back next year!
    AB Still learning

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Scale insects and their poo on my orchids. Molluscs, but that goes without saying. Lost swathes of seedlings to them in the spring. And a mouse who crept into the house just to eat my sweet pea seedlings. Not seen before or since.
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