sweet pea with whitefly - organic garden

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  July 2019

  Catherine - when you say 'ready planted' what size of container are they in, and how many plants? Sweet peas need lots of room, and lots of food and water to do well. If they're  just in little pots or trays, they'll need potted into something bigger 

  It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
  
  
  
  I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...

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• cornelly Posts: 970

  July 2019

  We feed the birds from a few seed feeders perhaps that is why we don't much of a problem with aphids etc.

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• catherine172 Posts: 67

  July 2019

  have a feeling my cat has munched up local wildlife, though she is getting old and not hunting any more...

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• catherine172 Posts: 67

  August 2019

  yay see a sweet pea flowerette coming through; even occasional birds munching the fat balls - thanks, all!

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  August 2019

  😊 

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• catherine172 Posts: 67

  May 2020

  this was great advice, but now I see a grey squirrel cleverly made it to the railing, and I'm not convinced this is a good thing - a magpie came as well at one point - when I had a cylinder of suet stuff hanging down. 
  Not sure what to do...
  Have added a water bowl for birds to drink from, and just ordered a bath to hang for the birds to bathe.  
  I loved having robins visiting, but they seem to have eased off now the cylinder food has run out as opposed to the suet balls.
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  squirrel seems to have run over some of the plants in at least one of my containers, and doesn't seem great hygienically since I want to grow herbs etc on this balcony at times.
  
  further advice welcome!

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