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Top 10 garden pests

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  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    On that list of pests I only have vine weevils, slugs and snails and aphids.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Slugs and snails and a bit of rose black spot.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Only weevils and slugs/snails for me

    I don't grow much that gets aphid attacks, and the birds get them anyway,  and the viburnum has only been in a few years, so finger crossed for that.
    No alders, fuchsias, box, or fruit trees, so fine there. 
    Red spider mites are never too plentiful here, and my little greenhouse is always well ventilated, so fingers crossed for that too.

    I'm surprised leather jackets aren't on there though.
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Slugs and snails. So far - fingers crossed - I've missed out on vine weevils. We do have an alder wood nearby but none in the garden. And we do have aphids and white fly of various types but not the specific ones on that list, that I'm aware of.

    My main pests are all much bigger. Rats, mice, voles, moles, squirrels, pigeons, pheasants, rabbits, deer.....
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited March 2020
    Biggest pest here? - OH when he goes off half-cocked without consulting the head gardener!
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    White fly, and slugs. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Plant itPlant it Posts: 155
    We've got a pest on our allotment a right no all if you've got a black cat he'll have one blacker!!
  • edhelkaedhelka Posts: 2,351
    I only have slugs, snails and aphids. From what isn't on the list: cabbage white caterpillars if I try to grow any brassicas and some whiteflies in the greenhouse. No weevils.
    On the other hand, I must get nearly all fungal diseases that are there (4 on roses, some on fruit trees, early and late blight on tomatoes and of course powdery mildew).
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    top pests in my garden are the feckin' neighbours' cats
    Devon.
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