A fungal disease like box blight is one thing, but moths/catrpillars have to do it again next year - and we can be ready. Hand-picking, soap, veg oil, chemicals, whatever is your thing.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Too late, I've already cut down all my box balls and half my extensive hedging. Didn't want or need the extra work involved trying to keep the blighters off next year.
I think I read in RHS magazine that they have noted some members of the Corvid family ( magpies, crows etc) have been seen eating the caterpillars. Chris Beardshaw on Beechgrove, cut his box hard back and it's revived.
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A fungal disease like box blight is one thing, but moths/catrpillars have to do it again next year - and we can be ready. Hand-picking, soap, veg oil, chemicals, whatever is your thing.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."