Slugs and snails have been known to slime their way up to the flower buds and have a chomp - you can get stuff from the garden centre that is made of pellets of sheeps wool - I spread it over the top of the pot and then when you water it the pellets make a surface that the slugs and snails don't like.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Saw and caught my first lily beetle here in Kent yesterday, but have been dealing with my mole problem and didn't spot it until it was too late. My Siberian lily looks like it's had it - even the top where the buds would have been have been eaten. Didn't see any eggs though.
Thanks for your replies. I didn't have any slugs etc, Caught 5 beetles so far and squashed them. Don't really want to use any sprays on my plants as my granddaughter is always touching them, looking for ladybirds...What do I do with the grubs under the leaves? Any "natural" sprays recommended or do I just keep squashing them?
I use a big of kitchen roll to wipe 'up' the plants, thus getting the undersides of the leaves - nasty gungy grubs - but I've found very few grubs so far this year thanks to being at home more since retirement and getting the beetles 'in the act'
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Found loads of beetles yesterday on lillies planted on the allotment a few weeks ago. Really don't know where they have come from, I bought new bulbs as I didn't want to bring beetles onto the allotment from my garden. Used new compost in bottomless pots sunk in the ground. No one else seems to grow them nearby either......
What with slugs and snail's absailing over the fence, carrot fly smelling carrots from 2 mile aways and pigeons swooping over head, marestail growing whilst you look at it and now flying lilly beetles...it's like a batttle zone out there......think this might be a battle I'll lose, I don't like squashing beetles...
Think I'll stick to growing lillies at home next year...
Zoomer 44, if you want to grow lilies even at home you'll have to turn into a killer I take delight in making red patterns on my patio, that or no lilies.
Fleece your carrots and fly can't get them. I plant late and grow in buckets, don't have an allotment only small veg patch.
Don't get me going about pigeons, fat greedy devils have had a go at my runners Slugs & snails I also stab & squash.
Thankfully I don't have the other & won't mention it, not tempting fate
One battle at a time helps win the war, I wish you well. KEF
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Hi Hennypennys garden
Slugs and snails have been known to slime their way up to the flower buds and have a chomp - you can get stuff from the garden centre that is made of pellets of sheeps wool - I spread it over the top of the pot and then when you water it the pellets make a surface that the slugs and snails don't like.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Found my first one on an alchemilla mollis last week (Bath, Somerset) nowhere near my lilies but am now paranoid!
Thanks for your replies. I didn't have any slugs etc, Caught 5 beetles so far and squashed them. Don't really want to use any sprays on my plants as my granddaughter is always touching them, looking for ladybirds...What do I do with the grubs under the leaves? Any "natural" sprays recommended or do I just keep squashing them?
I use a big of kitchen roll to wipe 'up' the plants, thus getting the undersides of the leaves - nasty gungy grubs - but I've found very few grubs so far this year thanks to being at home more since retirement and getting the beetles 'in the act'
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have not seen any beetles for the last three days on any of my lilies fingers crossed no more for a while yippppeeeeeeeee.
Found loads of beetles yesterday on lillies planted on the allotment a few weeks ago. Really don't know where they have come from, I bought new bulbs as I didn't want to bring beetles onto the allotment from my garden. Used new compost in bottomless pots sunk in the ground. No one else seems to grow them nearby either...
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Hi Zoomer, they're not particularly good at it, but like most beetles they can fly..
Hi, Bob,
What with slugs and snail's absailing over the fence, carrot fly smelling carrots from 2 mile aways and pigeons swooping over head, marestail growing whilst you look at it and now flying lilly beetles...it's like a batttle zone out there...
...think this might be a battle I'll lose, I don't like squashing beetles...
Think I'll stick to growing lillies at home next year...
Zoomer 44, if you want to grow lilies even at home you'll have to turn into a killer
I take delight in making red patterns on my patio, that or no lilies.
Fleece your carrots and fly can't get them. I plant late and grow in buckets, don't have an allotment only small veg patch.
Don't get me going about pigeons, fat greedy devils have had a go at my runners
Slugs & snails I also stab & squash.
Thankfully I don't have the other & won't mention it, not tempting fate
One battle at a time helps win the war, I wish you well. KEF