The orange spots on lower leaf surface of raspberries definitely sound like a rust infection, but I disagree that 'red raspberries are immune' - on a damp, muggy year my red raspberries regularly get rust! Try to improve air circulation, and avoid wetting the foliage when irrigating (ie no sprinklers!!)
Re foxgloves, white foxgloves are the ones which are regarded as difficult to maintain in that they cross-pollinate with pink ones and so the next generation is not a pure white !
Geranium sawfly: Greenish-grey, caterpillar-like larvae with black heads that live on the underside of the leaves where they make rounded holes. Damage occurs during May – September. The damage is usually only cosmetic.
Have been away for four weeks and returned to find my gooseberry bushes totally stripped of leaves. I had attempted to pick off the caterpillars prior to leaving but obviously didn't succeed. Will this affect neaxt years fruit yield?
I have a plum tree Victoria It started off well it flowered and all of a sudden the leaves went limp i have one plum but i think it wont produce any more any help would be great
I have planted shallots in my tiny veg plot and they looked as though they are ready for lifting so I took them up and thought I would lay them out on a sheet in the garage to dry out as we have had so much rain and more to come. Have I done the right thing or should I have left them lying on the garden (I remember my husband doing this but we didnt have so much rain at the time)
i have just turned a plot of lawn in our garden into a vegetable patch we have recently had the lawn fed with fertilizer and weed killer in the form of granules could you tell me whether or not it safe to eat vegetables from a piece of garden which was once a lawn
For the first time ever a large number of my healthy hardy geraniums - various varieties, have been decimated by tiny dark grey caterpillars. The current infestetion is quite dramatic as the leaves are being totaly eaten away just leaving the outer and inner veins. What moth is causing this? And what do I have to spray them with?
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Re foxgloves, white foxgloves are the ones which are regarded as difficult to maintain in that they cross-pollinate with pink ones and so the next generation is not a pure white !
black heads that live on the underside of the leaves where
they make rounded holes. Damage occurs during May –
September. The damage is usually only cosmetic.