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Post by esther on Mar 12, 2011 5:44:49 GMT
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Post by grindle on Mar 12, 2011 6:13:36 GMT
is that in your garden Esther  |
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Post by peony on Mar 12, 2011 10:13:14 GMT
Barry has been digging out all the bindweed from the soil around the Blackcurrant bushes and he found loads and loads of Vine Weevil grubs   He also noticed loads of clusters of Ladybirds around the allootment ;D I dug out a sedum yesterday, it looked OK on the surface, but the root was almost non-existant and the soil full of Vine Weevil grubs |
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Post by Cherry on Mar 12, 2011 11:51:59 GMT
That is terrible news Esther and Peony. I don't trust the birds to eat the ones tipped from pots, so mine go for a very long walk into the middle of blackberries. I would hate to see them in the garden as it is upsetting enough in the pots.
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Post by peony on Mar 12, 2011 14:21:37 GMT
That is terrible news Esther and Peony. I don't trust the birds to eat the ones tipped from pots, so mine go for a very long walk into the middle of blackberries. I would hate to see them in the garden as it is upsetting enough in the pots. You are right Cherry, I've put them on the bird table on a previous occasion and the birds ignored them  This time I shook all the soil off the sedum onto black plastic and then trawled through it and took out all the grubs, it took a while, but worth it. The grubs were squished ;D |
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Post by esther on Mar 12, 2011 14:32:21 GMT
is that in your garden Esther Luckily(?) the Blackcurrants are on the allotment Grindle  |
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Post by Cherry on Mar 12, 2011 14:59:17 GMT
That is terrible news Esther and Peony. I don't trust the birds to eat the ones tipped from pots, so mine go for a very long walk into the middle of blackberries. I would hate to see them in the garden as it is upsetting enough in the pots. You are right Cherry, I've put them on the bird table on a previous occasion and the birds ignored them This time I shook all the soil off the sedum onto black plastic and then trawled through it and took out all the grubs, it took a while, but worth it. The grubs were squished ;D The local radio gardening programme had vine weevil as the first question today. The lady did not know that the whole pot has to be tipped in the bin, or a long way off in a field, or some would colonize the garden. It seems the fly lays lots of eggs and we just don't catch them all, only the ones which have already hatched into grubs. I hope you are not recycling your pot of soil on the garden Peony. |
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Post by grindle on Mar 12, 2011 17:58:53 GMT
is that in your garden Esther Luckily(?) the Blackcurrants are on the allotment Grindle that's a relief in as much as it's not your garden, but not nice on the allotment either  |
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Post by peony on Mar 12, 2011 19:48:43 GMT
You are right Cherry, I've put them on the bird table on a previous occasion and the birds ignored them This time I shook all the soil off the sedum onto black plastic and then trawled through it and took out all the grubs, it took a while, but worth it. The grubs were squished ;D The local radio gardening programme had vine weevil as the first question today. The lady did not know that the whole pot has to be tipped in the bin, or a long way off in a field, or some would colonize the garden. It seems the fly lays lots of eggs and we just don't catch them all, only the ones which have already hatched into grubs. I hope you are not recycling your pot of soil on the garden Peony. The sedum wasn't in a pot Cherry, it was in the garden soil in the border, so the vine weevil must have been on the plant roots when I bought it. I've sealed the soil off the roots in an old compost bag which I'll take to the Council tip next time I go. When it gets a bit warmer I'll water the area in the border with Provado before I plant anything. |
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Post by Rosie on Mar 14, 2011 12:38:12 GMT
I was chucking some old compost onto where the rasps are going, luckily i decided to search all the compost first as some pots had loads of vine weevil grubs in it. I put them on a tray with steep sides so they couldn't wriggle away and watched a robin scoff the lot!!  |
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This time I shook all the soil off the sedum onto black plastic and then trawled through it and took out all the grubs, it took a while, but worth it. The grubs were squished ;D
