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While digging and clearing plot for planting ,have found alot of wire worms in soil any advice on how to kill these little blighters,would be much appreciated.
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KK With a sharp thumb nail, from what I have read lots of cultivation of the ground they dont like being disturbed or there are methods like burying bags of bran which after a time you dig up and burn, growing wheat which you do the same, or there is a plant that attracts them, the wire worm enters the plant and the plant dies as the plant dies you dig this up and dispose taking the wire worm with it. -
What is a wire worm ? Sorry to be ignorant.Gardening ..... begins with daybreak
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ntg
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always wondered what they were have seen them in garden and lottie and left them alone not anymore tho thanks thats two bugs i found today that i can do without.Gardening ..... begins with daybreak
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PW any other ways you know of please send me thanks kkComment
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I just have a flat piece of board next to me whenever I'm turning the soil over. Any nasty beasties which come to light get put on the board, which I then put on top of the wheel barrow when I go & the birds have a feast! This includes wire worms, slugs, slug eggs, vine weevil grubs, chafer grubs etc. Seems to work, haven't had much trouble with any bugs except snails! *Touching wood*
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Thanks for the advice will try this. I want to encourage more birds on to allotment and this seems to be an ideal way .
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Reply to Heated mat for Tom's and chilliesI use a mix of six scoops of compost three scoops of sand/grit and two scoops of perlite,the quantity is unimportant as long as the ratio is the same, if for seeds I use this mix, if I am potting on I add some blood, fish and bone, along with a small quantity of chicken manure pellets
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