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    Did a check of the Gooseberries last night and what did I find, SAWFLY. Look out folks!!
    Last edited by SarzWix; 06-05-2013, 02:57 PM.
    Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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    Roitlet, it's my first time growing them this year. I got some scraggly spindly looking ones off a friend from his allotment. They've started to grow when they looked all but dead, what should I be looking for?
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      Little caterpillars, there are about three generations a season. They usually start on the lower leaves. You need to act quickly or the will eat all the leaves.

      This is the only occasion where I use a systemic insecticide. I've tried all the other greener methods and they don't work. I find that if I can control them one year then the problem does not arise again for another couple of years.
      Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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      • #4
        Can't you net them roielet?

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          Yikes- already????

          will keep my eye out- thanks for the warning
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          • #6
            Originally posted by chris View Post
            Can't you net them roielet?
            I suppose I could but the caterpillars fall to the ground and pupate in the soil round the bushes then hatch into flies and the whole thing starts all over again. I could then possibly be containing the flies and make the matter worse.
            Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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            • #7
              Had absolutely loads of caterpillars last year, hoping this year won't be quite so bad
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              • #8
                Originally posted by poly View Post
                Had absolutely loads of caterpillars last year, hoping this year won't be quite so bad
                They will be worse if you don't get rid of the first hatching!!!!!!!
                Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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                • #9
                  Had it bad last year and spotted some on the lower leaves tonight. Classic lines of tiny caterpillars running up the leaf veins. I did my best to remove affected leaves but you never get them all do you?

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                  • #10
                    Yep, spotted the first of the year on Monday. Gave them a good spraying with Provado, as I agree that it's the only thing that works. I dilute it 50/50 with water - it still works, you spend half as much and put half as much chemical on your bush.
                    Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
                    By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
                    While better men than we go out and start their working lives
                    At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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