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Veg being more 'my thing', it's very rare I ever ask anyone a flower related question either on here or in the world at large, but I could do with a bit of help with a petty pressing and pretty urgent problem.
The problems centres around a few 'miniature' Sunflowers - i.e. the shorter 18" or so sized varieties - that I took delivery of yesterday.
After planting out these pretty excellent looking plugs just yesterday afternoon, I wandered out to look at them this morning and found that at least one of them had been subjected to a pretty ferocious predator attack within the first day of being planted, with one being left with a huge hole in the particular leaf that had been attacked.
I'm enclosing a photograph of the most heavily eaten plant, and would be very grateful if anyone could identify the likely culprit (not that there's very chance of me pressing charges over this) and/or suggest what actions I might take in reducing the likely incidence of further molestation. I have some of those Nematode characters on the way to me at the moment, but this looks far more like an insect attack to me rather than being the work of a hungry slug.
The problems centres around a few 'miniature' Sunflowers - i.e. the shorter 18" or so sized varieties - that I took delivery of yesterday.
After planting out these pretty excellent looking plugs just yesterday afternoon, I wandered out to look at them this morning and found that at least one of them had been subjected to a pretty ferocious predator attack within the first day of being planted, with one being left with a huge hole in the particular leaf that had been attacked.
I'm enclosing a photograph of the most heavily eaten plant, and would be very grateful if anyone could identify the likely culprit (not that there's very chance of me pressing charges over this) and/or suggest what actions I might take in reducing the likely incidence of further molestation. I have some of those Nematode characters on the way to me at the moment, but this looks far more like an insect attack to me rather than being the work of a hungry slug.
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