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    What do you hate?

    Now the growing year is drawing to a close, Grow Your Own is looking for the very worst pests of 2011. Do you stay awake at night fuming over slugs or have rabbits eaten the bark on your prized fruit trees? We want to know which insects or animals have been plaguing you over the last few months.


    Your comments may be edited and published within Grow Your Own magazine.
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    Slugs and snails
    34.69%
    17
    Vine weevils
    2.04%
    1
    Glasshouse red spider mites
    2.04%
    1
    Whitefly
    16.33%
    8
    Aphids
    6.12%
    3
    Other
    38.78%
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    Without a doubt its caterpillars on the brassicas.

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    • #3
      Aphids on the runner beans. It was very difficult to sit back and watch them eat my newer plants, waiting for the ladybird larvae to show up ,which they eventually did, and made very short work of the infestation.

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      • #4
        Asparagus Beetle, depressing, such a short harvesting time and the little blighter chomps on it before you do!
        Little ol' me

        Has just bagged a Lottie!
        Oh and the chickens are taking over my garden!
        FIL and MIL - http://vegblogs.co.uk/chubbly/

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        • #5
          We were enjoying our first ever crop of cucumbers until an infestation of Glasshouse spider mites did for them

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          • #6
            Well, its got to be the slimy chappies ! - Slugs and Snails

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            • #7
              Snails - they are much worse than slugs!!

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              • #8
                Rats and carrot flies!
                My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

                Diversify & prosper


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                • #9
                  It has been the foxes again, I'm sorry to say! so I've voted other. They've trashed the debris netting and keep digging holes, so each time I go there at the mo I'm having to replant the onion sets
                  The old boys say it's cos of using chicken pellets ...they make chicken wire cages to protect their crops

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                  • #10
                    Cats, if I leave as much as 6 inch square piece of soil bare or uncovered with netting it gets used as a litter tray.
                    Location....East Midlands.

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                    • #11
                      Whitefly........clouds and clouds of them. Everytime you go under the netting on the brassicas you could do with one of those dust masks on .
                      S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
                      a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

                      You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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                      • #12
                        leek moth the devils pest
                        my plot march 2013http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvzqRS0_hbQ

                        hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is a whole lot better

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                        • #13
                          Thankfully I get very little trouble from the usual pests like slugs and aphids but carrot fly is the bane of my life.

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                          • #14
                            The only pest I have encountered that is actually of some use......slugs and snails.........but only of some use in a witches cauldron when producing little boys.....along with the puppy dogs tails.......

                            I hate slugs......with a wizardy passion.

                            Loving my allotment!

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                            • #15
                              Earwigs! Everywhere this year, nesting all around the lettuce and really put us off them

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