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I've been gardening with flowers and shrubs in my small house garden for many years but never veg other than a very brief dabble 30 ish years ago. I took on an allotment this year mainly for veg growing and I love it. Some successes and many failures. I hadn't realised the degree of pest problems I would encounter as I have never faced too much of that in my house garden other than vine weevils chewing on my heuchera/heucherella and the usual aphids, slugs and snails. On the allotment it feels a bit like guerrilla warfare, many of the beds need nets to stop pigeons, cabbage whites, carrotfly and my biggest annoyance of the year, allium leaf miner. Not to mention the swarms of whitefly in autumn on all the brassicas and the rats eating some beetroot (they left the skin behind, bless their delicate palates). I've used this forum for information all year ,thank you, so thought I should join and see if I can contribute in any way.
I've been gardening with flowers and shrubs in my small house garden for many years but never veg other than a very brief dabble 30 ish years ago. I took on an allotment this year mainly for veg growing and I love it. Some successes and many failures. I hadn't realised the degree of pest problems I would encounter as I have never faced too much of that in my house garden other than vine weevils chewing on my heuchera/heucherella and the usual aphids, slugs and snails. On the allotment it feels a bit like guerrilla warfare, many of the beds need nets to stop pigeons, cabbage whites, carrotfly and my biggest annoyance of the year, allium leaf miner. Not to mention the swarms of whitefly in autumn on all the brassicas and the rats eating some beetroot (they left the skin behind, bless their delicate palates). I've used this forum for information all year ,thank you, so thought I should join and see if I can contribute in any way.
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