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So I seem to have a fly problem on my veg. They are big- I think bluebottles but I don’t know my flies. Google tells me they feed on rotting meat but there is definitely no rotting meat on my allotment. I have a lot of dead slugs/snails in one area due to putting pellets down but the flies are in a different part!
I *think* they are on my swede plants. But I’ve been a bit of an idiot and planted everything without labels and as it’s my first year I don’t know what a few things are rather embarrassingly!
I did have a cat problem. Using my raised beds as it’s litter tray but this was a new raised bed I filled with new compost and planted my overcrowded ‘swede’ into. Now the original bed and the new one have all wilted a bit which I assumed was because I upset them but now I’m wondering if it’s the flies?
They are around my rockery too. (I’m using my garden) I don’t know the rockery plants as it was there when I moved in last autumn.
I’m a bit baffled.
I seem to be learning all about pests this first year!
Am I making sense here does anyone know what’s attracting them?
I *think* they are on my swede plants. But I’ve been a bit of an idiot and planted everything without labels and as it’s my first year I don’t know what a few things are rather embarrassingly!
I did have a cat problem. Using my raised beds as it’s litter tray but this was a new raised bed I filled with new compost and planted my overcrowded ‘swede’ into. Now the original bed and the new one have all wilted a bit which I assumed was because I upset them but now I’m wondering if it’s the flies?
They are around my rockery too. (I’m using my garden) I don’t know the rockery plants as it was there when I moved in last autumn.
I’m a bit baffled.
I seem to be learning all about pests this first year!
Am I making sense here does anyone know what’s attracting them?
