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I came across a reference posted on the Vine recently about Mexican marigolds good for keeping couch grass down, and of course using French marigolds as companion plants to combat white fly, the use of strawberries helps to control vine weevil. I would like to know what other plants can be used for controlling pests or problems, so what do you use and what does it control?
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it may be a struggle to reach the top, but once your over the hill your problems start.
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I grow Leopard's bane in my garden - v. pretty and seems to do the trick as its name implies. Now if I could only find something similar for deer. -
Strawberries to control vine weevil? Every trough of strawberries Ive ever had have ended up infested with the blighters. I thought heucheras and strawberries were a vine weevils favourite.Comment
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Turnips are supposed to repel couch grass.Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poetComment
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Perhaps I should have been a bit clearer, strawberry plants are used as a sacrificial plant to keep the vine weevil from more valuable plants, as the weevil, as you have found, will attack them firstOriginally posted by Bex2012 View Postit may be a struggle to reach the top, but once your over the hill your problems start.
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Reply to Heated mat for Tom's and chilliesI use a mix of six scoops of compost three scoops of sand/grit and two scoops of perlite,the quantity is unimportant as long as the ratio is the same, if for seeds I use this mix, if I am potting on I add some blood, fish and bone, along with a small quantity of chicken manure pellets
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