If you’ve ever thought a caterpillar wasn’t a threat to your garden, you were wrong. Caterpillars might seem cute, but while they prepare to turn into a butterfly, they can destroy an entire plant whilst finding energy. A single caterpillar can grow exponentially in a given week, surviving off your garden plants. In fact, if you don’t check your garden daily, you might not notice the damage to your tomatoes or cabbages and many other…
If you grow broad beans on a regular basis then you know to be on the lookout for many pests and diseases, with one of the most common being blackflies. Blackflies are problematic because they not only weaken your plants but it leaves them subsequently susceptible to infections. Thankfully, controlling blackfly on broad beans is not as hard as it might seem. What is Blackfly? Blackflies are small aphids that attack your broad beans, suck…
Strawberries are a wonderful fruit, that given the right conditions will provide ample fruit throughout the season. But what happens when the plants have finished fruiting? All too often gardeners forget about them until the next year, but by that point, the damage might have already been done. It takes only a little effort to keep the strawberries happy and healthy and produce an equally abundant crop the following year. So, what should you do…
