Friday, 17 September 2010

You'd better watch out!

Next year I'm thinking of abandoning my principles and using some pesticides and other sprays in the garden. I like to be organic but I think because my back yard is the only one that has a 'proper' garden in the immediate area, every pest and plant disease heads straight for it! Perhaps I should have done the same as all the neighbours and had the lot laid with patio slabs and a few pots around the edges.
But I can't do that because I love to see flowers in the summer as they attract bees and butterflies. This year they have also attracted plagues of ants, greenfly, earwigs, whitefly, capsid bugs, green bottles, fruit flies as well as the usual slugs and snails.
Not only that, I've had some black spot on the roses too so I've had to prune them back hard and get rid of the leaves and prunings. Most of the pest control that I've used this year has been the usual organic stuff that works well under normal circumstances, but this year the sheer numbers of pests have overwhelmed what I've used.
So, if any of you wretched pests and plant diseases are reading this, watch out, you have been warned! Next year will see me in early spring, before the bees become active, togged up in protective clothing and armed with spray guns full of chemicals to deal with anything that is a threat to my plants!

1 comment:

  1. Sounds like a plan grandma! I always had to dust my roses. They're so vulnerable but oh so lovely too.

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