Winter container watch
Amateur Gardening|January 23, 2021
One of her patio containers gives Ruth a nasty shock
Ruth Hayes
Winter container watch

LAST month I was playing with my pots, deadheading, weeding and moving them to a sheltered location at the side of the house because bad weather was forecast, when I noticed that the plants in one of them weren’t doing very well.

I reached out and slightly moved a sad-looking cyclamen and the whole thing lifted from the soil.

Vine weevils had eaten their way through the roots, and digging around in the compost I soon found a few of the dastardly grubs, immediately recognisable from their creamy, C-shaped bodies and brown heads.

この記事は Amateur Gardening の January 23, 2021 版に掲載されています。

7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。

この記事は Amateur Gardening の January 23, 2021 版に掲載されています。

7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。