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Old 25-08-2014, 07:31 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Martin Brown Martin Brown is offline
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Default Gooseberry raiders

On 21/08/2014 18:14, David Hill wrote:
On 21/08/2014 15:41, David Rance wrote:
My gooseberry bush has had all its leaves eaten away, leaving just the
central vein.

What is likely to have done it? No other kind of bush has suffered.

David


Gooseberry saw fly


Yes. You have about three days or a week at most between them hatching
an eating every last leaf off the plant. By now you should have been
able to harvest the crop so the critters are a bit late...

Mine annoyingly succumb to American gooseberry mildew these days which
is a pity because they are a good size old sweet dessert purple variety.

Regards,
Martin Brown