"meee" wrote in message
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I have just moved from se qld to nth qld, and brought my geranium
collection
with me. I had collected several different varities over the last few
years,
nothing unusual, but it was a start. So I planted them in my garden, and
lo
and behold, they started wilting. i dug them up to inspect, and the soil
was
squirming with countless small brown cockroaches. They had tunneled all
the
way up the stems, eating them until the mummified core was all that was
left. AAaaaagghh!!!! It's too late for my geraniums, but is there any way
that i can get rid of the cockroaches? Pleeease help!!!


Hmmm ... I never had any problems with geraniums in NQ (Atherton). We have
the brown cockroaches in our garden here (Brisbane) but they've never done
any harm to the plants so ... i dunno?? ("Bertie" the Bandicoot did
destroy a lot of my young plants in NQ though ... but in a very different
way .

We had great neighbours that gave us cuttings of whatever plant we wanted
from their gardens and who had a great knowledge on what would and wouldn't
grow ... and how most things grow like steam in the warm humid climate...
anybody local you can ask ... or maybe find a good local garden centre??

Sorry I'm no help
Amanda