On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:05:08 GMT, len garden
wrote:

the moth/butterfly won't be doing the eating its grubs will do that,
we do a safari early in the morning and pick off any grubs we find,
also helps if you birds like butcher birds or noisy miners visiting
the garden they will pick off the grubs.

but as you say just throw and old mesh curtain or mossy net over the
whole of the plants to keep the butterfly from laying eggs.

a fried told me of this product that they swear by, as the tropical
fruit fly are pretty bad around here, i'm going to give it a try but
it supposed to help the plant become resistant to bug attack, that is
become un-appatising you might say, all natural product they say.

Fruit fly is easy to kill. Place chlorene in one of those old orange
juice 2l containers mixed with water and a bit of vegimite. Only needs
to be about a quarter full in the bottle. Hang it to a try and presto,
fruit fly are wiped out. I have about 5 of these bottles hanging on
the fig tree. I do this about this time of year which lasts the whole
season without the need to go back and do it again.

I'll do as you suggest and get a mesh curtain and peg it down as where
we are on the coast of Perth it gets very windy.


it's called 'vita-guard' and it is from 'nutri-tech solutions'
www.nutri-tech.com.au, i have no comments on the product at this
stage maybe at the end of the season i might?

but we find if you feed the soil well then the plants will be less
attractive to bugs as they have a better supply of all nutrients and
trace elements, to that end we use no man made fertilisers, relying on
green mulchng and kitchen scraps along with some wee water.

On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:06:48 GMT, col wrote:
snipped
With peace and brightest of blessings,

len & bev