On Fri, 10 May 2013 10:41:43 +0200, Martin wrote:

On Fri, 10 May 2013 08:53:25 +0100, Stephen Wolstenholme
wrote:

On Thu, 9 May 2013 21:30:29 +0100, (Larry Stoter) wrote:

We have a Concord (?) pear, which can produce very tasty, juicy fruit
and it is currently covered in blossom.

The last 3-4 years, as the fruit begins to ripen, wasps start eating the
fruit just at the base of the stem - fruit then rots and/or drops off.

Any suggestions for preventing the little black and yellow ^&%*£!! from
doing this.

Larry

Spraying the fruit with a very dilute carbolic soap mix keeps wasps
away.

Can you still buy carbolic soap? The soap that I bought thinking it
was carbolic wasn't. It used chemicals to give it the smell.

It's not very easy to get these days. Very, very dilute TCP works just
as well. Both are phenol based.

Steve

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