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Beware who you listen to....
In article , Sacha
says... We use mainly yellow pellets and they would be hard to mistake for white. Next time you go to a gc or nursery, either look for some on sale or ask the nurseryman to show them to you. But as Charlie says, they're scattered throughout the compost, eggs are in clumps. You just have to imagine the insect sitting in one spot while it lays its eggs. It's not going to move about through the soil scattering eggs as it goes. Your query is by no means unusual BTW. I should say urg receives two or three questions about this every year. But the distribution of the pellets should be a helpful clue. When we make up a compost mix here, it's like making a cake on a giant scale! The bag of compost is emptied onto a potting bench, a bit to one side. Pellets are scattered on top and then the whole thing is turned over and over to the other side and then back again. Last week while wandering through a local GC a lovely little shrub caught my eye - it had shed all its leaves and it just had sweet smelling pink blossom, so I bought it - a Viburnum bodnantense "Charles Lamont". On removing it from the pot, the bottom centre of the rootball had a large clump of around 40 creamy/yellow coloured "beads", which penetrated partly into the rootball, so I removed (squashed) all those. As it was a clump they must have been eggs. Nice plant. It is now in a big tub next to the front door. -- David in Normandy |
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