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Sweet Peas and beetles
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I have grown some lovely, scented, sweet peas, but can't bring them into the house because they are full of tiny black beetles - what can I do please? I long to fill jugs and vases with them :-( Regards, Aileen |
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Sweet Peas and beetles
They are probably the oil seed rape beetle. I've never had them but have
heard about this on Gardeners' Question Time. I'm afraid I can't remember the remedy. I think it was to grow something yellow and they'll go to that instead of your sweet peas Aileen Howard wrote: Help! I have grown some lovely, scented, sweet peas, but can't bring them into the house because they are full of tiny black beetles - what can I do please? I long to fill jugs and vases with them :-( Regards, Aileen Robert The Devil's Advocate www.pafc.co.uk |
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Sweet Peas and beetles
Thanks Robert
You're right, they are oil seed rape beetles as far as I can tell. I 'googled' the phrase and found them described on the RHS website. I'm sure that's them, so it seems I'm stuck with them. I will need to cut the flowers and put them somewhere to migrate away from the vase and towards the light for a few hours before taking them into the house - it sounds a bit tedious, so I'll probably just leave them in the garden. Trouble is, if I don't cut them for the house I'll probably forget to take the dead flowers off and they'll stop flowering. It seems I can look forward to them coming back next year :-( Regards, Aileen "The Devil's Advocate" wrote in message ... They are probably the oil seed rape beetle. I've never had them but have heard about this on Gardeners' Question Time. I'm afraid I can't remember the remedy. I think it was to grow something yellow and they'll go to that instead of your sweet peas Aileen Howard wrote: Help! I have grown some lovely, scented, sweet peas, but can't bring them into the house because they are full of tiny black beetles - what can I do please? I long to fill jugs and vases with them :-( Regards, Aileen Robert The Devil's Advocate www.pafc.co.uk |
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