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Wine veevil drowning
Hi, I haven't been here for a while so forgive me if this has already
been talked about.. Does the group think that leaving potted plants in immersed water for a day or two would drown vine veevil? Annabel |
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"Annabel" wrote in message ... Hi, I haven't been here for a while so forgive me if this has already been talked about.. Does the group think that leaving potted plants in immersed water for a day or two would drown vine veevil? Annabel Here's what the GTQ experts have to say : http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/gqt/fshe...sheetsq8.shtml Jenny "~( |
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Wine veevil drowning
"JennyC" wrote in message ... "Annabel" wrote in message ... Hi, I haven't been here for a while so forgive me if this has already been talked about.. Does the group think that leaving potted plants in immersed water for a day or two would drown vine veevil? Annabel Didn't work when I tried it. |
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Annabel wrote:
Hi, I haven't been here for a while so forgive me if this has already been talked about.. Does the group think that leaving potted plants in immersed water for a day or two would drown vine veevil? Dropping the weevils in a fish pond works well. ;-) |
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from "cpemma" contains these words: Annabel wrote: Hi, I haven't been here for a while so forgive me if this has already been talked about.. Does the group think that leaving potted plants in immersed water for a day or two would drown vine veevil? Dropping the weevils in a fish pond works well. ;-) On a hook? -- Rusty Hinge No m'lud, it wasn't a sneg. My joints creak. |
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from "cpemma" contains these words: Annabel wrote: Hi, I haven't been here for a while so forgive me if this has already been talked about.. Does the group think that leaving potted plants in immersed water for a day or two would drown vine veevil? Dropping the weevils in a fish pond works well. ;-) On a hook? -- Rusty Hinge No m'lud, it wasn't a sneg. My joints creak. |
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Hi, I haven't been here for a while so forgive me if this has already
been talked about.. Does the group think that leaving potted plants in immersed water for a day or two would drown vine veevil? Annabel No. I had a number of containers with annuals that had lots of vine weevils. I threw away the plants but tried re-cycling the soil by drowning it completely in water (to the consistency of thin mud) for over a week. It didn't work - after drying out the mud there were weevils wriggling in it. However, as someone else mentioned, throwing individual weevils into a pond with fish is a satisfying way of disposing of them. The problem is finding them all. No matter how carefully you look through the soil of an infected plant it seems impossible to find them all. Perhaps there are still eggs there or larvae which are too small to see. You can buy vine weevil killer - but I find this expensive and often more cost effective just to throw the plant away! -- Drakanthus. (Spam filter: Include the word VB anywhere in the subject line or emails will never reach me.) |
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Hi, I haven't been here for a while so forgive me if this has already
been talked about.. Does the group think that leaving potted plants in immersed water for a day or two would drown vine veevil? Annabel No. I had a number of containers with annuals that had lots of vine weevils. I threw away the plants but tried re-cycling the soil by drowning it completely in water (to the consistency of thin mud) for over a week. It didn't work - after drying out the mud there were weevils wriggling in it. However, as someone else mentioned, throwing individual weevils into a pond with fish is a satisfying way of disposing of them. The problem is finding them all. No matter how carefully you look through the soil of an infected plant it seems impossible to find them all. Perhaps there are still eggs there or larvae which are too small to see. You can buy vine weevil killer - but I find this expensive and often more cost effective just to throw the plant away! -- Drakanthus. (Spam filter: Include the word VB anywhere in the subject line or emails will never reach me.) |
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Wine veevil drowning
"........ threw away the plants but tried re-cycling the soil by drowning it
completely in water (to the consistency of thin mud) for over a week ....." A burst of Microwave and they don't make a come back -- David Hill Abacus nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
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from "David Hill" contains these words: "........ threw away the plants but tried re-cycling the soil by drowning it completely in water (to the consistency of thin mud) for over a week ....." A burst of Microwave and they don't make a come back But don't overcook them as they dry out very quickly. -- Rusty Hinge No m'lud, it wasn't a sneg. My joints creak. |
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"........ threw away the plants but tried re-cycling the soil by drowning
it completely in water (to the consistency of thin mud) for over a week ......" A burst of Microwave and they don't make a come back "But don't overcook them as they dry out very quickly" Why? does it spoil the flavour? -- David Hill Abacus nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
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"........ threw away the plants but tried re-cycling the soil by drowning
it completely in water (to the consistency of thin mud) for over a week ......" A burst of Microwave and they don't make a come back "But don't overcook them as they dry out very quickly" Why? does it spoil the flavour? -- David Hill Abacus nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
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Wine veevil drowning
Hi All,
I had an idea a while ago, but have never tried it, so don't know if it would work. Here it is. Tell me what you think. There is at least one product on the market that'll kill off vine weevils, but being systemic, it's not something you can water in to the soil round fruit/vegetable crops. The other problem is that it's not suitable for some plants, from what I can recall, so cannot be used on everything in the garden. Thirdly, I suppose, it's very expensive, so would be prohibitively expensive for most people to use on a whole garden. Taking this all into account, I wondered if it would be possible to 'booby-trap' the garden with the occasional plant that had been treated. This wouldn't protect any plants in the garden from grubs/larvae, but any adults wandering around snacking on the 'booby-trap' plants wouldn't last long enough to lay their eggs. In theory, it should be possible to dot around the odd treated plant amongst the untreated ones, and at least have some success in killing off the weevils as they roam around snacking on your prize plants. Not sure as I've explained the concept very well, but I wonder what anyone thinks. As far as I'm aware, the little blighters roam and snack over a wide area, so wouldn't spend their whole lives on a single (untreated) plant, so there's a good chance of knocking off the majority of adult weevils. Dave. |
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DaveDay34 wrote:
Hi All, I had an idea a while ago, but have never tried it, so don't know if it would work. Here it is. Tell me what you think. There is at least one product on the market that'll kill off vine weevils, but being systemic, it's not something you can water in to the soil round fruit/vegetable crops. The other problem is that it's not suitable for some plants, from what I can recall, so cannot be used on everything in the garden. Thirdly, I suppose, it's very expensive, so would be prohibitively expensive for most people to use on a whole garden. Taking this all into account, I wondered if it would be possible to 'booby-trap' the garden with the occasional plant that had been treated. This wouldn't protect any plants in the garden from grubs/larvae, but any adults wandering around snacking on the 'booby-trap' plants wouldn't last long enough to lay their eggs. In theory, it should be possible to dot around the odd treated plant amongst the untreated ones, and at least have some success in killing off the weevils as they roam around snacking on your prize plants. Not sure as I've explained the concept very well, but I wonder what anyone thinks. As far as I'm aware, the little blighters roam and snack over a wide area, so wouldn't spend their whole lives on a single (untreated) plant, so there's a good chance of knocking off the majority of adult weevils. Dave. That's a very efficient way of breeding a resistant population of the little blighters. Rod |
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Wine veevil drowning
Annabel wrote:
Hi, I haven't been here for a while so forgive me if this has already been talked about.. Does the group think that leaving potted plants in immersed water for a day or two would drown vine veevil? Annabel No. In fact one of the first manifestations of a VW problem is plants wilting slightly even though they look wet enough. I have often suspected but never verified in any way acceptable to a scientist that overwatering encourages the weevils. Rod |
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