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How can I get rid of the little maggots eating my strawberry leaves

The water from my water butt is rather smelly, it is covered and the collection areas do have filters to remove larger vegetable debris. Will the EM ceramic bag work inside the butt to reduce the smelliness of the water.

Please can you help, my carrots get up to about an inch high and then disappear they are under a protective cloche and there is plenty of slug pellets around

I need top strong netting for a cage 11ft and 11ft plus enough for overhang. Please advise cost etc

I have been on your website for the treatment of leaf eating pests and wanted to identify whether this is vine weevil attack

I can not find anything that looks like this in my RHS Pest and Diseases book and people asked so far do not know what it is. I would be very grateful for any advice you can give me and what action I should take

Hi there today down the allotment my next plot neighbour asked me if I new what was on the leaves of her raspberries - its has lots of red spots

We have one of your 8 by 4 raised beds. Please can you advise us on the distance we should leave between an existing mixed border (bushes, flowers, some trees - all very sparse because of thin soil) and the raised bed.

I would like more information about how the gripple wire tensioner works please. 1. Do I have to use it with the rope wire shown in your picture or will plain wire work too? 2. How does it tighten the wire to re-tension it?