Post by wiseoldman on Aug 5, 2018 8:34:40 GMT
We have large garden which is mainly flowers and ponds and i also run tow allotments. We always try to work together with our local insect population to create a good outcome for all. This year i was dismayed to find black aphids on my runner beans. I decided to ignore them and hope that we would live together. Like many in this area the bean flowers have not been setting so i began watering the blooms to see if this helped. After just few days watering i found that all of the blckfly had gone. I have never seen this before.
In our flower garden, my wife grows nasturtiums. white butterflies then lay eggs on these and torn the leave to fertilizer. An unusual systen but it works well for us. This year being so dry we have been watering the garden to keep things alive. we are seeing Large Whites lay, the eggs ahtching but the larvea die after few days.
could this be related to something in our tap water?
