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

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 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

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. What I find is that not only do the carrots disappear but so do the slug pellets what could be eating them under the cloche?

Can you tell me what it is that is causing my mint, when it appears to be growing so well, to appear to die off. The leaves go brown, dry & shriveled. I have found a few tiny green caterpillers on it, but not enough to make it look as though they are causing the problem.

I have a bit of a problem with what appears to be vine weevil grubs in my raised beds, I have adopted the role of main gardener (actually I am A Child Care Practitioner, a play worker ! ) here at the Bideford Bay Children?s Centre, in Bideford, North Devon

I have gradually been acquiring some beautiful scented roses but each year they produce black spots on their leaves with eventual die back