Have you noticed how quickly the Daffodil flowers are fading this year. I put it down to the recent spell of dry warm weather. Yesterday was just like a summer day here in West Sussex anyway. I spent an enjoyable few hours pulling off the dead heads. By the removing the dead head the plant can die down storing all its energy into the bulb for next year. As I was pottering around the garden I decided to sort out a few of my many pots. One had a sad looking Cordyline with some pretty little pansies around the base. I dug out the pansies and put them into other pots.
Vine weevle grubs
Then to my horror as I was pulling out the Cordyline I noticed a little white grub. On further inspection there were loads of them. I went back to the pansies and found a few in the soil around their roots. My favorite way of disposing with these nasties is to put them onto the bird table or squish them between my gloved fingers. I learnt from Helen Yemms column in the Saturday Telegraph that Vine Weevil eggs are the colour of earth so undetectable. One way to deter the adult beetle is to mulch the top of pots with a gravel type mulch. I use my Eco Charlie Slug and Snail deterrent which not only looks attractive but stops water loss and deters any slug and snails that maybe looking for a snack. My next job now is to look in other pots.
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