Sorry for the strange question, and please forgive me if this has already been asked. My garden peppermint, kale, basil, and other plants are being completely eaten by this kind of caterpillars. Is there any effective way to keep them away?
Region : auckland
Hello, looking for advice for my tomato plants. I suspect its been overwatered from the recent storm and being left outside the whole time. But can anyone give me a suggestion and/or explanation why the bottom leaves yellows, wither and die. Ive been feeding it the Kings plant liquid tomato feed in the set intervals. Photos attached.
Its happened before the storm as well and ive just trimmed off all the "damaged" stalks. I suspected over water after my son enthusiastically was helping me water the plants for a week.
Planted this purple ake ake last winter and it went gang busters. I trimmed it a couple of times spring and summer so it would bush and not get too leggy. Now not looking too healthy. I’ve had trouble growing them before - they seem more temperamental than the standard ake ake. Anyone else had issues? Good sun, good drainage, decent soil. In Auckland.
I might give it a couple of weeks to see if the autumn rain and sun combo do the trick. Otherwise, should I cut it off halfway down? The bottom still looks healthy.
Went to a PYO farm that had Feijoa trees. We picked mostly the ones on the ground since the staff said the ground was are the best. Came back home and open the Feijoas and its brown.
I've been so fortunate with bad weather and random cold spells this growing season to grow a tiny butternut, perhaps next season will be worse and I can achieve an edible doll house miniature
Hi folks,
Our 2.5 year old Buddleia started dropping leaves and drooping about 6 weeks ago.
No sign of any insect infestation.
We are in Tauranga, so we've had a fair bit of rain this summer, could it simply be having a sook about it being wet?
We havent used any sprays on or around it so I dont think its accidentally sucked up any poison.
Any thoughts appreciated, have a good weekend :-)
I have seen this around here for years but the is the first time I have seen it on green onions. It seems always be on the southern facing side of things here. I had it on the southern side of the house. It was very hard to scrub off before we repainted.
Hi, this corokia hedge was planted about 5 years ago and it’s been amazing, but over the last 12 months part of the hedge has been struggling. Any advice on how to fix it. The rest of the hedge (approx 8m) is fine, but this appears to be spreading. I snapped some of the twig and it wasn’t rotten.
This is a good place to learn about pest plants in NZ and how to identify them.
https://www.gw.govt.nz/pest-and-weed-central/?organisationId=7&pwsystem=true&tags=plants