gooseberry sawflies

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Grubbypaws

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gooseberry sawflies
« on: August 20, 2016, 12:44 »
Has anyone got an organic solution to these horrors except for manually picking them off?
 >:( >:( >:(

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Re: gooseberry sawflies
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2016, 15:48 »
chickens, but they also like gooseberres  :lol:

Cover the ground around the gooseberries can help.

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Re: gooseberry sawflies
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2016, 17:33 »
If you hoe the ground under the gooseberries it helps because the sawflies pupate in the ground under the plants.

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Re: gooseberry sawflies
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2016, 23:58 »
this year I tried planting the onions around the gooseberries and the current bushes and so far no sawfly damage  :D

.....but hoping I'm not tempting fate by saying this   :unsure:

onions did good and now harvested so fingers crossed have missed the worst of it this year?

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Re: gooseberry sawflies
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2016, 11:40 »
I planted garlic round mine three years ago and never harvested them. They are still there growing grass like foliage and I haven't had sawfly since they were originally planted.

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Re: gooseberry sawflies
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2016, 14:53 »
I like the idea of the garlic; thank you.

Would brassica collars be any good? I have a load left over.

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Re: gooseberry sawflies
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2016, 15:06 »
Would chives work as well?

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Re: gooseberry sawflies
« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2016, 17:20 »
I like the idea of the garlic; thank you.

Would brassica collars be any good? I have a load left over.

I wouldn't have thought the collars would do much good; they don't cover a very large area compared to the diameter of the gooseberry bush.
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days all attack me at once...

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Re: gooseberry sawflies
« Reply #8 on: September 02, 2016, 22:50 »
Would chives work as well?

Worth trying, but maybe garlic chives would be a better bet. The garlic I used were just the odd small cloves that were left over after planting up my beds. They probably didn't grow very large but obviously split as the next year there were a group of shoots from each planting spot, I divided the larger clumps and so it has gone on. I think they may need replenishing this year so will plant a few cloves from this years harvest.


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