'Firepot' Dahlia...

Another beauty, ours have been eaten to bits, only just recovering!!

I put raw crushed egg shells all around the new sprouting leaves...(i collect them all year)...grit as well..and a few blue pellets in the planting hole, when the leaves are coming through the ground i peg bits of copper scouring pads around as well...only way Dd..lol

Goodness me you have got it covered, brilliant ideas, hope I can remember these tips.....

Lol...Dd the other major problem is earwigs...they give me the heebie jeebies....I cant do the straw in an upturned pot thing, to catch them....so they usually eat the flowers....:<(

We are just waiting for them to appear, we have every bug you could think of, so far!!

Oh dear....Im waiting for them too..earwigs, horrible creatures....