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Re: Started my hot chilli's
« Reply #40 on: December 12, 2015, 17:24:14 »
Thank you Goodlife and Ancellsfarmer.  Ultimately planting up and then finding ladybirds and showing them the way to the greenhouse will be the answer.

If you can find ladybird larvae you have a better chance of catching them but far more important is the fact that they will stay where you put them because they can't fly. They are also greedier than the adults. Obviously the smaller ones will spend more time eating themselves up to the size they need to pupate.

Its one of the reasons I sow broad beans in October and November and March - more larvae for transferring to my pepper seedlings indoors.

Cheers.
With a microholding you always get too much or bugger-all. (I'm fed up calling it an allotment garden - it just encourages the tidy-police).

The simple/complex split is more & more important: Simple fertilisers Poor, complex ones Good. Simple (old) poisons predictable, others (new) the opposite.

 

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