Hi all!
Again I need your help!
Strawberries......last year I planted them out...very bad results (propably the weather). This year I took them indoors in the greenhouse hoping for all that kilo's of nice fruit....about 50 plants in a selfbuilt planter. But.....lice....an awfull lot of them. How to get rid of them before they destroy all my plants? I know wash up in water but are there other solutions?
Han
What sort of lice, are they wood lice?
No knowledge myself so I asked a friend and they suggested putting damp newspaper down as an alternative food source and then replacing it when it is full of beasties.
Could you mean (spider) mites?
It is the (ordinary?) green lice.........
Do you mean green fly?..by other name aphids?
I don't know if you mean aphids - or woodlice - or headlice!
But I do know that strawberries like to be given a year to settle in to the ground so they can develop a nice root structure. Some even suggest removing all the fruits in the first year so that they put all their energy in to leaf and root growth. I don't go that far - but you normally will get better results if you don't move them as they have to start all over again then.
Good luck with the "lice" - greenhouses are sometimes a nightmare for pests - woodlice chomp all my sweet peppers normally.
I guess you mean wood louse / lice.
Here is the R H S 's slant on them;
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/profile.aspx?pid=723 (http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/profile.aspx?pid=723)
No, it's not woodlice. After reading and searching I think it's strawberry aphids that are ruining my plants and fruit. A lot of white stuff on the leaves/stems and under the leaves a lot of very tiny little dots. A lot of ants too so this must be lice?
A friend of mine has had his strawbs eaten by and infestation of ants in his polytunnel :BangHead:
diatomaceous earth dealt nicely with all the ants in my raised bed
pests
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/306314/Common-insect-pests-of-strawberries.pdf
da's zonde, liefste!