Over the last couple of summers we have had our fair share of insects. It became so bad at one stage, I went online to see if I could find anyone who had a good solution.  That’s when I came across this solution on YouTube. I did a bit of a comparison to see if [...]

Washing
After careful humming and hawing over insecticides, we decided to take the nobler course of action and bathe the insects off our plants.
A few days ago I noticed that some of the plants inside had discolouration on the leaves:
After putting this out to the crowds on Twitter, I got a number of hepful replies. In [...]

We’ve been growing kale for a few months on the balcony, and have already enjoyed a fine few meals with it. A few days ago I was surprised while watering to find it crawling in long black and yellow things.

About 20 caterpillars had taken up residence on one of the kale plants and pretty much [...]