Pests and diseases

Fruit and vegetables are often prone to attack by pests and diseases, many of which only attack certain species of vegetable or fruit. Others such as slugs a snails attack most plants, especially in the early seedling stage.  There also pernicious weeds which take over a plot if not curtailed.

A comprehensive guide to diseases can be found at www.rhs.org.uk.
Here are a few of the more common allotments problems:

• Weedkiller in manure
• Potato and Tomato blight
• Bindweed
• Leek moth
• Onion eelworm
• Allium leaf miner
• Asparagus beetle
• Japanese knotweed
• Horsetail 
• General advice on pests and diseases