http://www.pocketfarm.co.uk/cultivating-chaos-and-creative-disorder/ Self-sufficiency, farming, conservation, ecology and rural crafts Wed, 23 May 2018 15:30:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.32 http://www.pocketfarm.co.uk/cultivating-chaos-and-creative-disorder/#comment-113563 Tue, 02 May 2017 23:12:23 +0000 http://www.pocketfarm.co.uk/?p=2075#comment-113563 I tried to pick off sawfly grubs from gooseberries for several years, fighting the losing battle, until I realised that picking them off encouraged them by providing a continuous supply of leaves for successive hatches! Leave them on, then the plant is denuded just in time to be able to pick the gooseberries without getting trapped in the thorns, also, without leaves they are easier to find and pick – the leaves then regrow as the weather turns against the bugs, just in time for the bush to catch up before winter: its neat!

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