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25 Aug 18, Dorothy (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Hi. Can anyone help. I live in the Redlands and can grow cape gooseberries beautifully but Pest love them. I get about three different types of insects and a grub. Incesticide doesn’t help much, tried clay dust, all sorts... I have heard about boiled up ruhbarb leaves works against bugs. Can anyone help please. Dorothy

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27 Aug 18, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Have you tried tomato dust or try yellow sticky paper/traps on eBay or buy from Bunnings or the cheap shops.

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27 Aug 18, Mike (Australia - temperate climate)

Go to Gardenpatch Organics Seeds and Plants on the internet. Click garden products and garden netting - vegie netting. 3.5 ($4/m) or 6m ($7.50/m) wide. Buy 2 meters. Put a few stakes in and hang the netting up on it - like an A frame. It will keep all insects and bugs out.

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31 Aug 18, Jane (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Do you mean cover the entire frame so nothing enters? If so then how are things eg tomatoes, pollinated? Thnx.

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11 Nov 18, Jonathan (South Africa - Humid sub-tropical climate)

Most of these plants are wind pollinated too. Just a little shake gets them pollinated.

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03 Sep 18, Mike (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Cover the whole frame - tomatoes pollinate by the wind mainly. If you want to keep insects out then you need to use vegie netting, If birds - bird netting. Vegie netting means you can have rows approx. 9' long and 3.5 meter wide will go around both side of the plants. I put two stakes in the ground about 8-9' apart. A steel rod between them to keep them apart. 1200mm high 150mm x 150mm wire mesh between the posts tied to the posts. You wind the tomato plant in and out of the 150mm sq holes and can use bale twine or whatever to hold the plants to the mesh. Put some thin poles out about 12-18

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07 Aug 18, Christie Chaplin-Saunders (Canada - Zone 5a Temperate Warm Summer climate)

My Inca berries have flower buds now...

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06 Aug 18, (New Zealand - cool/mountain climate)

I have just picked my rambling cape gooseberry bush clean, anticipating some lovely jam. The berries are tiny. About the size of a small pea! Any hints so I might get fatter ones next year?

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09 Sep 18, Angela (Australia - temperate climate)

I grow the Aunt Molly variant /relative- also known as Ground Cherry. You don’t pick them. You wait till they fall and the case has turned papery and gather them from the ground. This happens very late in the season, seems to take forever. Highly recommend Aunt Molly.

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07 Aug 18, (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

Poor soil or growing conditions - the amount of sunlight etc. If you have a smaller weak plant then hit it up with some fertiliser or add some compost or manures around the plant for the next crop.

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