big fell!

hi mate

happy new year and all that, bet you have been busy , guess its feet up time now and a well deserved rest (if only). well i have just come back from kenya had a couple of weeks with the out laws who live over there , bit to hot for me 35 degrees plus. but on the farm we are starting daffodils (indoor) and i have started to pot up some norway spruce in large containers , on the down side i found vine weevil in some of the trees !!! have you come across this pest if so how do you combat against it , we have ,had trouble with them in the strawberrys before but destroyed the plants , bit reluctant to do that with the 3 year old trees though. we use equity (dursban) as a drench , and have tried provardo ( systemic insecticide) but to no joy , will the trees survive???

all the best

dave fox

not long till asparagus mate!!