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Hi All A very quick question - black fly - leaves curled and brown - cheap inventives ways to get rid. It is also on another tree in a garden I look after......ive tried garlic water but not worked? Thanks guys

By AnnaSwindon on 02 June 09 in Pests and diseases | Report misuse

3 Responses

  • the curled brown leaves could be because they were hit by frost. my pear trees have had some tips of the leaves 'burned' by the frost

    By Alex on 04 June 09 | Report misuse

  • boil up some rhubarb leaves with water, strain when cool, spray affected plants, will kill good bugs too and do not inhale.

    By lyndahornsey on 03 June 09 | Report misuse

  • Hi Anna
    If you make up a squirty bottle with a weak solution of washing up liquid and spray every day with this it should get rid of them but you can also remove all the dead/brown tips and leaves and that will stop them re-infecting- they much prefer new growth and it won't harm your plants.

    By sara venn on 03 June 09 | Report misuse

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