{"id":272,"date":"2013-09-26T01:52:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T08:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=272"},"modified":"2013-09-24T09:25:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T16:25:46","slug":"pests-and-diseases-on-lupins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/pests-and-diseases-on-lupins\/","title":{"rendered":"Lupins their Pests and Diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dirty great clumps of greenfly can infest your Lupins.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4040\/4614216149_287033665e.jpg\" alt=\"lupin\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lupins can be grown from the seed you collect.<br \/>\nIf buying a potted plant see what the colour and spike is like before you buy. A good plant will last several years with little fungal problems.<br \/>\nIf you want a second flush of flowers it is best to dead head the spires of blossom. Deadheading saves energy in the plant.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Lupin Problems and Treatments<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Slugs like the tender shoots and snails seem to have attached themselves to the stronger leaves this year in my garden. I need a lot of grit around the base of the plants before they start to grow or to buy some nematodes as the weather improves.<\/li>\n<li>Green fly gather in great quantities on my second flush of blooms and need to be washed off in soapy water or a systemic insecticide used.<\/li>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<li>Weak Lupins or yellow leaves may be caused by too much lime as Lupins prefer an acid soil so apply sequestrine or an acid loving treatment.<\/li>\n<li>Powdery mildew may affect Lupins. Pull off infected leaves and burn rather than composting them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4666543791\/\" title=\"lupins by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4064\/4666543791_9f9ffc0cb1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"lupins\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Lupin Seeds and Plants<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=lupin\">Lupin from Thompson &amp; Morgan <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/grow-lupins-growing-lupinus-polyphyllus\/\">Growing lupins<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/lupin-flowers\/\">Lupin Flowers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dirty great clumps of greenfly can infest your Lupins. Lupins can be grown from the seed you collect. If buying a potted plant see what the colour and spike is like before you buy. A good plant will last several years with little fungal problems. If you want a second flush of flowers it is best to dead head the spires of blossom. Deadheading saves energy in the plant. Lupin Problems and Treatments Slugs like the tender shoots and snails&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/pests-and-diseases-on-lupins\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-pests-problems","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}