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What is eating your plants, and what you may legally use
What is eating your plants, and what you may legally use: diagnosis pages by symptom and by culprit, photograph-led: aphids, slugs, cabbage white, carrot…
This launch guide maps the topic, the source base and the practical questions. Check the linked official authority before acting on a rule, deadline, price or safety requirement.
What this guide covers
Diagnosis pages by symptom and by culprit, photograph-led: aphids, slugs, cabbage white, carrot fly, Colorado beetle which is notifiable, late blight with the humidity-and-temperature trigger that predicts it, apple scab, powdery mildew, vine weevil, codling moth, and the nutrient deficiencies routinely mistaken for disease.
Every section ends with the same ladder — cultural, then biological, then only the products actually authorised for home garden use in that country with the pre-harvest interval, which is the part every competing page leaves out. A focused example is "Late blight: the week it arrives, and whether it is already too late."
How to use it
Use What is eating your plants, and what you may legally use to compare stable place facts and official facilities. Live opening, access and disruption information should always be confirmed with the operator before travel.
The page keeps the main question, its evidence base and its limits together in one canonical place. That makes it useful as a quick orientation and avoids splitting a broad subject into shallow pages before each narrower answer has enough verified material of its own.
Search vocabulary in four languages
Terminology changes across borders. These are example phrases people use for the same subject in Estonian, Finnish, Russian and English; they are included as a practical vocabulary aid, not as hidden keywords.
| Language | Example phrase |
|---|---|
| Estonian | lehetäide tõrje mahedalt |
| Finnish | etanoiden torjunta puutarhassa |
| Russian | колорадский жук чем обработать |
| English | potato blight when to spray |
Evidence and provenance
The evidence map below records the primary, official or openly licensed material chosen for this guide. It is deliberately visible so a reader can tell the difference between a rule published by an authority, a measured dataset and an editorial explanation.
Source: EPPO Global Database (free access, cited), the EU Pesticides Database and the national plant-protection product registers (PTA, Tukes), which are open, plus national plant-health agency guidance. · checked 2026-09-09
Source names are preserved even where an authority changes its web address. No figure is added to this launch page unless it is already present in the cited source description or can be computed from a named dataset.
Scope and boundaries
sowing-calendar is when to sow, plant out and harvest; this is what went wrong in between.
Connected TempoLife guides
The following paths are the intentional hand-offs named in the brief. They keep adjacent subjects separate while making the next useful reference easy to find.
More Sowing Calendar
Continue to the related TempoLife reference.
More Farms
Continue to the related TempoLife reference.
Why it belongs on TempoLife
/more/sowing-calendar and /more/farms.
Frequently asked questions
What does this guide cover?
Diagnosis pages by symptom and by culprit, photograph-led: aphids, slugs, cabbage white, carrot fly, Colorado beetle which is notifiable, late blight with the humidity-and-temperature trigger that predicts it, apple scab, powdery mildew, vine weevil, codling moth, and the nutrient deficiencies routinely mistaken for disease. Every section ends with the same ladder — cultural, then biological, then only the products actually authorised for home garden use in that country with the pre-harvest interval, which is the…
What evidence does it use?
EPPO Global Database (free access, cited), the EU Pesticides Database and the national plant-protection product registers (PTA, Tukes), which are open, plus national plant-health agency guidance.
Where does this guide stop?
sowing-calendar is when to sow, plant out and harvest; this is what went wrong in between.
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