{"id":7547,"date":"2021-07-02T10:39:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T09:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/lily-beetle-advice\/"},"modified":"2021-07-04T13:10:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T12:10:59","slug":"lily-beetle-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/lily-beetle-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Lily Beetle Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This question was asked by <span class=\"hubmaster_faq_author\"><br \/>\n&#8211; <em>Glenys &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"hubmaster_faq_blockquote\"><p>Hi, I am a lover of lilies but alas, so many succumb to the dreaded lily beetle. Apart from picking them off by hand which is never ending with the many that I grow, can you advise on any beetle resistant lilies and what sprays can be used\/home made possibly, bearing in mind that I garden organically.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your help, Glenys<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"hubmaster_faq_answer\">You could try our lily beetle prevention spray which is environmentally friendly or you could make up your own garlic solution. Crush a whole corm of garlic in a small pan of boiling water. Allow to cool, strain and put in a small container in the fridge. When using, dilute three parts water to one part garlic solution. Spray often, every few days, especially when it has rained. There is a garlic product available in garden centres and stores, but this is a much cheaper alternative.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/10-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Lily beetle\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/10-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/10-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/10-453x300.jpg 453w, https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/10.jpg 906w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"hubmaster_faq_editor\">The Hart Family<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You could try our lily beetle prevention spray which is environmentally friendly.. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/lily-beetle-advice\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,106,301,125,24,101,56,107,330,96,122],"tags":[453,232],"class_list":["post-7547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faq","category-lilies","category-lillies","category-lily-beetle","category-lily-bulbs","category-lily-care","category-newsletter","category-oriental-lilies","category-oriental-trumpet-lilies","category-pots","category-roselilies","tag-c255","tag-faq"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/10.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7562,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7547\/revisions\/7562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartsnursery.co.uk\/lily-info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}