| White rust and leaf eelworm affects chrysanthemums, while whitefly, red spider mite and mealybugs love basking in the heat of greenhouses and conservatories. |
| On any allotment you'll soon find someone convinced that potatoes must be planted on Good Friday, that garlic keeps aphids away, or that human hair wards off eelworm. |
| They have added a gene to the potato's roots that is designed to give it resistance to eelworm – which costs British farmers around £645m a year in lost yields and pesticide costs. |
| Lift stunted potato plants to check roots for signs of potato cyst eelworm. |
| Groundsel and chickweed in particular should be removed from around growing chrysanthemums as they are host plants for the chrysanthemum eelworm. |
| Pentland Javelin is an easy to grow eelworm resistant, for boiling and salads, and maris peer is a high quality second early, versatile and firm textured. |
