﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!--RSS Genrated: Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:04:29 GMT--><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Nichol's Garden Group - Insects, Pests, &amp; Disease</title><link>https://www.nichols.co.nz:443/Garden-Centre/Articles-News/ctl/RSS/mid/982/ev/1/CategoryID/25/CategoryName/Insects-Pests-Disease</link><atom:link href="https://www.nichols.co.nz:443/Garden-Centre/Articles-News/ctl/RSS/mid/982/ev/1/CategoryID/25/CategoryName/Insects-Pests-Disease" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><description>RSS document</description><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hamish ]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Attracting Ladybugs]]></title><link>https://www.nichols.co.nz/Garden-Centre/Articles-News/ArtMID/982/ArticleID/161/Attracting-Ladybugs</link><description><![CDATA[ How to Attract Ladybugs to the Garden! 

 The number one thing that will help attract ladybugs to your garden is food. Ladybugs eat two things: insect pests and pollen. They need both to survive ...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:52:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.nichols.co.nz/Garden-Centre/Articles-News/ArtMID/982/ArticleID/161/Attracting-Ladybugs</guid></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hamish ]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Vegetables: Pest & Disease Control]]></title><link>https://www.nichols.co.nz/Garden-Centre/Articles-News/ArtMID/982/ArticleID/140/Vegetables-Pest-Disease-Control</link><description><![CDATA[   Pest & Disease Control in Vegetables    

 The organic gardening philosophy is to let nature take its course, for all organisms to live in balance and therefore accept a level of pest and ...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2023 02:38:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.nichols.co.nz/Garden-Centre/Articles-News/ArtMID/982/ArticleID/140/Vegetables-Pest-Disease-Control</guid></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nichol's Group]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Quashing Slugs & Snails!]]></title><link>https://www.nichols.co.nz/Garden-Centre/Articles-News/ArtMID/982/ArticleID/125/Quashing-Slugs-Snails</link><description><![CDATA[ Have slugs and snails been munching on your carefully tended seedlings and plants, before you even get a chance to enjoy them? With the active ingredient, Iron EDTA Complex,    Tui Quash    is a ...]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2020 05:25:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.nichols.co.nz/Garden-Centre/Articles-News/ArtMID/982/ArticleID/125/Quashing-Slugs-Snails</guid></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nichol's Group]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Fruit Pests & Disease Control]]></title><link>https://www.nichols.co.nz/Garden-Centre/Articles-News/ArtMID/982/ArticleID/78/Fruit-Pests-Disease-Control</link><description><![CDATA[ Pests and diseases can be managed through adopting good growing practices, planting resistant varieties and using low-toxicity, environmentally-friendly products. 

 The organic gardening ...]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2020 01:32:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.nichols.co.nz/Garden-Centre/Articles-News/ArtMID/982/ArticleID/78/Fruit-Pests-Disease-Control</guid></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Anonym]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[Tomato Trouble Shooting]]></title><link>https://www.nichols.co.nz/Garden-Centre/Articles-News/ArtMID/982/ArticleID/48/Tomato-Trouble-Shooting</link><description><![CDATA[ Nothing beats the taste of a fresh, homegrown tomato - especially compared it to supermarket varieties, and this is often why 90% of home-gardeners grow tomatoes. Many gardeners encounter tomato ...]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2019 03:20:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.nichols.co.nz/Garden-Centre/Articles-News/ArtMID/982/ArticleID/48/Tomato-Trouble-Shooting</guid></item><item><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nichol's Group]]></dc:creator><title><![CDATA[What is Club Root Disease?]]></title><link>https://www.nichols.co.nz/Garden-Centre/Articles-News/ArtMID/982/ArticleID/79/What-is-Club-Root-Disease</link><description><![CDATA[ Club Root is a disease that most commonly affects the brassicas cabbage and turnip families in your vegetable garden. Caused by a soil-bourne fungus  Plasmodiophora brassicae  that infects ...]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2019 04:24:00 GMT</pubDate><guid>https://www.nichols.co.nz/Garden-Centre/Articles-News/ArtMID/982/ArticleID/79/What-is-Club-Root-Disease</guid></item></channel></rss>