Biggest pest and disease problems 2022-24 revealed

Enquiries submitted to the RHS Gardening Advice Service "provide a valuable baseline for understanding current pests and diseases affecting UK gardens".

slug

Slugs have been traditionally the most complained about pest, though the RHS stopped publishing the annual list after 2022. A new list has now appeared in the RHS State of Gardening report.

While slug control products ran out in the wet 2024, sales in the dry year of 2025 were slower.

2022-24 RHS data

See report and methodology here


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