PURPLE POOP ON MY MARBLE TABLE

If there is one thing I resent in my garden, it is the caterpillars gnawing on my hanging baskets' sapphire lobelia and pooping purple on my wonderfully divine marble table top.  Stop it or be squashed!

I've had to move the table out from under the hanging baskets.  I know it is the purple poop that is doing it and not just the flowers themselves as the problem has only just started. 

Million Bells on marble table

I bought an expensive marble cleaner and a marble sealer last year from http://www.sealer-seal-sealant.co.uk/.  The products are actually made by Tikko  http://www.tikkoproducts.com/)  

When you are lucky enough to find yourself a table so pretty, (Marks & Spencers, 2007) it is a pity to let it spoil.  At the cost of about £30-40 for two 1 litre bottles, it is a good thing that the products do a really good job.  You only need to use a little bit so it will last for years - hopefully!

I am really pleased with the Million Bells plant which is on the table.  I bought it from the RHS Centre in Harlow Carr, at a grand price of £12.50, but it has bloomed and bloomed and then some ever since and it shows no sign of giving up.  It self-cleans so there is no need to dead-heading.  Worth every penny, I think.

Million Vwlla

Getting back to the subject of pesky caterpillars, look what pesky slugs have done to my lettuce. 

This means war!