Oenanthe javanica
Growing calendar
Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.
Guides
- How to Plant Water Dropwort (Water Celery) in Wet Ground
- Water Dropwort Care: Keeping It Wet, Cut and Inside Its Bounds
- Harvesting Water Dropwort: How to Cut It So It Keeps Regrowing
- Growing Water Dropwort in a Pot Standing in Water
- Water Dropwort Through the Year: Season by Season Jobs
- Water Dropwort Dangers, Pests and Problems to Watch For
Common problems
Start from what you can see on the plant.
Pests and diseases (3)
Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.
Swallowtail Caterpillar
MajorPest
Leaves are eaten away from the base leaving only bare stalks. A single large caterpillar can strip an entire plant bare.
Aphids
CommonPest
Small green or black insects cluster on shoot tips and leaf undersides, crinkling the leaves and stopping growth. The honeydew they excrete supports sooty mold that blackens the foliage.
Slugs
CommonPest
Irregular holes are chewed in leaves and fruit with glistening slime trails nearby. By day they hide under pots and bricks or in dead leaves at the base of the plant.