The fishing line trick is simple, easy, cheap, and can be used to protect anything from an individual plant to a whole garden. It’s also the most effective method we’ve used to protect our own edible landscape, and we know lots of people who’ve had similar success.Thus, the fishing...
How To Control Aphids Organically Aphids, family name Aphididae, are a common pest to gardeners, commercial growers and greenhouses due to their wide species diversity and rapid reproductive cycle. There are some 1,351 species of aphids currently recorded in the US and Canada, of which about ...
Flea beetlesare tiny pests that are dark in color, with a shiny, iridescent carapace. They jump like fleas when disturbed, earning the name flea beetles. Use floating row covers; mulch deeply around plants. Use diatomaceous earth or Neem oil to control the population. Leaves with large chew ...
During years when Japanese beetles are abundant, they will do some leaf damage to our trees, but not enough for us to bother intervening. The beetles seem to much prefer our grape leaves and anything in the stone fruit family. (Read:How to control Japanese beetles organically.) Please grow ...
Japanese beetles, and Colorado potato beetles and larvae. You can also use chicken to remove slugs, snails weed seeds etc, from spoiled hay before using as mulch, or compost. Chickens and Pest Control: While everything seems so perfectly matched there is one little problem. The thing with ch...
Japanese beetles are the beetles that pester roses the most. They are easy to spot thanks to their iridescent green bodies and copper-colored wing covers. They feed during the day using their chewing mouthparts to chow down on the roses themselves as well as the rosebuds and leaves. Look for...
Larger holes could be Japanese beetles or Lygus bugs, and both can cause serious damage if left to their own devices. Aphids can also cause damage by sucking out the plant's juices if allowed to stay on the plant. Amaranth are often used as a pest-trapping plant as aphids are drawn ...
KN-Bravois a hybrid purple radish that is purple and white inside. The radishes grow 4 to 6 inches tall and up to 3 inches wide. This variety matures in 49 days. Miyashigeis an open-pollinated Japanese daikon radish that looks like a large white carrot. The radishes grow to be 16 to...
Aphids are drawn by the sweet smelling blossoms and stick around to eat the leaves, and Japanese beetles are particularly fond of the plants as well. There are other insects to be wary of, but these two are the major pests you will have to deal with. Dealing with these pests can be ...
economical 50-pound bags(it lasts indefinitely if kept dry), and I use it in the garden to successfully kill or deter everything from sow bugs and cabbage worms to those ravenousblister beetles(you can read aboutmore ways we use it here). I'm hoping it will also help with the squash ...