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Summer vegetable gardens and bugs.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 12:05 am
Posted on 6/25/17 at 12:05 am
I'm trying a summer vegetable garden again this year and am looking for suggestions on bug resistant plants. My spring tomatoes and watermelon are getting torn up by leaf miners. Last summer I had good luck with sweet potatoes, okra, and peppers- almost no bug problems. I want to plant 1 or 2 more vegetables that I don't have to spray weekly. I'm in south Louisiana (Lafayette).
This post was edited on 6/25/17 at 12:08 am
Posted on 6/25/17 at 12:20 am to jwsnatic
I haven't found any type of plant that you don't have to spray weekly in the deep south. just get yourself something like 7 dust or liquid 7 that is not very toxic and apply it. if you don't, your plants will get eaten to the ground.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 3:13 am to Spankum
Found my first cutter worms on my tomato plants today.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 12:39 pm to TigernMS12
all of the rain isnt helping, I have had good results with diatamaceous earth, but it has been too wet
Posted on 6/25/17 at 2:27 pm to jwsnatic
I'm not in Louisiana anymore but I've had good luck with cedar mulch. Bugs don't like it and it smells nice.
Posted on 6/25/17 at 2:28 pm to jwsnatic
Hard to control them inside the leaf. Best to pick the leaf off and either burn or somehow destroy the leaf also killing the bug and stopping the life cycle. Visit your garden early in the morning before the dew has lifted. Will catch many of these pests out in the open. I carried a spray bottle with Dawn soap and water. A quick squirt and the were dead.
You can dust your plants like the other poster said. However also know that you need about a week to flush your plants of any toxins after you poison. Sevin does not discriminate. It will kill ladybugs and spiders who naturally feed on these pests. Will also decimate a honey bee colony after they carry it back to their hive.
You can dust your plants like the other poster said. However also know that you need about a week to flush your plants of any toxins after you poison. Sevin does not discriminate. It will kill ladybugs and spiders who naturally feed on these pests. Will also decimate a honey bee colony after they carry it back to their hive.
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