Help! Earwigs still eating my clems
LauraOP
18 years ago
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whats eating my clems ?
Comments (1)Earwigs. Look for old posts about them. Lots of useful info there. Hard to say what is wrong with your NM without more details....See MoreSomething STILL eating my plants
Comments (9)Last two summers somehow I had no slugs or caterpillars. I had aphids but I was able to control them. When the heat seems to remain in the 90s daily I stretch 40% shade cloth over my garden and with that I continue harvesting tomatoes, cukes, peppers, sweet potatoes & eggplants. Tomatoes and cukes slow down during that time. I love growing my own veggies. Up north I had a 1/4 acre garden where I grew pretty much all our veggies. No slugs, cutworms, beetles. The winters kept them under control. Sometimes, like right now, I look at my poor plants full of holes and wish I lived back north. Of course that only lasts until their temps dip below 50 or lower when they have snow and ice. Sigh…I can't have it all....See MoreBugs (earwigs) eating all my plants
Comments (5)Have you gone out at night Janet to inspect the plants and verify what is doing the damage? Sure it could be earwigs but it could just as easily be slugs or some of the night feeding beetles. And the controls for each is different and works in different ways. There is no such thing as a one-for-all pesticide, much less a systemic pesticide, that is approved for use on food crops. That is why one must first ID the actual culprit rather than just guess. Earwigs are a good example of why you have to use specific controls and why they have to be used on the area surrounding the garden rather than the plants themselves. They spend most of their lives several inches deep in the soil where only a few restricted use commercial lawn products can get to them. Slugs are a little easier to control with any of the iron phosphate products like Sluggo. Beetles require either direct contact or a poison they eat to be killed. So grab a flashlight and do some after dark examining of the plants to see who the bad guy truly is. Then you can go from there. Dave...See MoreHELP - can I still eat my garden vegetables?
Comments (14)I will use Sevin only when it is appropriate and well thought out and it has saved my plants on a few occasions, early in the season when the pests are high and the beneficials and pollinators (and edible fruit for that matter) are MIA, and it is one of the more benign things you can spray in your garden. It is only when it is sprayed profilactically and without any consideration that it deserves some of the extreme stigma it gets. Many who stigmatize Sevin then go on to douse their tomato plants -- and tomatoes! -- in Daconil, or spray copper on a frequent basis in contradiction to the labelling, or spray pyrethrins which while considered organic are in fact chemical and have potential negative human health consequences and have even killed someone just from a single use, as well as environmental effects, etc. Unless you are strictly organic and won't eat conventional produce, go ahead and eat your veggies, whatever you would buy in the supermarket would be far worse....See Moresuzymac
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