In my garden I am growing cucumbers, radishes/carrots, lettuce, peas, green beans, tomatoes and peppers. The green beans are in the center row. They are also the ONLY thing that is getting eaten by a something. None of the other plants are. Three days ago, they all had leaves. Yesterday about 1/2 had lost the leaves and this morning, NONE had leaves. I live in a rural area so I know its not human. This is going to destroy my crop. What can I do about this?
Serious replies only please. Living in the country so I realize I have critters but this is just odd.
Thanks
pcbeachrat2008-06-24T11:13:23Z
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It isnt deer as suggested..it is snails and slugs..they love green beans the most...
Deer are the only critters I know which will eat plants that way. And they're selective, until they get real hungry. and then they'll eat all the plants. I finally put up an electric fence as that was the only way to keep them out.
Hornets consume the undesirable bugs. solid friends, hornets are. bill bugs consume flowers and a lot of them can do injury. Foil around the soil around the flowers can repel slugs. Ash can kill them. Yeast and water can too. The cucumber flowers are generic. The cucumbers will improve alongside the vines. they are able to be staked. The tomatoes could be staked with in spite of you have. Sticks and string or comfortable twine or bread wires will artwork. perhaps the fence. The white cabbage moth lays eggs that become larvae, worms and loppers, and that they consume the plant. they are able to be hand picked off and dropped into soapy water. Spraying some BT, bacteria thuringiensis on the eggs will kill them. The worms feed at night. putting a board on the threshold of the flowers will draw slugs and bugs under it in the process the night. Early interior the morning you raise the board up and there could desire to be some bugs under it. Even some tablet bugs. tablet bugs choose to get under issues and stay moist. .