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Bugs eating my garden!! Please help!!?
There are bugs eating the leaves of my bell pepper plant, my jalapeno plant, my sage, & tomato plants….how do I get rid of them without using heavy insecticide? I wanted to try all natural pesticides, like beer for slugs and snails, I planted marigolds among the veggies, and sprayed the leaves with soapy water. All to no avail. Please help me save my plants!
4 Answers
- Garden InspireLv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
Without seeing a photo it would have to be a wild guess. Does the damage look the same on all your plants? Have you had hail or some other weather lately that could be related?
The only thing that comes to mind that would eat all of those is slugs. Try an iron phosphate slug killer - Slug Out is one - safe for animals and people (except slugs and snails). If you have bits of hair, crushed eggshells, and/or sharp sand that you could place around your plants that also repels them. Diatomaceous Earth (from a garden center - not the swimming pool kind) can be put right on the plants to kill slugs. It will kill other insects and only works if dry so don't use it right before rain or watering.
If it isn't slugs and is an insect you could try a garlic spray, neem oil, or if it is under 80 F a horticultural oil spray.
I only garden organically and have for over 20 years.
- 1 decade ago
Sounds like grub worms and horn worms. Try sevin dust. Just sprinkle the dust lightly on the leaves.
For snails, your beer idea works in a bowl buried so the rim is at at ground level. Make a small collar about 1" wide out of newspaper and wrap it around the main stem of your pepper plants at ground level. Hopefully the grubs will stay out.
Hornworms are large and can be hand picked off the tomato plants and discarded.
- jordanaLv 45 years ago
Get some DE diatamaceous earth it relatively is thoroughly non poisonous you are able to as properly sprinkle it on pets nutrition to kill inner parasites, it absorbs each and all of the moisture out of bugs bodies leaving in straightforward terms an exoskeleton ,keeps on working till rain washes away seek for it in backyard centers or feed shops, it relatively is a powder good success from Texas
- TexpersonLv 71 decade ago
Try some insecticidal soap. Sold at Lowe's in the same place as chemical insecticides but it's organic and works pretty well.