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 Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 5:31 am
I've had something mysterious eating away at my spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, & cabbage plants. I made a beer trap last night in the hopes of catching slugs & snails, but no dice.
(a beer trap is where you immerse a container in the ground and fill it with beer. The slugs and snails are attracted to the sweet scent and fall in and drown)
Right now, I'm planning on making a basic garlic/hot pepper spray that is often used as a catch-all pest deterrent. There's little I can do now besides finding a solution. I have two of each of the broccoli and cauliflowers left out of six and the spinach is so damaged that I probably won't be getting anything from it.
What do you guys use to deter those bugs that decide your vegetables are that night's main course?
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Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 6:08 pm
Seven dust, works for me we have caterpillars.
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Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 5:49 am
So you play loud rock music to deter them? hmm.. wink
EDIT: I looked it up and I was more interested in organic solutions than straight up pesticides. I don't think I want to be exposing that to my vegetables.
Carbaryl (the chemical the dust is made of) is also acutely toxic to honeybees and can destroy colonies of bees that are foraging in an area where the chemical has been applied.
http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/facts-slides-self/facts/gen-pubre-sevin.html
http://extoxnet.orst.edu/pips/carbaryl.htm
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Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 8:37 pm
I like throwing together all the hot things in my kitchen together. I've smushed up chili peppers, cayenne, garlic and various other 'red' things. I put them together in a bowl with hot water and let it marinate. Just watch it - I gunked up a spray bottle with the pepper bits.
Worked well on one indoor plant. Neem oil also works too.
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 6:49 am
Yeah I ended up boiling some habaneros with garlic and then combining that with some doc. bronner's in a spray bottle. It seems to have halted the damage. I heard that hot pepper sprays stop the bugs from eating your plants but don't kill them.
p.s. your avatar is pretty pirhan.
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 4:43 pm
onicoe Yeah I ended up boiling some habaneros with garlic and then combining that with some doc. bronner's in a spray bottle. It seems to have halted the damage. I heard that hot pepper sprays stop the bugs from eating your plants but don't kill them. p.s. your avatar is pretty pirhan. Thanks! whee I'm glad to hear that the concoction worked for you. Never heard of Doc Bronner... I think I'm try that on my constantly infested jasmine plant. Is this the particular product you used? http://www.drbronner.com/DBMS/SAL.htm
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 7:21 pm
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 8:29 pm
Poifect. I think I have seen that around - I'll look at it again if I see it. :3
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 10:39 pm
Something's been nibbling the flowers off my pansies. All my pansy's are little nibs of colour. gonk
I don't have the soap, but I'm going to put some garlic and cayenne pepper together and see what that does. I'll keep you posted :3
Edit: You need to tell me your secret of not having the spray bottle gunk up.
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Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 9:07 pm
I speak to the spray bottle in tongues and when that fails I throw it on the ground.
Seriously, my bottle doesn't gunk up. Did you put only the liquid in? I pick out the peppers and garlic.
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 1:45 pm
onicoe I speak to the spray bottle in tongues and when that fails I throw it on the ground. ! Mine's probably gunking up because I pour all the stuff into the bottle. I'll strain in tonight in some cheese cloth (I'm sure it's pretty potent now) and try again. It rained the night that I sprayed my pansies, so I've got to do it again. (Though, all the remaining blooms are nibble free.)
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