Information about garden pests and how to get rid of them.
Insects are a serious issue for many backyard gardeners. Some different kinds of pests may ruin a plants. For a few garden pests it will only take a couple of hours!
We’re going to look at some of the most common veggie garden pests.
We will also check out how to recognize them, and a method for getting eliminate them all.
1. Garden Pest: Aphids
The Aphid is an extremely common vegetable garden pest in most places. You’ll most often see groups of these tiny almost transparent bodied insects in a variety of colours.
You may find Aphids that are pink or red.
To Rid Your Vegetable Garden of Aphids
1. One method for ridding your garden of Aphids is to pick them off the plants manually. It works but is very time consuming.
2. One method for getting rid of Aphids is to use Neem Oil or an insecticidal soap.
3. My favourite method for getting rid of Aphids and other pests in your vegetable garden is by using Lady Bugs.
2. Garden Pest: Beetles
To start with there are a lot of beetles which like to infest your veggie gardens. There are specific beetles for most veggies, like potato beetles. There are a lot of beetles which means you’re going to need to focus on each type of beetle for the remedy that will get rid of them.
Beetles are can be quite the pain for your plant leaves as they can do a lot of damage in a short time making it really important to get rid of them immediately.
Like other vegetable garden pests you could pick them off one at a time. That’s fine when you’re out in the yard working and see one or two but if you have an infestation you can turn to sprays and insecticides which poison them.
3. Garden Pest: Borers
I didn’t know anything about borers until I noticed one of my zucchinni plants not doing so well. Upon closer inspection I noticed a split in the main stalk showing part of a fat little pest.
You’ll notice the leaves start to wilt, and you may find a hole in the stem where they bore into the plant. I wasn’t completely sure what to do so I stuck this guy real good, making sure it was dead.
4. Garden Pest: Grubs
I noticed my strawberries, on the north side of our property, weren’t doing so well. I decided to transplant some to the south side of the yard where they would get a lot more direct sun. That’s when I discovered dozens of big fat white grubs hiding under my strawberries. I am sure I found at least one with each shovel full of dirt.
Beetle grubs dig through the dirt, munchinging on roots and veggie matter. The grubs consume the spores along with particles of soil and other material. The spores germinate inside the grubs, and multiply rapidly in their blood. When the bacteria become very numerous in the blood they again form spores, completing the bacterial cycle.
5. Garden Pest: Cutworms
Cutworms usually cut off the plant stem at the base of the plant. The only effective way to control these is to use a paper collar on your plants about an inch below and above ground level. These bugs usually infest cabbages, peppers, and tomatoes.
6. Garden Pest: Corn Earworm
Corn earworms will eat the kernels off of the cobs while the corn is still on the stalk.
Use a couple of drops of mineral or corn oil right on the top of the ear where the silk is. This may cause the tip to turn brown but we just cut the tip off and enjoy the rest, which is just fine. Destroy the entire plant at the end of the season, even the root so they won’t come back next year.
7. Garden Pest: Slugs
Slugs and snails leave nasty slime trails on plants and eat plant leaves. They are especially destructive to cabbage, lettuce, tomatoes, turnips, and carrots. You can buy bait to kill them, but placing a shallow pan of beer in your garden should attract them and drown them.
8. Garden Pest: Tomato Hornworm
Tomato hornworms are one of the scariest looking garden pests. They eat the leaves and fruits of tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants. They are large, fat, green and white worms that look like caterpillars.
They have a large horn that looks like a stinger. You can remove them with gloved hands and drown them in soapy water. You can also spray with neem oil, stomach poison insecticide, or Bacillus thuringiensis.
We have only been vegetable gardening for a few years but each year we learn more about getting rid of garden pests.
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