phorbin wrote:
songbird says...

so as a magnet crop (attract the bugs away from
the other surrounding plants where you can pick
them off) edamame soybeans sure look to be good.
all the surrounding bean plants had minimal damage
(probably most of it from grasshoppers) and the
soybeans were getting chewed up.

Use evening primrose as a trap crop for japanese beetles.

uhg! sorry, no more primroses here, there are wild
ones rambling around, and we accidentally planted some
brighter yellow with a great smell once, but those were
too much and we took them out (three years of weeding
later i think they are gone, but don't quote me on that).

thanks, but i think i'll stick to the more easily
managed edamame soybeans.


songbird