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a bribe seems to be working
T wrote:
.... Speaking of bribes, my eggplant's leaves where just skeletons with the leaf part missing. Couldn't figure out who was eating them. Then one fateful night watering, I discovered it was the stinking earwigs. Many have lost their lives since then. And my leaves have recovered. when the beans first sprout there is some creature that puts holes in the leaves. i've never bothered to find out what it actually is because the plants outgrow their ability to do much damage. it's never killed a plant that i've noticed. i am all for live-and-let-live if i can get some sort of harvest. if i'm lucky i will have a few seeds from the Edamame plants... Those stinkers sure do love eggplant. And I know where to find them at night. Sort of like catnip for earwigs. In the day, they love under my bag of peat moss. So every afternoon, I rattle the bag and stomp away. Down to one yesterday, from about 200 a few weeks ago. A carnage ensued. Death to Earwigs! some people make traps for them out of upside down pots full of straw stuck on poles. i've never tried that. really, i don't think i've seen them in the gardens here much at all. for snails and slugs the idea is similar to what you are doing. put down boards along the areas where they are damaging plants and then go out early in the morning and flip the boards and remove any snails or slugs. we have not had much of a problem from either of those too. i really like having a functioning ecosystem i just wish we had a few more top predators for deer, wabbits and chippiemunks. ah, well, today gotta get out and pick some more cucumbers. hope there's enough to make some more dill pickles. songbird |
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