Big Holes in my Pepper Leaves , What I’m Doing About It & Surprise Harvest
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- There are big holes in my pepper leaves, here’s what I’m doing about it. Any tips to share? Stay tuned for a surprise harvest at the end!
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CaliKim29 Garden & Home DIY where can I get that bug sprayer ?
CaliKim29 Garden & Home DIY It was hail damage from the storm last Wednesday.
CaliKim29 Garden & Home DIY hi kim,have you ruled out spider mites
CaliKim29 Garden & Home DIY I was getting holes in my leaves similar to yours. I set beer traps. Just a couple containers of beer 🍺 at soil level overnight. The next morning I was shocked at the number of slugs I trapped!
I have similar holes and have found cutworms curled up around and in my plants. I sprayed with BT and it has helped a lot!
Hey kim, so i have this friend, shes 104 and knows alll about these bugs and stuff...she recommended that i pick actual neem leaves and put them around the roots of my peppers..the results have been astounding
Where can locate neem leaves?
I live in Fl. where slugs and snails are a HUGE problem as soon as the cold weather is over with. If that's what is doing it, when they were chewing up my peace lilly, I took a length of Romex three wire, about 14 gauge, stripped the outer sheath off, stripped each inner sheath, and took the bare copper wire and made a complete OVERLAPPING circle around the base of the plant. The copper somehow shocks the wet bodies of the snails and/or slugs, and it will stop them in their tracks. Make sure all the wire is flush with and touching the ground around the plant, and be sure to cut your wire long enough so that the ends will meet or overlap. You only need to go around once, but if you have an abundance of wire, go around and around! It does not have to be the big solid wire. You can also use the fine strand type, sometimes it's even better because it's much more flexible, and you can use more without struggling with big wires. Anyway, all this works great.....if it's slugs! Hope this helps.
I use cinnamon for EVERYTHING!!! You will be amazed at what it does. It works on insects, armidillos, and all rodents. Slugs hate it. It's my go to and it's cheap!!! Check it out! So far it's all I use. Rabbits hate it.😎
Julie Rowdon Do you just sprinkle/shake it on? I would like to try
@@BossLdie84 I shake it on the plant and on the ground around the plant. I also make a perimeter around the garden.😉
I sprinkle cinnamon on soil when I just plant my seeds to fend off fungus gnats but must try on my actual plants now as they have a lot of holes!
Yes Sluggo Plus is my first line of defense against insects damaging my vegetables or flowers but I do back it up with Gary’s Neem oil too! This year I have also noticed the number of ants is way down😀 Your videos are very inspirational and informative love them.😍
Last year my pepper plants in my garden bed had holes in them and eventually died. I ended up planting from seeds in containers on my deck. I was so pleased with my pepper harvest. I did see a slug this morning on my asiatic lily plant and whatever residue these slugs release ruined my plant. The neem oil I sprayed was too strong for my tomato plants. So I have been using a simple water spray to get rid of the aphids and mites on my plants. Honestly you are my biggest inspiration and to go garden expert the last four years. I discovered Gary later and his methods are so helpful too especially with living in zone 7. You two rock!
I have holes just like that in my peppers. I’ve also been trying to figure out what’s causing it. No answers yet.
I love the coffee walk idea. I usually walk every morning anyway. Now I will take my coffee with me. 😊
Hi Kim!! I have that sometimes on my peppers, I use coffee grounds in my garden just sprinkle around the base of your plants and it has helped me a lot, save your coffee grounds, they are so good for your garden, hopes this helps :)
Hi there
CaliKim well you and Gary are my go to for info I live in Nebraska and yes we're getting a hell of a lot of rain here a lot of flooding , we've got some garden planted but it's been a struggle hoping for dry weather soon and some sun , hope you get your hole in leaf figured out , have a great day God bless :)
I just love seeing your garden 😘💕💕
Sorry to hear about your peppers. I learn from you, Gary and Jess. You guys are my go to people. The scarlot runner beans came in the other day so all I have to do is wait for spring now. Love your sunflower. I got my seeds for the giant sunflowers the other day also. My introduction to them was when I was 10 and I met my grandmother for the first time in her little village overseas. She was so tall, I remember looking up and up and up. The sunflowers were as tall as she was. I found out later that she was 6" 4'' . I got the seeds in remembrance of her. Even though we couldn't communicate in the same language, I could see the love and pride in her eyes. That's it for me today. Thanks for sharing. Blessings
Love neem oil! Points to consider, though...the oil acts like a ‘tanning oil,’ so best used in the evening to avoid burning your plants. The side benefit is that the oil will be dry before the bees are active in the morning. Neem isn’t good for the bees. I’d also suggest diatomaceous earth (DE) for the slugs. It’s probably much cheaper than the sluggo stuff. You may also consider a water feature to bring in toads. They’re the best weapon against slugs and the evening symphony is the best!
I'd have to say watching your videos has helped me learn a lot, such as the worm castings, how to space peppers, etc. Also learning from other peoples comments on your videos and the chat on Mondays. I do have a couple of close friends who are gardeners as well. How wonderful we can all learn from each other!
Aphids are repeatedly attacking my peppers. They are only now just barely starting to recover and form flowers. I have pepper plants in multiple places in my yard and the aphids specifically go for the peppers for some reason. We also have slugs (sluggo plus is the best), white flies and of course caterpillars! It’s a daily battle, but it’s worth it!
How enjoyable to do the coffee walks! I'm sure its encouraging and a great opportunity to enjoy the fresh air and find things to be excited about! Hopefully you can conquer the pepper problem. Yesterday I set up a raised bed, now I need to fill it. I bought it through home hardware. It's made of food grade white pvc type material, is 3 feet x 5 feet, and has whats called a keyhole for composting. The raised bed/composting is something new for me and I'm excited to try it.
Kim, I have a tone of holes in my pepper leaves. I will try all of your recommendation's. Thanks
I love walking with you on your morning coffee walks very interesting and beautiful that time of the morning. I am always up outdoors 5:00 am every morning seven days a week. Love your videos so refreshing and interesting.
Mine are in pots on my balcony ledge and I get these on my pepper plants.
Hi Calikim29! Yes it’s so nice to finally have sun again in Cali. That random run of rain and cold weather was unusual. I don’t have holes in the leaves of my pepper plants but I have aphids so I just ran to our local nursery and got some ladybugs! As backup for later, if needed I’m going to try spraying with Neem oil. I hear it helps. Good luck!
Hi Kim
My name is " My" and I'm a gardener from Las Vegas. So I've been having the same problem with my pepper plants this year. I went out at night with a flashlight to look what's eating my plants so I found this big black worms chewing on my tomato plants ( I think they're cut worms. And slugs all over my pepper plants. So I'm sure those are slugs chewing on your pepper plants. I try Slugo plus but it didn't work for me cause there's too much of them. Someone told me to put beer around the garden and that will attract the slugs . They crawl in and get drown, but don't fill it all the way cause they need to crawl in. Good luck
We are having all of our plants munched on and for us it is earwigs. We have an excessive amount of earwigs, caught them swarming my onions. The Sluggo Plus has been working well with newspaper traps. Will try adding the neem oil in.
Insects and pests are all over in FLORIDA every summer and I'm using neem oil too and my latest discovery which is water with mouthwash spray.
Still early in the game for the peppers..put my Ohio vegetable plants in the ground juss a couple days ago. Stood-up a cattle panel on end like Miss CaliKim does for a trellis even..!!..Thanks & enjoy..The flowers look Super..!! Love KC !!
I have horrible trouble with caterpillars eating holes in everything... Leaves, tomatoes, zucchini, cabbage, kale, flowers, yellow squash, everything!! I have been using the BT to try and deter them, but it only somewhat slows them down.. 😔 my husband said I have the most caterpillar producing garden he has ever seen! LOL. oh, I am in zone 8b in Fl. Love, love, love your videos!! Thabjs for all of the encouragement and information that you provide on a regular basis ! I hope you have a great day!!
I'm in zone 8 NC. Those caterpillars can be ruthless! Get you some BT(Bacillus thuringiensis)for cabbage worms is what it is. Mix as directed, its organic, and spray top and bottom of leaves on plants. Make sure not to do it in the heat of the day. Early morning or evening is best. It's awesome stuff and actually works!
I put 1cup water in a pot, throw in 5 chopped up garlic cloves, & tb spoon of hot pepper flakes, bring to a boil & stir, then let it sit for at least a couple hours. Then I secure a washcloth around the top of a cup with a rubber band & pour the mixture over top so it drains into the cup w/out all the chunks. I pour it into a 1/2 liter spray bottle, drop in a few drops of peppermint essential oil & teaspoon dish soap. Fill up the rest of the bottle with water, then shake it all up. Seems to work really well so far & granddaddy longleg spiders dont seem to be bothered by it (they’re still hiding out all over my plants, its a good thing).
Make sure you turn your head when spraying or a breeze might blow the spray into your face. I learned that the hard way lol!
Thanks from NOHO CA. Im out now and was out last night individually pitching earwigs off my leafs. I put cat food cans down flush with the soil filled with vegetable oil. The cans are full of earwigs! Thats whats going on here for me I have caught 2 Caterpillars on my tomatoes so far but I believe the holes are from earwigs. I took inspiration from your salsa garden and planted my own "salad bowl" on Monday using the same type of planter. I've got a ton of them love them!
I’m in noho also!!! Hi neighbor 🙋🏻♀️
I agree with Gary looks like snug damage....could also be cabbage moth larvae. I found a few of those in my garden recently the larvae are on the bottom of the leaves typically; most of the time on lettuces and brassica plants, but you never know.
could be earwigs. they come out at night I've had that problem before. come out with a flashlight after Dark a few times and look under your leaves and all around your plant. I think Sluggo kills earwigs also.
I go to various groups on facebook depending on the need... I am in multiple including a roots & refuge group, MIGardner group, pepperhead group, and others.
Hammer-Bear O'Sullivan thank you for this tip! I haven’t joined any Facebook groups yet. So far I’ve only followed local gardeners on instagrams.
I had the same thing on some strawberry plants. I went out at night to find earwigs all over the plants. A little organic soap took care of them.
Same thing was happening to my Ichiban Eggplant but worse; was just getting destroyed. Finally on Monday I caught the caterpillar that was doing it; had to go out right after sundown to catch it (I found it on the soil near the plant). My pepper plants that are right next to the eggplants have a few holes like yours and I'm going to do the same with them because there isn't anything on them during the day. If I can't catch anything, neem oil is the next step.
I have big holes like that and the other day I found a caterpillar on my peppers
I read a comment (maybe on Gary's video?) about burying a container with beer. I haven't tried it but I've been meaning to. It'll be a good excuse to get beer, lol. My peppers are ok, but my kohlrabi has taken a beating. Sluggo seems to slow it down.
I love your beans, Kim!! Can't wait for my pole beans to look like yours. So far I still only have seedlings of pole and bush beans.
Great video as always. Great looking garden and tour.
In working with peppers like this over the years I have found neem oil to work well with various types of bug coverage.
Excellent! I love & like gardening, u inspired me a lot...
Another garden friend just told me about huge holes and she discovered that she had crickets. So it may be crickets or grasshoppers. A garlic spray may deter them as they dont like bitter leaves.
I got the Scarlet Runner Bean seeds from you. They sprouted quickly (and hugely!) in the Jiffy pots. I then transplanted to the solo cups and then into my greenhouse for hardening off when flowers started to appear while still indoors! I think I did that too early and they went into temperature shock. I put them in the ground anyway to see what would happen. I was away for a week and came back last night. I see that they have started growing again! Yippie!
I have holes in my blueberry plant leaves. Not sure what to do about that yet. :( But my tomato plants from your seed mixes are doing well, especially the cherry tomatoes - I have flowers already!
Thanks for the video Kim!
Hello Great Gazoo - thanks for picking up a Bean Seed Collection from me! Glad you're having success with Scarlet Runner Beans - great job! Just wait til you harvest! They are the tastiest beans I've ever had. Keep me posted!
Its just HOT AN HUMID here in South La. hitting close to the 100s. And no rain in sight. Im having to water twice a day, already. I don't want to even think of August.
I love the coffee walk idea
I think I'm gonna try it
I’ve been finding worms and caterpillars in my garden so I’ve had to spray my plants with BT
Cut a couple beer cans in half and bury them to the top in your garden, leave a little beer in the cans. It will attract all nearby slugs. They’ll fall in the cans. Empty and repeat. You’ll be surprised how many slugs are lurking around.
You might wanna be careful spraying the neem oil first thing in the morning. You should try spraying it in the evening instead, because if you put it on in the morning before the bright midday sun, it’s a lot like putting tanning oil on your plants, and you can actually burn them!
Several years had a big problem with earwigs and it look like the ones in your video. My 2 chickens took care of that problem with them. I don’t use neem oil as I don’t want to kill any bees
Could be small caterpillars. Water your garden late in the evening and watch those suckers start coming out to eat. I did this process on my mint plant and caught a bunch of small caterpillars crawling out to eat.
Oh my gosh I have holes in my mint too
I have holes in my pepper leaves too! I had 7 bell peppers starting on one plant though so they aren’t seeming to mind. I’ve been spraying with neem oil and will have to try adding peppermint oil.
Yes pls address this! I'm a victim! 😭
Hi July, those holes in leaves of our veggies can be so frustrating! Here's a video that explains what to do in more detail: bit.ly/CaliKimOrganicPestControl. Good luck and thanks for stopping by!
Thanks for that date idea
Hi QG - ha ha, sure, anytime, let me know how it goes! Thanks for stopping by!
Looks like caterpillar/cabbage worm damage to me, happens usually on the more unhealthy plants first. I use BT Bacillus thuringiensis, from concentrate(the one for worms and caterpillars) and spray when the sun isn't bright out. Neem oil has never worked on any bugs/worms for me. Also a good fertilizer helps. An awesome homemade fertilizer that stopped any eating on my peppers was just collard, kale, radish etc. leaves thrown in a bucket of water and let sit till it stinks(couple days at least). Pour some in a watering jug and add water, can go like half stinky water with half regular water. Use that as your fertilizer and it works wonders, plus it's free!
My pepper plants have the same issue here in the OC, but much bigger holes 😭 Per advice on Instagram, I put beer in a 2 oz container near the plant. The next day, I'll find drowned slugs and rollie pollies.
Great tips Kim!
I’ve got the same holes, been catching small green grubs, neem applied, but they still eating the leaves
A couple of my pepper plants have some rust looking spots and are falling off. I can’t figure out what it is since the other peppers with them are fine. Salsa garden looks great! Love that pot!
Yeheyyyy coffee walk in the morning time!
Mine is Moringa Tea Walk in the Lanai, lol. I mentioned u in my vlogs.
crickets or grass hopper will leave holes like that
I’ve never had problems with bugs making holes in my leaves (knock on wood). Have you tried asking California Gardening’s channel, as he also lives in California, or MI Gardener?
Foxglove, hollyhock, blanket flower, columbine, zinnia, sunflower. My old friend Susan from high school is my go to gardener friend.
Lovely combo, Julie! It's amazing to have a friend you can talk all things gardening with, isn't it? Enjoy your weekend!
Rather than buying Sluggo, I have found that finely ground egg shells sprinkled around the base of the plant will keep the slugs off of them
Haha love it...beverage of choice...yes ma'am...
I also have holes in two of my pepper plants. The funny thing is it is only happening to my bell peppers. My banana pepper which is right between my two bell peppers - No Holes! Go figure. I was also thinking slugs.
Are you spraying oil in AM or PM? I heard ots best to spray oil at night to not hurt bees
You should join the Hot Pepper Growing Society group and Chileheads group on Facebook. I have a bunch of buddies in those groups who help and give insight on pepper growing.
I sprayed water and soap and it worked on mine
I have SAME issue and I will ask does the sluggo disturb my earth worms ?
Hey Cali Kim mine are doing the same thing we have been getting lots of rain here so I bought some sevan dust
Is the damage happening at night? I’m thinking earwigs.
And also how to grow fast rose plants and sunflower plants. What should I apply to get proper nutrients to those plants. Do suggest me.
I have these same inexplicable holes in my peppers. No droppings to speak of and no pests on the plant or near the base. I see lots of comments for earwigs, and we do have them around, so maybe. Is neem effective for earwigs?
I use crushed egg shells. Slugs and snails do not like the sharp edges
Found holes like this on my tomatoes and caught the bandit. It was a tiny black Beatle.
Wow, I’m having the same identical problem with my peppers here in middle Tennessee. I’ve been using the neem oil mixer as well, but so far it’s not helping... I haven’t seen any signs of slugs or snails either.. my entire garden is in containers and large raised beds on a 32x48 ft deck... so the bug community is much more under control there. I do have aphids and whatever can fly up here, but it’s so much better than when I planted in the ground. I walk through the garden every morning and early evening and rarely see very many insects. I don’t want to resort to dusting with chemicals if I can keep from it, but we’ll see how the peppers survive...I’ll be watching to see how you solve your infestation or maybe someone has some suggestions... love your videos, thank you for all you share..❤️
Same problem here in Alabama
Same situation on my pepper plants.above ground large containers.( rabbits and deer, even raised ground beds wont fly here on the cumberland plateau in mid east tn) sluggo is a good start even though im not seeing slug trails..no worms no catepillars....it was suggested. Pill bugs.if you used organic soil like manure and put down a mulch perfect hiding ground.sluggo water activated supposedly sluggo will kill doodle bugs....worth a shot.nothing visible in daylite adjacent tomatoe plant ..no worms no leaf chew.??
We have been getting a lot of rain. I sprayed neem oil as well. They are tearing my cabbage up. Hopefully it works.
I love walking through my garden in the evening with my glass of wine if I didn’t get a chance to do a morning coffee walk.
Tis the season for bugs. I've seen caterpillars like crazy around here. That and leaf hoppers. I think your damages are more likely leaf hoppers or possibly June bugs. June bugs will devour plants very quickly. But since June bugs are nocturnal I would think you would have spotted them at night. Most likely leaf hoppers. Those bugers are so hard to spot.
Is sluggo bait good for grasshoppers??
The pollinators seem to be loving the raspberry bush i have! More so than the flowers that I planted to actually attract them! Lol
Does sluggo bait work for grasshoppers and earwigs? I’ve been using DE but it’s a pain to work with.
I got holes our squash plant it can be slugs or a chewing insect
Have you tried sprinkling turmeric powder on your leaves to deter ants and slugs?
I don't see lots of holes in my peppers. It is very green and healthy however it doesn't grow fruits, I don't really see any bugs but we have ants. I live in Phx any suggestion to have my peppers yield??
I was thinking maybe earwigs as well. My peppers were decimated repeatedly last year by earwigs. I saw another person mention looking for them at night with a flashlight.
This video came just in time, I am having the same problem. Does neem oil hurt butterflies?
3 of my plants have had weird brown and white spots and I don’t know what’s wrong. I picked off those leaves to see if it would keep it from spreading but I’m so discouraged about it. I’m not sure what’s wrong and what to do.
I'm in south OC and I'm having the same problem with holes in the pepper leaves. I haven't found what's doing it. I look at night and day.
Yep mine too. But I prefer 7 dust
I noticed holes in my pepper plants and after close inspection I found a tiny grayish color Caterpillar/worm hiding in new growth.
I have been getting holes in my peppers too. Since I have a tiny garden, I check each plant every day after work and have found 2 caterpillars and some tiny bugs so I killed them. You are my garden friend! :) Always watching your videos even more than once.
Caterpillars like to hide in the soil! This happened to me with my spinach last year.
Looks like snail damage to me, but If you can’t find any I’m not sure.
I see that you're spraying them in full sun is that okay?
Something has been eating my zinnia seedlings once they pop up. :(
My peppers are doing the same thing 😩😩😩😩😩
You forgot about tornado 😊
Those small white moths that lay eggs & produce those tiny green "catepillars"!? Cant remember name of moth! Could they be the culprit? What is your recipe for the neem oil, please! Thank you!💜
I use 2 ounces of Neem Oil to a Gallon of water and a few dozen drops of liquid soap on Peppers and seems to work well and try to spray underneath the leaves as thats where all the buggers like to attack.
Beer gets slugs to.
I have holes too! I haven’t seen what could be doing the chewing.
Jana Gregory: caterpillars live in ur soil and may be climbing the plant at night to feed. Dig around and inspect your soil, just might be the issue.
Crazy, right, Jana? I usually am able to figure out who the culprit is, but not this time! Good luck to you too - thx for stopping by!
Romantic date in the garden to look for slugs? 😂 camera guy up that game, Ruth Chris.
It's a cottage cheese pepper hybrid
please comment back , why are my sunflower leaves going soft
100 miles up the coast it’s earwigs. 100% of the time.