Spraying Isn't the Only Option! | Backyard Garden Bugs
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- What can you do about all those pesky bugs that try to eat your plants and veggies in the backyard garden? We believe in an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) strategy that includes a variety of techniques like crop rotation, cover crops, and more!
Join us as we'll tell you which insect pests give us the most trouble in our backyard garden. We'll also share what products and techniques have been most effective for us lately. While eradication is never possible, we can manage pest populations to an acceptable level so that the effects on our garden are minimal.
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Appreciate your short disclaimer about the seven… a true southerner… it is what it is!!! I’m gonna eat peas
These bugs wiped out ALL my peas this year. I`ve found that the only way to get a harvest is by picking the green pods just before the stinging phase and boil them like green beans. I only recently harvested enough dry Red Ripper Peas for next year`s seeds by planting some in the mounds around my fig trees away from the main patch.
The dry spring gave way to a relatively pest-free season. I've had the best cucumber and zucchini crops without any pests (thank you, God) and just a wee bit of worm damage on the tomatoes. I try not to spray until I have to. Pollinators are already in short supply in my county so I give them priority status.
@Sue Patterson. You're very fortunate. I'm in central Florida and I have spider mites and the flea beetles are here. It's just May and they're not supposed to be here until June through August. Gary @The Rusted Garden says he uses peppermint oil for spider mites. I'm going to try that tomorrow. I did my test spraying today. I hope you have more good luck with no pests. I'm like you, I only spray if I have to. Happy Gardening 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
I have Seven on hand and will not bat an eye to use it if needed. I use Spinosad and even keep a little Malathion. Malathion is so short lived it makes an excellent choice for some things usually early on when plants are starting. Here in East Texas, squash vine bores are nemesis and so are cucumber beetles. I was plagued with flea beetles on my potatoes last year and this year none. No corn worms so far in 5 years. I am mostly a container gardener with several raised beds. I really enjoy your presentations, expertise, and insights, in growing vegetables. Thanks for your vids.
I use the Bonide Fruit Tree Spray on my fig trees and it contains Malathion. Seems to work very well.
Travis I sure do enjoy hearing you talk and explaining everything to the T. I feel like I'm in a garden seminar with your teaching. Thank you very much for being my teacher. I couldn't have the three big plots and doing so well, without Master Tavis's teaching. Tena
Thanks Tena! Glad to hear your gardens are doing well!
I use bt for worms or catipullars, and I make a jadam sulphur spray and wetting agent for all other bugs. I only spray if it's infested. If not I let them predators take action 😊 great video cheers from Virginia
Tiny little dark worms wiped out a lot of pea leaves, okra leaves, amaranth and my dwarf tomatoes this year. Inspecting the plants 3 times a day isn`t even enough...they appear overnight and wipe the tomatoes out. Louisiana. I`ve never seen so many strange pests. I got no peas because they got stung and rotted until late August...enough for seeds.
cutworms got into my beans and corn plant seedlings, had to get after them with Seven. i should have put down seven before planting.. lesson learned
Thank you Travis - I appreciate all the information you give us - even being 56 - i learn new very informative content each time i listen to you .
God bless you & your beautiful family .
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I appreciate that!
The best spray I have used for squash bugs and vine borer moths is a mixture of Dr. Bronners Castille soap, Tea Tree Oil and Citronella oil. In a quart sprayer, add 2-3 tablespoons soap and 10-15 drops of each oil. Fill to the top with water and mix well. Spray squash bugs and soak generously. The oils prevent them from flying, making it easy to catch and kill them, but if you coat them well, they usually die in 3-4 minutes. If you can't find Tea Tree oil, you can substitute Dr. Bronner's Hemp Soap with Tea Tree Oil. Just use a bit more soap. I recently used this spray on an Aphid/fire ant infestation on the underside of my Jing Okra, and it killed the aphids and fire ants on contact. Weird thing was, the aphids only attacked my Jing Okra, and ignored my Jambalaya and Red Burgundy Okra planted in the two adjacent rows. After spraying two days in a row at 101 and 104 degrees each day here in Texas zone 8B in late July, I only experienced a very slight leaf tip burn on the okra where the spray accumulated when running off, and I have sprayed 5 types of squash daily with no burning (Kabocha, Algonquian, Festival, Golden Zucchini, Sweet Dumpling). The soap and oils literally suffocate virtually all soft bodied insects, but you have to generously coat them.
Here in Griffin GA, already got the leaf footed bastards starting to show up and some Japanese beetles too. Already use the two and a few other Monterey brand items you show. But, picked up some Azera a month ago. About to bust it out tomorrow and spray and pray.
Get 'em!
Aardvarks like to eat ants, but they mostly live in southern Africa. Being southerners, they might like Georgia. They also seem to hang out with a Pink Panther.
Thank you so much for showing photos of the pest. You are the only channel that I have seen do this and I really appreciate it. Now I will know what I'm looking at. Also. Good to find out I can mix Spinosaid and disease spray together; what a time saver. Thanks again!
Our pleasure!
Grasshoppers like our fall garden early in the season
Yeeessss black lubbers are awful
1) Yes, I rotate crops.
2) Neem oil is the only spray I use.
3) Flea beetles and aphids are the main pests we get. Don’t have horn worms or squash bugs.
Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA - 5/24/2022.
I lived in Seatt!e area for many years. Washington gardeners don't know how easy they have it with respect to bugs. I'm in Oklahoma, and like Georgia, you can't belie the past pressurse.
You can't believe the pest pressure.
Hi, Daryl and Sharon. You got that right!!! I grew up in Michigan, lived in Iowa and Texas, and now reside in Washington. Flea beetles and aphids are annoying, but are manageable. We just don’t have the pest pressure here like we used to have in those other places! Best wishes, Kate
We’ve been lucky down here in Louisiana not much pest yet but I use some of the same options you do I fine they work great. When I was little we used to put seven dust in a sock and go around the garden shaking the sock and dust plants. I think that it is frowned upon these days lol
Yeah that was before folks realized the impact that it can have on the pollinators and other beneficial insects.
Yeah man, If I find that my backs up against the wall I will break out the sevin. I just can't let my crops and hard work go to waste. Some of these pests down here in GA don't take the hint, they must be nuked if push comes to shove.
True story.
Very good presentation of your IPM strategy. As you say, it's not about eliminating pests, but instead controlling them to an acceptable threshold. Easy for me to say since I fight very little serious bug pressure, aphids being my chief enemy. I use the same products and mixtures, though the Azera has a minimum application rate of 1 fl. oz., and the Monterey Spinosad needs a minimum of 2 fl. oz. The Azera costs about 2-1/2 times as much as Spinosad but controls about 10 times as many pest species including those tough guys like squash bugs, leaf footed bugs and grasshoppers. Still, if you're just fighting worms and corn borers, stick with the Spinosad. I rotate crops and only use sprays when scouting tells me there's a problem.
I know this is a subject I requested, so thanks for taking the time to make this video. I'm in 8a and new to gardening so I model a lot of what I do based on how you do things, and I gotta say it's working well so far, so thanks again. I planted the diomede cucumber this year and didn't get very good germination, I know you need so many to ensure enough male flowers so I went and bought some straight 8's from the nursery and planted them among them. Don't know if that will work out but we'll see.
That should work.
Last year was the first time I had leaf footed bugs. Normally I have the green or brown stink bugs. I have yet to be able to properly combat them even with liquid 7. I have resorted to putting fruit bags over my tomatoes. I am trying to grow squash and zucchini this year. So far so good. The last few times I tried were failures due to borers. Louisiana Zone 9
The adults are almost impossible to kill.
No judgment over here, you do what works! 👍 We use 'Milky Spore' for Japanese beetles, Neem Oil for the sucker insects, Borax + Sugar for ant control, just picked up BT so we'll see how that works out for the persnickety pests.
BTW, Great video can't believe I missed this one!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I alternate BT with spinosad. Also use trap crops and flowers.
I use trap cropping also. I always leave a few collards and kale etc. scattered throughout the garden(left over from winter, don't care if they bolt)along with a few flowers. I'd love to hear your method.
I live in VA zone 7b and have a small back yard garden with several raised beds. Crop rotation is almost not possible - I do it but am limited. I spray weekly here, alternating LiquiCop/Spinosad and Complete Disease Control/Fruit Tree Spray Plus. I also add Bt every couple weeks. Leaf footed bugs are a beast to control and they get bad here once the heat sets in. Bug Buster 2 is my go-to when that happens. I just have no choice unless I want my tomatoes destroyed. Go Dawgs!
Good plan for your limited space. GO DAWGS!
Here in Northern AL was the first time I had trouble with vine bore. Never had problem with them in the north. I have completely given up on zucchini because of it
Sorry to hear that. If you're having trouble with vine borer, just make sure to try and rotate if you can. Don't plant squash in the same place every year or it could get worse.
Wow! Here in the NW we have tiny little plants just planted. This is the first week where the temperature is above (barely) 60.
FL zone 9B. Give green lacewings a try. They work well for me.
It has been pouring down rain all day here in Augusta GA let's hope my tomatoes do not split. I am sure you got some rain too.
We got a little, but could use some more -- we didn't get near enough to make tomatoes split.
in a compact garden like mine, i also
spray ornamentals nearby, with specific plants that some pests also take to, besides vegetables.
early summer i also need to spray lawn, when aphid numbers explode.
Dish soap a drop only, helps the main chemicals required to stick on to insects or leaf.
I think we pretty much have the same sort of best and disease pressure here in No. Florida as you do. So far this year, I really haven't needed to spray anything, as I treat with beneficial nematodes as soon as the weather gets warm enough, but that's fixin' to change. Beneficial nematodes die off when it gets hot, and it's getting to be that time. The Azera looks promising! I'll most likely start with alternating Spinosad and BT when I get a break from the rain, and buy the Azera when I need to replenish.
Seems like it's a little hotter this year, which means the pest issues tend to be worse.
Hey Travis, I understand that the pickleworm moth is active only at night. Some Agribon row cover staked to the ground and pulled up each night to be clothes pinned to the frame would thwart them. Lower the shields in the morning for the pollinators to have access. Alternative pest control. I'm growing Corinto also this year but we're not in the pickleworm range.
That would likely work if you didn't mind putting it up and down every day.
Has this not been a crazy season? We went almost directly from winter to summer. I can remember having temps in the 90's in early May, but it's not normal. I'm quite a bit older than you and I know years ago we could have a light frost in early May.
If the aspirin works for mildew I can't see it yet. The one good thing is the winter squash vine is growing so fast maybe it will outgrow some of that.
It's definitely been a hotter than normal May. My indeterminate tomatoes are showing it too.
@@LazyDogFarm I went back and watched your first official Lazy Dog Farm video and it warmed my heart to see you teaching the boys about gardening. I have 3 sons and I had them in the garden when they were young to. Out of the three only the oldest son still enjoys gardening. The middle son will help me with my garden if I ask, but he never volunteers. The youngest forgot everything he learned growing up, of course he was the lazy one. Being the baby of the family he was a little spoiled. I've always enjoyed gardening and I still learn new things. Is it to late to add some potash to my main crop potatoes? I've never grown this variety before and I can't even tell you the name of them because I threw away the bag thinking I would remember 🙄. It's a red potato but it's a longer growing potato than the Pontiac, Norland and Viking. They have the most vine of any potato I've ever grown. If they make as many tubers as vine, I'll be a happy camper.
Thanks for the info. I deal with the same pests. But I also deal with the vine borer. I am going to try to develop a better plan this year.
Good luck!
Travis, the Ryobi fogger/mister I mentioned in a prior comment on another video only holds 1/2 gallon of mixed product. However I have found that it goes much further than the same amount of mixed product would in a backpack or pump sprayer. I can do our entire garden twice and still have some left over (by twice, I mean spray once, then start over at same point in same session to ensure full coverage). For the average home garden it's plenty. But I doubt you could fog your 10 (ok, 11) plots in one session. One other point, the fogger/mister will spray more vigorously and further distance than the electrostatic types I have seen (and it is less expensive than electrostatic styles). It's more or less the combination of a small leaf blower and a spray/mister. The only thing to make sure of is to tighten the tank cap fully. The Ryobi unit (I think it is the 8501model) pressurizes the tank to inject the product into the air stream. You want to see it fogging for a second or two after the fan stops blowing as the pressure bleeds down. That is one way to tell you are getting maximum product injection. If the cap is a little loose, you will see sputtering and inconsistent fogging.
Thanks for the tips David. Sounds like a useful tool for the home garden.
Good points... I watched a few videos on the 1/2 gal fogger, and then picked up the Ryobi 1 gal electrostatic this season. I was surprised it does not have a blower, so it does not rustle the leaves around quite like I was expecting. But it still seems to provide better coverage than regular sprayers, and hopefully the electrostatic works as advertised so more of the spray finds the leaves.
Also if anyone wants to try them, keep an eye on Direct Tools Outlet. My local store has "blemished" 1 gal electrostatic kits (with 2 batteries) for $199, and last week I picked up a couple of them on sale for $99. The 1/2 gal tool-only and kits were also 50% off, I should have picked up one to try. They run the same sales on their website and their shipping is reasonable (flat-rate), though judging from the complaints on their FB page it sounds like they are running a few weeks behind.
Yes! Our southern zone 8 vegetable growing is getting harder with pest pressure sometimes makes me want to give up!! Thank you for the input cause it encourages me a bit. I also used the Azera for my squash bugs along with putting up early yellow plastic bait traps for adults. I counted we caught about a dozen total. I was able to get SOME harvest briefly with the spraying. Last year I gave up in disgust they were so bad. Nothing else I tried worked and I tried everything! I am seeing leaf footed bugs now too so you scared me there. Will see how my tomatoes fare with regular spraying. Also our weather is NOT cooperating this year. Too hot too soon, drought, and now rain every day. Should I throw in the towel?
No you should not give up. You should try removing the squash bug eggs from your plants. My wife and I kill hundreds of them manually, and also spray organically and remove their eggs.
We will throw in the towel come July. But we'll do our best to keep things manageable until then.
Don’t give up! You’ll miss it.
Great information for pest management!! ✌🏻
Glad it was helpful!
Can you please make a video about low cost post harvest handling of leafy greens?
Our trick is to not wash them until we're ready to eat them. Cut them, put them in a bag and in the fridge until ready to eat.
Hey Travis. Have you considered incorporating and/or attracting beneficial insects to the plots? Not sure if there are any that could help control your specific pests, but they can really make a dent in controlling the problem bugs. Great video on a timely subject.
I have a decent amount of ladybugs and wasps that help, but I've never introduced any.
Man the leaf footed bugs over here get up to 3 inches long and they FLY! I never knew what they were called so i refer to them as the mutated futuristic armoured stink bug lol. And they started on my blueberries and now they are devouring my tomatoes. And I aint touching them lol.
Never seen a 3” long leaf-footed bug. Sounds like you’ve got some prehistoric creatures in your garden. 😂
@@LazyDogFarm like I said mutated armoured futuristic or prehistoric stink bug! And me neither. It was on the mirror of my truck and yea lets just say when i seen him he didnt see me no more. But that was the only one i seen like that lol. Thank God lol. Most are about an inch and a half long.
You know if you put azomite for the trace minerals and the silica and neem seed meal for the nitrogen and bug repelling effects Plus a crab or crustacean maybe even a insect frass for the citan you will have a pretty bug resistant garden but it's very expensive unless you just start slowly and build lasagna style every year or sprinkle a little bit of the combination in with your worm farm is the best bet and feed compost teas once every couple of weeks
Very good video thanks for the info. I use tempo sc around my house works great never on the garden tho. Never have had to spray my garden.
Leaf miners are prevalent in SW Florida…. Any suggestions? Thank you very much! I’m binge watching love your content!!❤
Interesting show today. I grew up gardening but never saw my dad use anything to prevent disease or bugs...meaning I don't know what to do with any chemicals. It would be nice to see how you use the products you talked about.
Each product has it's own mixing rate, but most of them are 1-2 oz of product per gallon of water. Just mix them in the sprayer and coat the plants as evenly as you can.
For the leaf footed bugs consider growing some grain sorghum as a trap crop, then spray that with something harsher than what you want to spray your tomatoes with (assuming you're not going to eat the grain from the sorghum, though that is an option). A dwarf variety won't get annoyingly tall. Once it's in flower, sorghum is a magnet for all manner of leaf footed bugs and stink bugs.
Oh that is so good to know. Definitely writing that into my garden plan for next year!
So are sunflowers!
We grow a good bit of sorghum sudangrass as a cover crop (just planted some actually), but have never noticed it being a magnet for leaf-footed bugs. Maybe I was paying close enough attention though.
@@LazyDogFarm A quick google for "sorghum trap crop" turned up a document from your local university's extension service with the following paragraph in it:
"Another form of trap cropping is to use an entirely different species of plant. In many cases, the trap crop will be completely unrelated to the vegetable you are trying to protect, but will attract the same type of pests. Sorghum and sunflowers are an example of trap crops that can be used near desirable plants. Research has shown that both of these plants are extremely attractive to stink bugs and leaf-footed bugs. Both trap crops are extremely inexpensive to establish from seed."
Possibly relevant... My experience is with grain sorghum, not sorghum sudangrass. I also mostly observed the insects on the plant after flowering started. Before that, the major pest attracted to the sorghum was aphids.
@@bobbun9630 thank you. Blue Hubbard squash are a trap per research of internet for squash. Never got to plant squash last year and too early to offer experience this year.
If it comes down to using sevin or getting nothing then sevin it is.
Not if you're allergic to Sevin.
@@rosawilliams9145 I'm not.
Good video. I use the same organic products you are using to control insects. I was curious if you foliar fertilize. I just started this year with agrothrive fruit and flower and Ocean for minerals. I am a believer. I usually do it early in the morning. I still fertilize the soil but think this is a good addition. Thanks
I have been foliar feeding some this year. Doesn't make a huge difference, but does seem to help.
There are so many non toxic ways to take care of your yard insects . My favorite for different methods are my hummers. Those birds with a few clean feeders do one good job of taking care of unwanted insects. I'd rather do that than poison the birds..bees and butterfly's.
How often will u spray field peas with Sevin? Last Summer here in 9b, they decimated my field peas and adzuki beans. Gr8 video n thx for the info!!
I try to treat every 14 days. But I will sometimes treat every seven days when the pods are forming.
I'm thinking about getting ducks Indian runners specifically I've heard they're great for garden pests what do you think about that
I'm seeing a lot of earwigs in my garden. I sprayed them with need oil. Hope that was okay.
What fertilizer do you use on sweet potatoes in a container being grown mostly for the leaves. The growth I do have is lime green!
Give them some form of nitrogen. I'm probably going to use Nature Safe 10-2-8 on mine.
My understanding has been that if plants cross pollinate then only the seeds are impacted. Is this not the case?
That is true. But in the case of these parthenocarpic cucumbers that don't require pollination, there are said to be issues when the flowers do get pollinated.
I've recently got a fogger because I used to use the 4gal. sprayer like the one you have, and it's ok. However, it takes a LONG time to spray everything because of the top and bottom coverage issue. I'm going to be trying out the fogger tomorrow. Can you spray spinosad and pyrethrin together mixed? I have noticed that the pyrethrin seems to be a fast acting killer, while the spinosad seems to be a slower acting product. I was thinking of using them together because I have an unruly population of crickets and stink bugs that I need to whack real quickly, and would like to have the spinosad for long reach. I am going to include a fungi max product in there as well. Thanks for your thoughts!
I don't see any reason why you couldn't mix those. I like the idea of the fogger, just haven't made that investment yet.
@@LazyDogFarm Yo, so I tried out the Petratools super C 4gal fogger tonight....UNBELIEVABLE!! I did the whole garden in at least 1/3 of the time, and saved probably at least 50% of product. You should really invest in one...thank me later. (:
Have you ever had very small green caterpillars in your broccoli or cauliflower? If so what to you for to get rid of them. I did not have these in my fall garden but have them in my spring garden. Any help would greatly be appreciated
This will take care of them and it's organic (if that matters to you): amzn.to/3GAk1XQ
Thank you for the information.
Will liquid 7 take care of the adult leaf footed bugs?
It should do some damage.
@@LazyDogFarm I will give it a try, Like yourself, I hate to do it but they are relentless here and yes, they have "laughed" at everything organic that I have tried on them too. Tough son of a guns. Thank you Travis.
Travis, do you have any solution for striped cucumber beetles? Its my first year dealing with them and they're on all my cucurbits. Spinosad doesnt seem to do much and the only successful method I've found so far is squishing each one by hand.
Azera would be the best organic option that I could recommend. Otherwise, you'd have to go with a conventional option.
I would like to see someone talk about pest control after heavy rains. No one says anything about that. I seem to have to spray after several days of rain.
That's prime spraying time down here in the hot/humid south! Especially fungicides!
What Tom said. If you're getting a lot of rain, just try to find a day or so between storms to at least get some fungicides on the plants.
Yes I always use a fungicide with the pest control. I'm as south as you can get. 12 miles from Gulf shores Alabama. I know to spray after rains. I was saying there are ppl that don't know. I am asked that a lot.
@@windingoakhomestead8256 That's hot/humid country down there! I lived in Gulf Shores and Mobile for years. Tough conditions!
How often do you spray your peas with seven?
I've been doing it about once every couple weeks.
You should make a video of you spraying Azera. I just used it for the first time and the label really freaked me out. Do you use a respirator when you spray?
I don't wear a mask. Those labels are a lot like the risk disclaimers on medicine commercials. It's more of a CYA measure required by whatever government faction officiates those matters.
@@LazyDogFarm Awesome thank you!
G’day Travis,
What orientation are your beds/plots planted?
North south or east west.
ie does the sun follow the your rows or cross over them?
Cheers from Australia 👍🏻
I have some rows that run N to S and some that run E to W. If the plot is in full sun, I haven't found that it matters.
What about grasshoppers?
Haven't ever seen many grasshoppers. We see one on occasion, but not enough to do any damage.
What nozzle were you using with the backpack sprayer. I have been trying to achieve that type of mist pattern without success.
It's the fan nozzle that came with this sprayer I have: amzn.to/440FiEY
I'm thinking mantis is what I need to import to my yard
I've never seen many of those around here, but I'm sure they would help.
I have leaf footed bugs by the tons and they are going to town on my tomatoes and something is munching on my basil and onions. Never have I had an issue with something eating basil or onions EVER. What can I do besides spray. I have bees that I don't want to kill with spray
I've never had any pests on basil or onions either. If you don't want to spray, hand removal or insect netting would probably be your best best.
When you mix the disease and pest products I’m assuming you don’t double the water amount. So say if each call for one ounce per gallon of water, you do one gallon of water and one ounce of each product?
That's correct. We don't double the water when add more products to the mix.
@@LazyDogFarm thanks a bunch. I’m going to try mixing them. Wasn’t aware you could do that.
My leaf footed bug problem is massive every year no matter what I do. I can spray a synthetic and they’re back in 2-3 days. Idk what to do at this point. I’ve thought about covering all my tomatoes with insect netting and/or possibly building a chicken tunnel around my raised bed garden to see if they can help keep the population down. What are your thoughts?
Those options you mentioned might be worth a shot. It could be that the eggs are overwintering in the soil. A light cultivation will help with that if you're not opposed to it. When the leaf-footed bugs get really bad, that's when we usually pull our tomatoes.
@@LazyDogFarm I’m way behind with my tomatoes this year. A line of storms with 70mph winds wiped out my first planting and I wasted about 3 weeks trying to bring them back from it. Big mistake! I know I’m going to have a battle on my hands. Is there a company you recommend for stuff like insect netting?
What’s some none organic spray that works well
If you don't care about being organic, that Liquid Sevin works well. It's just pretty rough on the pollinators and other beneficial insects.
I have a question I like radishes but I grew them this year after not growing them for 3 years because I have a problem with a little worm getting in them what can I do to treat them
Interesting. Never seen worms in radishes. We get flea beetles that eat the radish leaves, but nothing in the radish itself. Both of the products we mentioned in the video should help with any type of worms though.
@@LazyDogFarm I have never seen them before until I moved in to the house I live in now I have been here 5 years ant the first year no problem the second year I had to toss the whole planting and this is year 5 so two years without planting them and they still got in them not as bad but I just feed them to my backyard chickens
What is the name of the moth that turns into a corn earworm thanks
Here you go: entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/veg/corn_earworm.htm
My Mother used seven dust on the peas… nothing else worked.
I have a bad problem with leaf footed bugs as there are alot of thistles around my property and they seem to set up colonies in them. Anyway...in addition to what Travis said, I have found that diatomaceous earth will do a number on the adult bugs(not sure about the nymphs). Just another option. gg :)
I have been at battle with those. I may be winning
I have had some success with DE sprinkled at the base of the plant for squash bugs.
Has anyone ever tried either sweet success or dasher ll cucumbers? I grew burgess hybrid and straight 8 and lemon cucumbers this year. They are just about played out. Will not grow those again. I have a place close by with sweet success and dasher ll cukes. Wondering if they are worth trying.
Seems like I've heard good things about Dasher. That variety does sound familiar. I haven't heard of Sweet Success.
I have grown Sweet Success and have it growing this year. Very good taste and no seed. Have pickles growing this year and can’t remember if they are parth. Or not but hope. In a rush planted all in the same row. They did make some odd shapes but still tasty.
Azara is $400 per gallon?
Like I said, it's not cheap. lol
You use 2 Tbs. per gallon of spray (maybe 3 Tbs. for mature squash bugs). I buy the 8 oz size, but I can get over a season out of that bottle if I just use it on my fifty tomatoes and thirty cucurbits. Spinosad for the brassicas. Even at that high price per ounce, it's the cheapest effective organic broad-spectrum pest control out there. You already put so much money and time into your garden, don't let the insects rob you. Think Defense Budget.
Jasmine Street Farm
From my understanding, if your cucumbers are cross-pollinated, this will not affect the fruits of the current generation. If you save seeds from the cross-pollinated cucumbers, then the cucumbers from that second generation might not be true to the original variety. If you aren’t seed-saving, no problem.
Are there any dustings which will deal with these pests?
There are, but they're usually not the most bee-friendly option.
@LazyDogFarm okay. I have used some for my potatoes in the past but not sure how effective it is.
Thank you.
What's the name of that productive cuke??? I could get all the wax out of my ears...
Corinto
Leaf legged bugs are rat 🐟 💩 s
Indeed they are!