Preventing Problems: In areas where this pest is common, many gardeners monitor populations by placing a pail of soapy water in the garden next to a low-wattage black light. You also can use a broad bowl of soapy water to collect beetles feeding on individual...
Tips: Pole beans often are damaged by Japanese beetles, but because the infested leaves are at eye level, the beetles are easier to gather. Although traps will collect hundreds of beetles, they may attract beetles from far beyond your yard.
Encourage beneficial insects including lady beetles, syrphid flies, and lacewings, which are important aphid predators. In addition to the direct damage aphid feeding does to plants, aphids can transmit several diseases.
Planting and Harvesting Calendar < Back to All Plants Pests which Affect Anemone Aphids (General) Slug Snail Frost tolerant Varies. Crop Rotation Group Miscellaneous ● Soil Average to gritty garden soil with excellent drainage.
Using them to mulch around established fruit trees and bushes or perennial vegetables is usually fine however. It could be worth investing in a small shredder. About once a month, take off your mower's grass bag or insert your mulching attachment and...
Preventing Problems: Keep grassy weeds controlled, as they are grasshoppers' preferred host plants. Managing Outbreaks: Cover susceptible plants with row cover (garden fleece) or cones or covers made from window screening.
Planting and Harvesting Calendar < Back to All Plants Pests which Affect Cornflower Aphids (General) Slug Snail Feeding Fast growth is encouraged by mixing a balanced organic fertilizer into the soil before planting.
That may sound like a solution, but the problem is it also wipes out the beneficial insects – your own private army – at the same time. What's your favorite earth-friendly way to protect your garden from pests?
Our Garden Planner can produce a personalized calendar of when to sow, plant and harvest for your area. Cover the bulbs to four times their depth with loose soil. Notes Tulips will return for several years where winters are cold, but may rot when grown...
Planting and Harvesting Calendar < Back to All Plants Pests which Affect Iris Aphids (General) Slug Snail Frost tolerant Excellent. Crop Rotation Group Miscellaneous ● Soil Rich, fertile soil with excellent drainage.
Depending on species and plant, aphids may be beige, green, yellow or almost black. Encourage beneficial insects including lady beetles, syrphid flies, and lacewings, which are important aphid predators.
Planting and Harvesting Calendar < Back to All Plants Pests which Affect Rye (Annual) Aphids (General) Slug Snail Some strains are killed by temperatures around -10F (-23 C), while especially hardy varieties can tolerate more extreme cold.
The adult moths will lay their eggs there rather than on your garden plants, and you can chop up the cress and compost it when it is loaded with larvae. Damage: The larvae rasp holes in plant leaves that gradually enlarge to give the leaves a windowpane...
A few small species of gladiolus can survive winter temperatures to 15F (-9C), but large-flowered gladioli should not be considered winter hardy. As the flowers fade in the garden, trim them off with scissors or pruning shears.
Notes Feathery chamomile foliage contrasts well with the textures of other herbs and flowers. Leafy greens grown in spring, as well as spring-blooming herbs and flowers. Troubleshooting Rabbits enjoy nibbling chamomile foliage.
Damage: Leaf miner damage is usually cosmetic, though in severe case plants can be weakened. Managing Outbreaks: Pinch off, smash and compost badly damaged leaves. Leaf miner damage on tomato leaf [Credit: Ana Keliikuli ] Leaf miner damage on tomato leaf...
If you can, grow clumps in different parts of your garden. Set out plants at about the time of your last frost. Troubleshooting Clip off spent blossom clusters to limit reseeding in your garden.
Troubleshooting Especially in warm, wet weather, tired snapdragons may collapse from various root rot diseases. Position Full sun. Planting and Harvesting Calendar < Back to All Plants Pests which Affect Snapdragon Aphids (General) Slug Snail
Planting and Harvesting Calendar < Back to All Plants Pests which Affect Borage Aphids (General) Slug Snail Feeding Not generally needed. Notes Borage seedlings are only edible when very young.
Troubleshooting Snowdrops need a period of winter chilling, and will not persist long in warm climates. Our Garden Planner can produce a personalized calendar of when to sow, plant and harvest for your area.
Thoroughly spray the plants with a fine spray of water, taking care to rinse leaf undersides. Preventing Problems: Spider mites thrive under hot, dusty conditions, so keeping the garden watered helps prevent problems.
Troubleshooting Hot summer weather often leads to the demise of spring-planted johnny jump-ups. Most gardeners save time by buying johnny jump-ups as bedding plants. Crop Rotation Group Miscellaneous ● Soil Any good garden soil with average or better...
Troubleshooting Hot summer weather often leads to the demise of spring-planted pansies. Position Full sun to partial shade in warm climates. Planting and Harvesting Calendar < Back to All Plants Pests which Affect Pansy Aphids (General) Slug Snail
Troubleshooting White ageratum blossoms go brown as they age, which is not as noticeable in varieties that bloom blue. Position Full sun to partial shade. Planting and Harvesting Calendar < Back to All Plants Pests which Affect Ageratum Aphids (General)...
Our Garden Planner can produce a personalized calendar of when to sow, plant and harvest for your area. Walnuts should be grown in an orchard of their own, far from the vegetable garden.
Slightly green (immature) tomatillos have the tart citrus flavor most people prefer. Notes Tomatillos can reseed if allowed to do so, but extra seedlings are easy to lift and move or pull out.
Damage: Whiteflies weaken plants as they feed, and also excrete “honeydew” which attracts ants and serves as a food source for sooty mold. Purchased encarsia parasites provide effective whitefly control in greenhouses, but not in the open garden,...
