Posts Tagged as ‘garden pests’

August 11, 2008

where were we? ah, yes…the et al

whiteflies! scale! spidermites! mosquitoes! slugs revisited!
whiteflies are tiny, tiny flies that lay their eggs on the undersides of leaves. you can identify the pests as whiteflies (as opposed to scale, a relative) by yellow, stunted plant growth (similar to the damage caused by aphids, another relative) and by the flurry of activity like that of [...]

July 30, 2008

aphids!

red, black, green, white, pink, brown…yup, those are aphids. though they look like tiny grasshoppers, aphids mass together in numbers to enjoy a life of sucking the life out of garden plants and making baby aphids as fast as they can. they cannot fly, but can be carried on the wind for great distances. some [...]

July 29, 2008

ladies and gentlemen, the beetles…

top three garden enemies: poison ivy, cigarette butts, and japanese beetles.
today, we conquer how to conquer japanese beetles.
as for the other two–i can discuss poison ivy eradication in a future post. but, as for those nasty butts…somehow it’s socially UNacceptable to spray horticultural oil on smokers? go figure.
so, japanese beetles. they eat, they hump, they [...]

July 28, 2008

IPM

just for the record, i am stating here that i love acronyms. case & point: i graduated from TESC (the evergreen state college,) currently own & manage P&B CGS (pot & box container gardening service,) and love my black dog TKM (the ko man.)
but, this time of year, the name of the game is IPM. [...]

June 15, 2008

slug control for major tom(ato)

yesterday, i discovered nibbles out of the leaves on my brussel sprouts
and pole bean seedlings.
in the words of marge simpson, “hummmrgh.”
my diagnosis: slugs.
time to throw a party.

use shallow trays or saucers (tuna fish cans work really well) and bury the container to soil level. fill half-way with beer–the slugs in my garden like pbr, but [...]