Poor things, but obviously very resilient.Hope mine survive, I have been crushing beetles all day - and they have got around the garden, read something that said they were good walkers - certainly true here!
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
My courgettes got covered in aphids last week. I got them off with soapy water spray, just blasted them off. The soapy water made it easy to slide them off, running the watering can over them.. I don't have a hose, that would have worked better! I lost a load of leaves.. but made sure I poured boiling water over the whole area, so they definitely didn't survive!
^^ they were in grow bags so it was pretty easy. I don't know what I would have done if they were in the ground. The top half of most of the stems was almost completely back. It was like village of the damned in the poly tunnel that morning
Great news, will get hubby to hurry up and finish building the duck house! Can't spend another day murdering beetles.What we gardeners to do to protect our precious plants, my poor little boy has to fend for himself!
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
I remember the Colorado beetle scare in the sixties they had posters on the gate of my dads allotment, All I knew about Colorado was that it was in America and to me the posters looked like the wanted posters seen in all the wild west television programmes, oh happy days!
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Poor things, but obviously very resilient.Hope mine survive, I have been crushing beetles all day - and they have got around the garden, read something that said they were good walkers - certainly true here!
We are getting ducks not chickens, do you think they will eat them too?
My courgettes got covered in aphids last week. I got them off with soapy water spray, just blasted them off. The soapy water made it easy to slide them off, running the watering can over them.. I don't have a hose, that would have worked better! I lost a load of leaves.. but made sure I poured boiling water over the whole area, so they definitely didn't survive!
^^ they were in grow bags so it was pretty easy. I don't know what I would have done if they were in the ground. The top half of most of the stems was almost completely back. It was like village of the damned in the poly tunnel that morning
Great news, will get hubby to hurry up and finish building the duck house! Can't spend another day murdering beetles.What we gardeners to do to protect our precious plants, my poor little boy has to fend for himself!
I remember the Colorado beetle scare in the sixties they had posters on the gate of my dads allotment, All I knew about Colorado was that it was in America and to me the posters looked like the wanted posters seen in all the wild west television programmes, oh happy days!