Calling All Gardeners - I need help
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Sorry, no suggestions. But a Google search found some forums discussing them, and supposedly they are beneficial to the gardenMaybe something else is eating your garden, and the pill bugs are innocent bystanders?? Sorry I'm not any more help
Hi GovtGirl, Thanks for taking the time to google it, I have been all over the internet looking for info. I, too, read that they are beneficial, I think they came in, in large numbers, on our wood. We buy fire wood in the spring to cure all summer. Initially I thought it was the birds, and I used row covers, when I pulled back the row covers to check my seedling there were pill bugs in large piles in all the places where my seedlings used to be! I stood at the garden bed watching them go after the one remaining cucumber plant!
I tell ya, if it's not one thing it's is another. Last year I dealt with white fly. I wouldn't wish that one on anyone.
kathryn
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You might try diatomaceous earth. Wear a mask when you apply it, and use a duster to dust your plants with it. It's fossilized remains of very small critters, and the small particles are very sharp to insects (and not good to breath in, but it's otherwise non-toxic to humans). It's also good to use in the house if you have fleas or roaches or ants.
Another natural solution is neem, which repels insects.
It's kind of strange that whatever is in your garden is going after the marigolds, and marigolds are often planted to deter insects!
Another natural solution is neem, which repels insects.
It's kind of strange that whatever is in your garden is going after the marigolds, and marigolds are often planted to deter insects!
Thanks Kathryn and Janie
I'll try diatomaceous earth. It hasn't worked with ants, but hopefully it will work in the garden beds. I had the same thought about marigolds. What the ___?? In the beds where this pest is devouring my green beans, cukes and zukes all the marigolds were severely withered and the stems sucked out leaving a flailing orange head. When I pulled up the dead marigold - no roots!
Gardening can be tough stuff.
I'll try diatomaceous earth. It hasn't worked with ants, but hopefully it will work in the garden beds. I had the same thought about marigolds. What the ___?? In the beds where this pest is devouring my green beans, cukes and zukes all the marigolds were severely withered and the stems sucked out leaving a flailing orange head. When I pulled up the dead marigold - no roots!
Gardening can be tough stuff.