Be vigilant about picking off bugs, spraying them with a blast of water and only if needed, use a natural or organic pesticide.
Here is some additional advice from a site called AllAboutPumpkins.com: "To help lower populations, in the fall we compost or till under plant material so the beetles don't have a protected spot to over-winter. We also keep our fence lines clean and weed populations hoed or mowed. We plant rows of sunflowers near the pumpkin patch to work as an attractant crop. We time it so the sunflowers bloom a little in advance to the pumpkins. The cucumber beetles flock to the bright yellow sunflower heads. If the population is low they will tend to stay on the sunflowers and you won't see a lot of damage to your pumpkin crop." See the site for more details. Good luck!
Somehow my house and garden got tiny gnats that killed my fuchsia plant and fly everywhere. I have tried ALL the Web recommendations - soap and oil dishes, sand in th...
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Growing our first garlic, should we wait until the leaves are drying out before we pick it? Husband picked first one today along with our first potatoes.
Hi everyone, I have mice in my garden destroying my vegetables and I have also noticed them in the barn and shed. Please can someone tell me how to prevent them from ...
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Be vigilant about picking off bugs, spraying them with a blast of water and only if needed, use a natural or organic pesticide.
Here is some additional advice from a site called AllAboutPumpkins.com: "To help lower populations, in the fall we compost or till under plant material so the beetles don't have a protected spot to over-winter. We also keep our fence lines clean and weed populations hoed or mowed. We plant rows of sunflowers near the pumpkin patch to work as an attractant crop. We time it so the sunflowers bloom a little in advance to the pumpkins. The cucumber beetles flock to the bright yellow sunflower heads. If the population is low they will tend to stay on the sunflowers and you won't see a lot of damage to your pumpkin crop." See the site for more details. Good luck!
Apply food grade diatomaceous earth and spray them down with horticultural oil.