Grow some fennel or dill and let it flower, then watch the madness of thousands of little wasps flying all around them. Its why I plant fennel between my cabbage, because those wasps love to devastate cabbage worms.
Fuck harlequin bugs though. I took a weed burning torch to all of my greens and everything within 5 feet of them, cut everything down and burned it in a massive bonfire, then piled mulch along the entire row and let it burn for hours to kill any eggs left in the soil.
I'm going with sowing Roman chamomile in the flats with them. Once the brassicas are done, I'll transplant the chamomile out to the grass somewhere. That and buckets of soap and neem oil. I'm investing in a backpack sprayer this winter, with all the bobbex I've got to spray to keep the deer from killing everything. Seems to be working so far.
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Epictetus_Hierapolis ago
Grow some fennel or dill and let it flower, then watch the madness of thousands of little wasps flying all around them. Its why I plant fennel between my cabbage, because those wasps love to devastate cabbage worms.
Fuck harlequin bugs though. I took a weed burning torch to all of my greens and everything within 5 feet of them, cut everything down and burned it in a massive bonfire, then piled mulch along the entire row and let it burn for hours to kill any eggs left in the soil.
middle_path ago
Harlequin bugs are no joke. Got hit with them hard this spring. And that's why I am only planting brassicas in the fall.
Epictetus_Hierapolis ago
I'm going with sowing Roman chamomile in the flats with them. Once the brassicas are done, I'll transplant the chamomile out to the grass somewhere. That and buckets of soap and neem oil. I'm investing in a backpack sprayer this winter, with all the bobbex I've got to spray to keep the deer from killing everything. Seems to be working so far.
middle_path ago
Good luck!