DOES ANYONE KNOW OF A SAFE WAY TO GET RID OF JAPANESE BEETLE'S & OTHER PEST'S EATING AWAY AT MY BEAUTIFUL PLANT'S. I'VE USED PESTISIDE SPRAY'S BUT NOTHING IS WORKING ON THESE LITTLE GUY'S...I'VE ALSO TRIED SOAPY WATER AND THAT DIDN'T WORK...SO ANY HELP WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED...PEASEROSE..

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peacerose try using Triazicide once and done insect killer. It's a fast acting formular that protects your lawn and garden against damaging and nuisance insect. You mix the concentrated liquid with water in a garden sprayer and apply to your lawn, landscape, and garden, it kills target insect in 24 hours and continues for to protect for up to 2 months. I love this product it really works. You can buy it at home depot

THANK'S...I SHOP AT HOME DEPOT ALOT...SO I'LL PICK SOME UP SOON...I MIGHT ALSO GET SOME BUG BAGS TO CATCH THOSE JAPANESE BEETLES IN,,I'VE USED THEM BEFORE AND THEY WORK GREAT..THEY SMELL BAD BUT WHEN THEY GET FULL WE TIE THEM UP IN A GARBAGE BAG AND TAKE TO THE DUMP.....THANKS AGAIN...PEACEROSE..

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Originally posted by Justnoww:
peacerose try using Triazicide once and done insect killer. It's a fast acting formular that protects your lawn and garden against damaging and nuisance insect. You mix the concentrated liquid with water in a garden sprayer and apply to your lawn, landscape, and garden, it kills target insect in 24 hours and continues for to protect for up to 2 months. I love this product it really works. You can buy it at home depot

Powdered Sevin Dust works well on your plants for getting rid of Japanese Beetles as well. You can purchase it at most stores that carry Lawn and Garden supplies. They also have a spray, but I didn't have as good of luck with the spray.

Peacerose, don't buy those "bags" for the beetles. It actually attracks MORE bugs that what you have. The bags works but then you end up catching your neighbors bugs too. Not all of them make it into the bags so then you are left with them in your yard.

My suggestion is to go with the other products that folks have suggested. I am having the same problem in my garden with those nasty bugs eating my green beans. So far the other products have worked....you just need to re=apply after a rainstorm.

What is safe to use on Tomato and Cucumber Plants to keep pest from eating them? this is my first year with cukes, any help will be great. Thanks.

One way to keep pest from eating your cukes or in our case it was the corn stalks. Put a couple containers of fresh water out. They are probably looking for water. This was a real problem for us not too long ago because we were really rain deprived but when we put the containers out it helped. A tip from my father-in-law.

Has anyone found anything that helps keep grasshoppers off my plants. They mow down everything!

Help! Mole problems! HOW CAN WE GET RID OF THEM?

Someone told me there are Japanese Beetle traps at various hardware & home improvement stores. I use something similar in my house for little critters, but have not used specifically the traps designed for Japanese beetles. It is a no chemical way to go, so it might be worth checking into.

PS - My aunt was into organic gardening. She always planted marigolds, basic, chives & mint around her garden & swore it helped keep pests away. Might be worth a try. Certainly would smell nice.

If you put little pin wheels in your yard or garden they help get rid of moles. moles hate the vibration of the pin wheels going around.

I read an article a couple years ago about using aromatic herbs in flower beds to eliminate pests. It has worked for me. I planted perennial herbs such as chives, thyme, rosemary, sage, etc in all of my beds along side my flowers. Not only do they keep most pests away, they look pretty, flower, and are edible.

My late father had an exceptional"Green Thumb" He not only managed his own vegtable and flower gardens, but help 2 of my brothers, myself and surrounding neighbors with their produce. He was very much ahead of the times is the use of "Green" products.
Two of his bug pest controls were beer and moth balls.
The beer was use to keep slugs off of the tomato plants and the moth balls to ward off rabbits. They really worked and he had the best garden, with the largest produce of wnyone around

The BEST one I have come across Organic Gardeners use here in Texas. Make a spray using ground pepper powder (like cayanne) and water and spray mist your plants...I have found this even works to spray not yet ripened fruit (just remember to wash before you eat it. lol.) It save my tomatos one year from the nasty grass hoppers we get here. It is hot to us and also hot to the pesty little varments.
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