Garden Bugs
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Organic gardeners divide the insect world into two camps: good bugs and bad bugs.
The bad bugs bring death, disease, and destruction, they suck the life out of plants, infest the soil and lay eggs by the thousands.
The good bugs remind me of an army of peacekeepers, who come marching in bringing peace and harmony. They work quietly, taking care of the bad bugs by munching on them and generally getting rid of your enemies for you.
Now, you would think that bad bugs would look horrible and good ones would be pretty but that is not always the case i.e A ground beetle, which eats slugs, is distinguished from a darkling beetle, which eats plants, by a ridge on its head from which the ground beetle’s antennae protrude.
Now, I don’t know if you have ever tried to get down and close enough to a beetle to see this difference, I haven’t, and I don’t think I really want to!
A friend of mine once wiped out an entire cache of yellow eggs on the underside of an aphid- infested leaf, thinking that she was destroying the young of an evil Mexican bean beetle, however, she really destroyed the nursery of a ladybug, whose eggs would have eventually hatched and would have turned into an army of hungry aphid eating larvae!
I think for weeks, she must have apologized to all the ladybugs in her garden!
I am good at giving advice on how to get rid of bugs in your garden, but I really don’t like to kill them. I hate to pick slugs off of a plant, and then have to decide what I am going to do with them. I feel the creature moving in my hand, and that makes me feel like a potential murderer. what if it has babies somewhere? Then I talk to myself and convince the weakling side of me, that I have no choice, if I want to keep my plants alive.
Coward that I am, I toss the slug out into the street, and hope that it will venture into someone else’s garden. As luck would have it, I actually threw one on to the road, and a passing motorist took care of the problem for me, so that is how I decided to deal with the slug and snail population, in my garden!
I did try talking to them and explaining that if they would just leave my plants alone,I would not have to take such drastic action, but I know they were not paying any attention, so out into the traffic, they went.
Ena Clewes is an author of short stories and is an avid Organic Gardener. Read Ena’s new ebook” How To Master Affordable Organic Gardening” you will find the link on the website http://www.organicgardengardening.com
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Garden Bugs Question: 1
What are these bugs in my garden? These bugs are unusual. There are dozens of them and i don't know what to do. They have white bodies and a black tail. It also resembles a baby caterpiller. Please help me out.
Answer: 1. http://whatsthatbug.com/ Answer: 2. PICTURE !!!!!!!!!!?????????
Answer: 3. get rid of em! they will eat your tomato and other veggies...
Garden Bugs Question: 2
never seen bugs? i've been going though my garden and i've fond some realy weird bugs. i've put them in a contaner.one looks like a realy big lady beatle but her spots are big and the black on it is jet black.the other one looks like a fance dug bealte.
Garden Bugs Question: 3
I want a bug free herb garden? I want to grow and herb garden, but whenever I’ve had indoor or outdoor plants, they’ve always acquired some sort of bugs. I hate bugs. I would like to grow my herbs in the kitchen indoors, and cannot have bugs in my kitchen. The rest of my house is bug free and I have a regular exterminator visits to keep it that way.Does anyone have experience with growing their own (extensive) herb garden and know ways (preferrably natural) to keep them bug free?
Answer: 1. I grow garlic between my plants to keep bugs away and it seems to work. It doesn't even smell like garlic.
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Answer: 2. Look into the Hydroponic indoor gardens. That might be what you are looking for.
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Garden Bugs Question: 4
how many marigolds should i place in a 26'x26' veggie garden? i have heard marigolds help keep bugs away from your veggies i would like to try planting them in my garden this year but have no idea how many or even where in the garden to plant. any suggestions would be nice. if it makes a difference i will be planting tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, garlic, onions, cucumbers, carrots, strawberries, corn, beans.
Answer: 1. Everything I've ever seen or read says to "plant freely" among vegetables in the garden. I would think put at least one plant between every two plants, that way there's a marigold to draw bugs away from the two plants it's between. You could probably even put them between every plant if you wanted.
I added a link below that has a lot to say about "companion planting", which is a way for one plant to help "feed" the plant it's planted with, as well as (sometimes) conserving space so you can get more produce out of a smaller garden. All I did was Google "companion planting+marigolds" and got a lot of info. The link below gives a good overview on what you can do with marigolds and other plants as well.
Answer: 2. i would also like to thank everyone else who answered my question. it was all good info.
Answer: 3. I have read that you can also ring your garden with them as well. Probably a combination of edge planting and infill would work best but I suspect it is a trial and error process.
Answer: 4. Most gardeners plant them around the outside of the garden. But I guess a few throughout the garden will not hurt.
Plant 8 to 18 inches apart as per:
http://www.ehow.com/how_6780_grow-marigo... Answer: 5. Last year I planted them straight into the ground between rows and transplanted the ones that were too close together, they seem to be hardy enough to cope. You get a lot of seeds in a packet; tagetes are the ones that are supposed to be best for companion planting the old fashioned simple ones seem to be prone to blackfly.
I put a lot of them in as I thought it might deter slugs - I didnt have so many problems as the previous years so I am goign to do it again.
Garden Bugs Question: 5
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