Organic pest and disease control

farmingnoob · Post by **farmingnoob** » Thu Jul 23, 2020 8:00 pm

Thank you Zasso for the information.

The grubs are back for round two! Dangomushi are also attacking my peppers!

Zasso Nouka · Post by **Zasso Nouka** » Fri Jul 24, 2020 5:12 am

Those grubs will be around for the rest of the summer and autumn, are your peppers touching the ground ? Generally dangomushi will eat any soft fruit in contact with the soil but I guess if they are very hungry they might climb up into the bushes to munch, you could smear a band of vaseline around the main stalk of your plants to stop them climbing up. That would also stop ants from taking aphids up into the plants as well.

farmingnoob · Post by **farmingnoob** » Fri Jul 24, 2020 9:23 am

They are climbing up into the leaves. My mature plants are ok, but they can completely destroy a young plant in a single night.

Zasso Nouka · Post by **Zasso Nouka** » Fri Jul 24, 2020 12:18 pm

The dangomushi (woodlice) are eating leaves and stems ?

farmingnoob · Post by **farmingnoob** » Fri Jul 24, 2020 8:30 pm

I've been seeing them eating the leaves, but maybe they're getting some help from slugs at night.

gonbechan · Post by **gonbechan** » Fri Jul 24, 2020 8:54 pm

you should be putting beer out for the poor slugs. they love a tipple at night. Also they fall in and die.

farmingnoob · Post by **farmingnoob** » Sat Jul 25, 2020 12:18 am

Yeah I really need to do that. I wasn't doing it recently because the rain would just wash it away.

Zasso Nouka · Post by **Zasso Nouka** » Sat Jul 25, 2020 5:00 am

You can put little roofs over your slug traps to keep the rain out.

gonbechan · Post by **gonbechan** » Sat Jul 25, 2020 6:43 am

Little cocktail umbrellas hahaha.

try this

farmingnoob · Post by **farmingnoob** » Sat Jul 25, 2020 12:46 pm

Cool! I'm going to make one of those.