What are your favorite pest control methods?

Tracydr · June 15, 2016

I like Neem,spinosad,DE,sluggo plus. Trying neem meal this year. Soaps and hand picking are important,too.
I have June bugs on my asparagus. Got to watch and assassin bug eating one Sunday while I was hand picking stink bugs and June bugs off. I also have lots of wasps,praying mantids and hover flies. Spraying with blasts of water,which I can't do now because I don't have running water,yet.
A lot of times organic gardening requires allowing a little damage while you wait for the Calvary to arrive or the organic pesticide to work.
I also have a peacock and gunieas that fly in to eat grasshoppers and slugs/snails. Ducks are even better but mine got eaten by fox and Hawks. Hope to get some more this year.

June 15, 2016	#40
Tracydr Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2011 Location: Laurinburg, North Carolina, zone 7 Posts: 3,207	I like Neem,spinosad,DE,sluggo plus. Trying neem meal this year. Soaps and hand picking are important,too. I have June bugs on my asparagus. Got to watch and assassin bug eating one Sunday while I was hand picking stink bugs and June bugs off. I also have lots of wasps,praying mantids and hover flies. Spraying with blasts of water,which I can't do now because I don't have running water,yet. A lot of times organic gardening requires allowing a little damage while you wait for the Calvary to arrive or the organic pesticide to work. I also have a peacock and gunieas that fly in to eat grasshoppers and slugs/snails. Ducks are even better but mine got eaten by fox and Hawks. Hope to get some more this year.