Eggplant and row covers

GoDawgs · June 19, 2020

I don't think flea beetles ever go away! However there seems to be less of them this year (at least so far). I don't know whether a wet spring had anything to do with it or maybe some early preventative spraying helped. I put some permethrin on all empty beds early in the season. You could see them scurrying! A month or two later I reapplied and so far there aren't many.

The only things that have hit the eggplant so far have been a few Japanese beetles lacing up the leaves. But the eggplant is with the tomatoes up by the house, not in the garden so that might have helped too.

June 19, 2020	#4
GoDawgs Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2018 Location: Augusta area, Georgia, 8a/7b Posts: 1,685	I don't think flea beetles ever go away! However there seems to be less of them this year (at least so far). I don't know whether a wet spring had anything to do with it or maybe some early preventative spraying helped. I put some permethrin on all empty beds early in the season. You could see them scurrying! A month or two later I reapplied and so far there aren't many. The only things that have hit the eggplant so far have been a few Japanese beetles lacing up the leaves. But the eggplant is with the tomatoes up by the house, not in the garden so that might have helped too.