Reply With Quotedisolve a tablespoone of coffe with a bit of water then add milk. let that sit until it has curdled(best to make it in a spray bottle) then spray your veg..
works for most bugs i have found
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Help! Bugs eating my eggplant, & capsicums
Hello,
I am a new gardener and very unknowledgable! there is some bug eating my eggplant and capsicums! I have sprayed Pyrethrum (sp?) and also a natural garlic (and something?) spray but still seems to be hapening
Any tips? really want home grown veges for summer!
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disolve a tablespoone of coffe with a bit of water then add milk. let that sit until it has curdled(best to make it in a spray bottle) then spray your veg..
works for most bugs i have found
If it's a crawling (ie snail, slug or caterpillar) bug, you can wash and crush eggshells and sprinkle them around the base of the plant because the crawling bugs don't like the feeling of the rough edges on their bellies. I find grinding the eggshells in a coffee grinder or with a mortar and pestle is the best way to do it, you want small but not too fine a ground.
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Sort of need to know what sort of bug it is. If you can't see the bug can you describe the type of eating that they are doing? Are they eating little holes in the leaves or are they munching from the outside in?
Egg plants and capsicum are generally quite bug resistant - I wonder if it isn't a slightly larger bug like a possum...
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Hi Muppity,
Looks like a bug, it is small holes in the leaves - all over!!!! inside and outside, but I can't see any bugs - just where they have been!
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Hmm...all over you say...
May be small caterpillars - are there white butterflies hanging around? If so pyrethrum should have fixed it but remember that phrethrum is a contact spray so if it doesn't tougch them then it doesn't work. Or could be one of the nasty lady beetles (we don't get any here so I don't know much about them)
You could try something like white oil.
Sorry that I can't be more help
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I have the same thing! But something ate our capsicum seedling down to the soil! Woke up one day and found it nibbled, then a bit more then the whole thing was gone!!! I did see a tiny green cricket on the plant next to it.... could this be what's done it?
We also have a ds plus a cat and dog so have to be careful what we use.
Who would have thought gardening would be this hard!!!
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Tell me bout it! everyone else seems to be able to grow veges except me!
Who would have thought gardening would be this hard!!!
Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
Bastard MOTHS! To really get them you need to turn over all the leaves and check underneath. These things are stealth destructors. Watch for the caterpillers that lie along the veins of the leaf, they can be hard to see, but once you have your eye in - watch out!
If you are spraying, spray under the leaves.
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