Gardening

[katiesue]

Peppers


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Dwarf Lemon Tree. I've only had one lemon as all the buds keep getting eaten.


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[katiesue]

I'll try the beer. The only thing I've seen out there are snails. Nothing flying like grasshoppers. No caterpillars. And they only seem to devour those three plants and sometimes the apple.

I've sprayed all kinds of stuff on them an nothing seems to do anything. Especially on the lemon and pepper plant. And I've had 3 or 4 basil plants. Whatever it is devours those down to the stubs in under a week.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by katiesue

Looks like we needed a gardening thread.

My issue is snails, I think. They're devouring my lemon tree, pepper plant and hibiscus. And they munch a bit on the apple tree. Any ideas on how to get them to stop?

Have you tried using plastic plants? They can be very realistic and tough as nails.

[katiesue]

Actually my best friends Mom has a notorious brown thumb. If you put silk plants too near sunlight, they will turn brown also.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Silk plants, ugh.

The beer works wonders. However, I once saw a wasp cut a big piece off of a leaf on my bell pepper plant. I'm convinced they did the bulk of the fatal damage to those and certain other plants I have. We get tons of wasps and our tangerine tree attracts even more of them. I believe they eat tiny bugs that live on the tree so it's all a tradeoff. I have no idea how to repel them anyway.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Now that we have the bird feeder (with plenty of activity), we might be in better shape.

[Betty]

Beatles eating them perhaps? or grasshoppers / katydids?

[katiesue]

The only vermin I can see are snails -and there are lots of them. Trying the beer tonight, I'll see what that does.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Oddly, it never occurred to me until just now that it might be the gigantic cricket population in our backyard destroying the plants.

[Ghoulish Delight]

To clarify, it is a large population of crickets, not a population of large crickets.