Tuesday, July 7, 2009

The Bane of My Garden



If you have a garden, you might recognize the enemy above: the Japanese beetle.

These bastards are going after my beans and my collard greens right now, and I need to take them out. I tried some organic pesticide a while back, and I'm pretty sure it made my beans and greens taste a little funky.

So after some cursory research, it seems like catnip is a natural repellant. I need to get some soon.

2 comments:

Aaron said...

I have seen a few of these on my grape vine. My biggest problem is with the small light brown beetles (I assume they are beetles) that are eating my okra plants. Now thems is bastards.

Quintilian B. Nasty said...

They haven't fooled much with my okra, and they don't seem to be disturbing my kale (knock on wood on both counts). I just ordered some catnip seeds, which I'm told grows quickly. But now I'm pulling carrots, a veggie the beetles can't get to.