Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Bug problem

Somehow we are getting some leaf-eating bugs in the Grow Camp. Might be tiny aphids, which I've seen, or we might have something else like worms. They might have come in while we were working, snuck in through the screens or they might have came in with the new bean plants we got at a local greenhouse. I did find one tomato moth caterpillar and promptly removed it a couple weeks ago. Regardless they seem to be attacking the new bean plants the most.

They are also chowing on the squash and tomatoes a little.


This happened just today so it cannot go unchecked as we've seen plants get eaten in just a couple days before. So I sprayed lightly with some Ortho that has worked well in the past.


Bugs happen. Especially around here. We've lost many plants to them until we started researching and using some of the insecticides available.

Check out the growth in just the last 3 days. The squash leaves are pushing on the screens!






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