Here are a couple of the most common fall vegetable garden pests. You are bound to encounter insects like aphids, and cabbage loopers in your garden. These beginner friendly gardening tips to help deal with pest insects in your vegetable garden can go a long way to helping you have a successful garden!
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comes to pest control in the garden, early detection is crucial. So, just take a few minutes and look over your plants, especially for things like aphids. If aphids are allowed to get established on the plants, then they can really set them back. By going in and looking through, you’ll find whether there are any aphids, especially deep in there. Oh, here’s a cabbage looper. This little thing here can certainly do some damage to the plants. I worry more about these on the leafy plants, but a lot of these holes that are here are probably caused by this little guy. So, those can be removed. They can also be controlled with basillusingensis, a bacteria that kills caterpillars. I really especially want to find issues like this. See these dark spots here? Those are aphids. And here are some aphids. See how this leaf is all curled? Aphids are a vector for disease and as they damage the leaf, they can really infect the plant. So these big gray patches, these need to be removed. I prefer mechanical removal. I can just smush them and get rid of them that way. If you need to, you can also use a sprayer like this. And horicultural oil or neem oil are good options. And these can be applied to the plant as long as it’s cool out, 85 degrees or less. Otherwise, the plant can suffocate. So, catching these while they’re first getting started is really crucial. Otherwise, they can really set back the plant and do a lot of damage. And they also multiply very quickly. Protect your plants with just a little bit of observation and to take quick action. And that’ll really keep you from getting infestations that are difficult to control.
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