You are essentially using it as a trap crop. Keep the garlic mustard that grow in the peripher away from the plants you want to protect in a way they will cover the sent of those plants. They will work as a decoy for the bugs and can be destroyed like this. I use a hanging planter of mint as a trap crop for aphids and just snip of the infested tips regularly.
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Bad bugs on bad weeds. Not fun!
Those are so good I used to pick them & make stir fry with & now what about invasive Asian beetles
I think Klaus Schwab has other plans for those Harlequin Bugs. Lol
put them in a bag, and freeze them. give it to the birds in the winter
You are essentially using it as a trap crop. Keep the garlic mustard that grow in the peripher away from the plants you want to protect in a way they will cover the sent of those plants. They will work as a decoy for the bugs and can be destroyed like this. I use a hanging planter of mint as a trap crop for aphids and just snip of the infested tips regularly.
If you MUST kill them, could you please just squish them? Instead of making them slowly die through suffocation/drowning? ☹️