- Help! Slugs and snails in your Planty Garden
- Pests in your vegetable garden?
- How can you help the bees?
- Pests: aphids to caterpillars in the vegetable garden
- Moss in your MM-Mix?
- Mushrooms in the Planty Garden
- How to identify and get rid of mildew
- Why are my zucchinis falling off?
- Why are my plants turning yellow?
- Cabbage whites and holes in your plants
- How to identify and treat tomato blight
- Make your garden unappealing to slugs
- Garlic spray for slugs
- Make a barrier to keep out slugs and snails
- Slugs: is it impossible to get rid of them?
- How to trap slugs and snails
- How to kill slugs and snails
- Killing slugs: cruel or good?
- Help! Slugs and snails in your Planty Garden
- Pests in your vegetable garden?
- How can you help the bees?
- Pests: aphids to caterpillars in the vegetable garden
- Moss in your MM-Mix?
- Mushrooms in the Planty Garden
- How to identify and get rid of mildew
- Why are my zucchinis falling off?
- Why are my plants turning yellow?
- Cabbage whites and holes in your plants
- How to identify and treat tomato blight
- Make your garden unappealing to slugs
- Garlic spray for slugs
- Make a barrier to keep out slugs and snails
- Slugs: is it impossible to get rid of them?
- How to trap slugs and snails
- How to kill slugs and snails
- Killing slugs: cruel or good?
Pests in the garden: from aphids to caterpillars
Aphids and ants
Some predatory insects eat aphids in the spring as their first food source. Later, they move on to mites. So, aphids are also an important link in the food chain.
How do you limit the damage?
Natural repellents
Diatomaceous earth, or celite
Caterpillars
Ants
On the other hand, they aerate and mix the soil, eat organic waste, and are themselves food for many other animals.
Leaf miners
- Remove the infested leaves, especially from leafy greens.
- Use the MM-Muts crop cover or place insect over your garden box in time.
- Spray with diatomaceous earth spray if necessary.
Grubs
If you see a wilted plant, look for the larvae in the soil mix and dig them out. If you can't find them, put a piece of potato in the vegetable patch. When you dig it up again a few days later, there's a big chance you'll find them.
Leather jackets
Woodlice
Bean fly
Cabbage fly
- Place a crop cover like the MM-Muts over your cabbage plants to prevent flies from laying eggs on the roots.
- Place around all your kale or cabbage plants. You can make your own from cardboard or old bicycle tubes. Cut a circle 10 cm in diameter. Place it around the base of the plant's stalk.
- Create confusion by putting many different strongly scented plants in and around your garden box.
Carrot fly
- Always harvest your square patch of carrots completely. The fly can easily overwinter in left-behind carrots.
- Use the MM-Muts crop cover or insect netting.
- Ward them off by planting strong-smelling plants like garlic, onion, shallot, or leek nearby.
- When thinning, use scissors to minimize plant damage and release scents.
(Leaf) beetles
Potato flea beetles
Earwigs - often a blessing, not a curse
Long story short
Problems
- Help! Slugs and snails in your Planty Garden
- Pests in your vegetable garden?
- How can you help the bees?
- Pests: aphids to caterpillars in the vegetable garden
- Moss in your MM-Mix?
- Mushrooms in the Planty Garden
- How to identify and get rid of mildew
- Why are my zucchinis falling off?
- Why are my plants turning yellow?
- Cabbage whites and holes in your plants
- How to identify and treat tomato blight
- Make your garden unappealing to slugs
- Garlic spray for slugs
- Make a barrier to keep out slugs and snails
- Slugs: is it impossible to get rid of them?
- How to trap slugs and snails
- How to kill slugs and snails
- Killing slugs: cruel or good?