Comments on: Square Foot Gardening – Update #3

By: heather

heather — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:08:41 +0000

The best thing to do about bean beetles is pick them off and squish them. Let the kiddos do it. Have squished many a bean beetle in my day

By: paula

paula — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:36:11 +0000

A good multipurpose spray for gardens is as follows (gotten from Patricia Lanza, The lasagna gardening) They are beetles in your garden. Mix 1 ounce murphy oil soap with one gallon of water and mist on plants. You can also take one bulb garlic, one onion, put in blender with 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper powder and one quart water. Let sit overnite and then strain, spray liquid on the plants but keep away from your eyes, skin and wear gloves. Good luck.

By: michelle

michelle — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:58:31 +0000

i love to win all three

By: Melisa

Melisa — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:56:43 +0000

The garden is looking so good! We always planted marigolds in the garden because some bugs don’t like the way they smell. It doesn’t work for all bugs, though. Occasionally, we had to resort to Sevin Dust. Organic is great, but when you’ve babied those plants and worked and sweated over them and the bugs are just killing them overnight, well, you do what you have to. Living in the boonies makes fancy organic methods harder to come by. The internet has helped that a lot, though. I hope you find a good solution.

By: Megan

Megan — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:15:40 +0000

My mother in law suggests simmering garlic for a long time until you get a concentrated juice. Then spray that on the garden. it seems to be working for us! Good luck and great looking garden!

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:25:39 +0000

Oh, I miss our huge basil plants from our last house. I would harvest it and make big batches of basil and freeze them into 1/4 cup “hockey pucks” that I could defrost, reconsistute with a little olive oil, and use — with pasta, on pizza, and in YUMMY pesto swirl bread…

By: susan

susan — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:17:02 +0000

ohh…i’m jealous of your garden. none for me this year. we’re still getting frost & freeze warnings. i’ve never had much success anyway with my super-short growing season.

By: Holly

Holly — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:30:19 +0000

As for the Basil… you can pick it anytime you want As you cut it back, it will branch out and become bushy and full. You will have all the basil you (and your neighbors, and freinds, and family) can use Enjoy!
I just got 4 ears of corn, and a bunch of carrots, a bell pepper and some hot peppers out of my garden Gotta LOVE Spring!

By: Jenelle

Jenelle — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:55:06 +0000

I was just reading in a book that applying rock lime to the bean plants help to discourage beetles. Maybe you could try that.

Your garden looks gorgeous by the way!

Jenelle

By: Tonya

Tonya — Sun, 31 May 2009 13:40:24 +0000

We are keeping our garden organic and so we have chosen to use both a protective netting to protect the zucchini from bugs and cayenne pepper to protect everything else. Just take a handful and sprinkle away. (Make sure you throw some up under the leaves too) Bugs hate this! Works great…… Just wash hands good when you are done.