Cooping With Vegetable Garden Bugs

Information about garden bugs and slugs and how to get rid of them.

Bugs can be a big problem for most backyard gardeners. A few types of bugs can damage any crop. For a few insects it will only take a few hours!

Let’s take a look at a few of the common vegetable backyard garden pests.

We will take a minute to check out how to identify them, and a method to get rid of them.

1. Garden Pest: Aphids

This garden pest, the Aphid is one of the most common pest in most vegetable gardens. You will most often see bunches of these kinds of small almost transparent bodied insects in a variety of colors.

You may find Aphids that are yellow.

To Rid Your Vegetable Garden of Aphids

1. One method for ridding your garden of Aphids is to pick them off the plants manually. It works but is very time consuming.

2. One method for getting rid of Aphids is to use Neem Oil or an insecticidal soap.

3. I personally think using Lady Bugs to get rid of Aphids is a pretty cool method, plus I love watching Lady Bugs in action.

2. Garden Pest: Beetles

There are a lot of beetles that like to munch on your veggie garden. There are specific beetles for individual kinds of veggies, like potato beetles. There is a rather lengthy list of them meaning you’re going to need to focus on each type of beetle for the remedy that will get rid of them.

Beetles may be cute but they can also be quite annoying when you see all the leaves they can munch down in a day. They’re not so cute after that.

Like other vegetable garden pests you could pick them off one at a time. That’s fine when you’re out in the yard working and see one or two but if you have an infestation you can turn to sprays and insecticides which poison them.

3. Garden Pest: Borers

Borers get into the stems of plants like melons, squashes, cucumbers, and pumpkins and eats them until they can’t get any more nutrition from Mother Earth.

You’ll notice the leaves start to wilt, and you may find a hole in the stem where they bore into the plant. You have to cut the borers out of the plants. If the borer is found at the base, you’ll have to destroy the whole plant. You can use insecticide to try to prevent these.

4. Garden Pest: Grubs

I noticed my strawberries, on the north side of our property, weren’t doing so well. I decided to transplant some to the south side of the yard where they would get a lot more direct sun. That’s when I discovered dozens of big fat white grubs hiding under my strawberries. I am sure I found at least one with each shovel full of dirt.

Beetle grubs can be controlled with a few soil treatments using milky spore. As they continue feeding on the roots and vegetable matter in your garden soil they will take in some milky spores which will do them in over time. It works slow and slower as temperatures drop. The spore will germinate and increase in their blood. This process continues until the grub just can’t survive.

5. Garden Pest: Cutworms

The easiest way of knowing you have cutworm problems is when you see they have cut your plants off at ground level. Very annoying. Really about the only way to control these guys is to find them first and stomp on them or you can put a protective layer between the stem and the muncher. Put it about an inch above and below the surface. They will be looking for you tomatoes, peppers and cabbages.

6. Garden Pest: Corn Earworm

Corn earworms will eat the kernels off of the cobs while the corn is still on the stalk.

Use a couple of drops of mineral or corn oil right on the top of the ear where the silk is. This may cause the tip to turn brown but we just cut the tip off and enjoy the rest, which is just fine. Destroy the entire plant at the end of the season, even the root so they won’t come back next year.

7. Garden Pest: Slugs

My first year growing zucchinnis I encountered problems with slugs. I tried getting them drunk on beer hoping they would fall in the bowl and drown but that didn’t seem to work. I think my neighbour was out after dark drinking my beer. So I went out and bought a package of Slug-B-Gone and they soon were.

8. Garden Pest: Tomato Hornworm

Tomato hornworms are one of the scariest looking garden pests. They eat the leaves and fruits of tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants. They are large, fat, green and white worms that look like caterpillars.

They have a large horn that looks like a stinger. You can remove them with gloved hands and drown them in soapy water. You can also spray with neem oil, stomach poison insecticide, or Bacillus thuringiensis.

We have only been vegetable gardening for a few years but each year we learn more about getting rid of garden pests.

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