Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

I don't use the method yet however have had some success with different ways to alleviate stink bugs or squash bugs I call them (and sometimes Devil Bugs!).

This year I am culminating all of my methods into one using a five-pronged attack: Diatomaceous Earth (DE), trellising, Spinosaid, Surround (which is a Kaolin clay product that is a physical barrier) and a bazillion marigolds on the perimeter and strewn about the plants as well.

Being that we are on six acres with hay stacks, wood stacks, debris anywhere, there is no way for me to kill them and expect them not to come back.

I hope to report in August that I have only seen minimal bugs and that they have moved on!

From: MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com [mailto:MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ruth Ann Martin
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2014 4:45 PM
To: MittleiderMethodGardening@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [MittleiderMethodGardening] Stink bugs

Veda: About 4 years ago we were invaded by stink bugs. They got in our house and were all over our windows on one side of our house in the spring. I went out and checked the area they were located and found a pile of leaves in the corner of the house where thousands of them were. My son took the vacuum cleaner out and vacuumed them all up and we haven't had any problem since then. I think they thrive in cycles. They are breeding somewhere. You need to find out where that is and kill them there.

On Sunday, February 16, 2014 6:35 PM, April Stanfield <aprilstanfield@gmail.com> wrote:

Steve,
If your gardens are being watered daily, do you reapply the DE after each watering?
We also are on year three of squash bugs and I believe this year I'm going to have to do without squash or cucumbers...it's too much time and money to have to give up in mid June when I can't stay on top of the eggs being laid everywhere.
On Feb 16, 2014 2:50 PM, "Steve Holden" <sah@nutritionucanlivewith.com<mailto:sah@nutritionucanlivewith.com>> wrote:

For the stinkbugs, I have used Diatomaceous Earth with great success.
Just sprinkle it liberally around the plants and reapply after it rains.

A dog or cat for the squirrels .

On 2/16/2014 11:47 AM, fiddlewoman1@yahoo.com<mailto:fiddlewoman1@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Jim and group
>
> In the last 3 years we have 2 serious gardening problems that I can't
> find solutions to.
>
> 1) we have been invaded by stink bugs, and no matter what I have
> tried, they had managed to totally ruin our cucumbers and squash. We
> have removed all the debris, even used a burner to torch any left over
> debris, and possible hiding places for bugs, and still they
> have killed our crops.
>
> 2) Squirrels have developed a taste for my delicious heritage
> tomatoes, and eat most of them - or rather, take one bite and toss
> them down. They start with green ones. They even run up and down my
> plants which are strung up to the T frames. My yield has gone from
> bushels to maybe a gallon or two of tomatoes for the whole season. We
> are thinking of making a chicken wire hoop that goes over the T frames
> and is fastened to the ground to attempt to keep them out this year.
>
> My garden has been organic for 20+ years, and used Mittleider for at
> least 6 of those years; and between months of rain, pests and bugs we
> have lost most of it the last three years. We can hardly buy
> vegetables that aren't foreign or sprayed with pesticides here, and
> even farmers markets are full of produce grown using pesticides and
> other things that I don't want to feed my family, and now we can't
> grow the things we love.
>
> Any ideas/suggestions on how to combat these pests would be greatly
> appreciated!!!!!
>
> Veda Bafford
>
>

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