Just Veggies

Earwigs on Vegetable Plants: Leave Them or Remove Them?

I have a population of earwigs eating its way through my garden and I didn’t even know it. Each morning I would walk out to my garden—about 50 yards from my door—and see that the leaves of my Swiss chard, beets and pepper plants had new dime-sized holes in them. Each subsequent day the holes ...

Japanese Beetles on Vegetable Plants

Japanese beetles are devastating my veggies. Not surprising, really, since I did have a severe outbreak of grubs—from which Japanese beetles develop—in my vegetable garden’s soil over the last two months. The grubs (the larval form of the beetle) have now grown up, emerged from the ground and become the devastating chewers that they are. ...