Just Veggies

A New Control Method for Earwigs

Earwigs have been devastating my vegetable garden this year. They’ve been running rampant in my garden and yard for a few years now, but this summer I finally had confirmation that earwigs were the culprit of some pretty darn-awful chewing damage on the leaves of nearly every purposefully grown plant (i.e. everything but the weeds) ...

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 ...