Rennie564
Padawan Learner
This was our first year putting in a garden in a new state, with a whole new ecosystem. We used to live in a northern climate. Now in a southern climate. At first, everything went wonderfully! The herbs, peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, were growing and getting big.
And then the farms in our area started spraying the cotton fields and tobacco fields. OMG. The insects flee those fields in to the areas were homes are. We woke up one morning to find so many squash bugs crawling on the sunflowers and pumpkin vines that you could see them from a distance. Then the colorado potato beetle showed up and started chewing its way through eggplants and tomato leaves. We diligently picked everything off by hand. A week later....army worm invasion. And they were so bad they killed the tomato plants in one day. I picked 89 armyworms off one plant. (my lovely daughter counted them for fun lol)
What preventative measures can I use next year? Does anyone else have issues organically growing when industrial farms are nearby?
And then the farms in our area started spraying the cotton fields and tobacco fields. OMG. The insects flee those fields in to the areas were homes are. We woke up one morning to find so many squash bugs crawling on the sunflowers and pumpkin vines that you could see them from a distance. Then the colorado potato beetle showed up and started chewing its way through eggplants and tomato leaves. We diligently picked everything off by hand. A week later....army worm invasion. And they were so bad they killed the tomato plants in one day. I picked 89 armyworms off one plant. (my lovely daughter counted them for fun lol)
What preventative measures can I use next year? Does anyone else have issues organically growing when industrial farms are nearby?