Comments on: Weekend Gardening: Catering To Stink Bugs

By: dad

dad — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 03:05:03 +0000

I had tons of stink bugs last year. I heard since that one can use a hand vac and suck them up. I’m going to try that this year.

By: Just An Old Soldier

Just An Old Soldier — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 05:31:02 +0000

Prefer not to use pesticides…I know that some are good against these nasty bugs, but I’d rather harvest good ol’ homegrowns without the chemicals.

I started covering the fruits so that they aren’t as tempting with this white cloth material – seems to work well on squash and tomatoes, hard to manage with beans. I’ll be trying the buckwheat, as I hear it’s a great green manure once it’s tilled under. Aready have the sunflowers in another area that are drawing the bug away a bit.

Good article! Thanks, William!

By: friction against the machine

friction against the machine — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 01:18:08 +0000

If u have a restricted use pesticide license buy some penn cap m……kills em dead on contact….forget that organic junk

By: OldMarine

OldMarine — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 00:17:58 +0000

Ivory dish soap in water is what I spray.
added some cheap perfume , Imagine it smells bad to a stink bug .

Head Scratch

By: Just An Old Soldier

Just An Old Soldier — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 20:33:59 +0000

These bugs are great for spreading plant disease around too, even if they don’t prefer the garden plants they sample, they still ruin some that they “sample”, and the little ones they produce are voracious on vine plants like pole beans. The adults like to stab into the ripe tomatoes so when they are really bad I pick ‘em green.

I try to use soapy water in a spray bottle to keep them off some of my plants. It works when you spray the bugs directly, but doesn’t give lasting protection.