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OK, so I'm expanding my gardening crops beyond the usual tomatoes and peps,
So I seem to be providing a smorgasborg to every frickin beetle in the county. According to my gardening book, I've got flea beetles on my eggplant, striped cucumber beetles on my cucumbers, japanese beetles and mexican bean beetles on my bush beans, tomato hornworms and squash bugs in my tomatoes, and cabbage worms in my cabbage. I'm trying rotenone spray, as it is supposed to be natural, but honestly, I'm about to hit the heavy duty pesticides cause the garden looks mostly like yellow skeletinized ghost plants.
Does soil treatments like grub ex and milky spore disease help much? I'm wondering if anything can be done in advance rather than spraying once you see them?
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