beerYesterday while out in the garden checking things out I decided to take a peek at the last years artichoke plant and see if there were any baby chokes popping out. Yes there were ...... two ..... cute little tiny baby artichokes. The only problem was that they were covered in earwigs.
Earwigs disgust me, send shivers down my spine and overall just give me nightmares. They are the most disgusting of disgusting creatures. So needless to say, when I saw my little artichokes were being devoured by them I sprung into action.
Neither Dave or I will use pesticides on our fruit trees or vegetable garden. We always will try every method under the sun naturally to eradicate the offenders before the last resort of a pesticide. So in I came ..... googled "earwig control" and found that they can be pretty hard little bastards to get rid of. BUT .....
One of the suggestions was beer. Yes, beer. Now since there is generally a beer or two around here we decided to give it a go last night. So using the suggestion of a jar lid / petri dish and filling with beer at the base of the troubled areas we did just that.
And I anxiously awaited the results.
This morning upon checking it appears that earwigs really do like their beer. Several hundred at the very minimum ..... died drunk and happy. We will keep doing this every night until we see no more earwigs. Teach them to mess with our garden!
So far this year we have managed ants with cinnamon and cayenne pepper / and now the earwigs with beer. The beer is supposed to work with slugs too ..... but didn't capture any of those last night. Really have not seen too many slugs ..... Dave says they are out there though.
The end.
Peace. J.
Earwigs disgust me, send shivers down my spine and overall just give me nightmares. They are the most disgusting of disgusting creatures. So needless to say, when I saw my little artichokes were being devoured by them I sprung into action.
Neither Dave or I will use pesticides on our fruit trees or vegetable garden. We always will try every method under the sun naturally to eradicate the offenders before the last resort of a pesticide. So in I came ..... googled "earwig control" and found that they can be pretty hard little bastards to get rid of. BUT .....
One of the suggestions was beer. Yes, beer. Now since there is generally a beer or two around here we decided to give it a go last night. So using the suggestion of a jar lid / petri dish and filling with beer at the base of the troubled areas we did just that.
And I anxiously awaited the results.
This morning upon checking it appears that earwigs really do like their beer. Several hundred at the very minimum ..... died drunk and happy. We will keep doing this every night until we see no more earwigs. Teach them to mess with our garden!
So far this year we have managed ants with cinnamon and cayenne pepper / and now the earwigs with beer. The beer is supposed to work with slugs too ..... but didn't capture any of those last night. Really have not seen too many slugs ..... Dave says they are out there though.
The end.
Peace. J.
