CULT: Lantana juice?
- Subject: CULT: Lantana juice?
- From: D* E*
- Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 21:50:01 -0500
Well, the grasshoppers are in plentiful supply here and have voracious
appetites. They are shredding the irises, which they love, at a rapid
pace - they apparently love them. They don't, however, love the lantana.
They will hide in it, but they don't eat it or damage it in any way. So I
was wondering about cutting a good bit of it and squeezing the juice out and
preparing a bit of pump spray with dish detergent for a sticker and spraying
the seedlings. Anyone ever tried anything similar? There are plants the
hoppers don't eat. Wild achillea (yarrow) is one around here. Several
assorted milkweed types of weeds. Also prickly ash, tickle tongue, skunk
bush - whatever you want to call it. I'm thinking in terms of a protective
repellent as opposed to something that kills the grasshoppers. It's one
thing for them to chew up a mature plant anchored on mature rhizomes and
quite another for one to land on a seedling and devour most of the plant in
a few minutes.
Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7b, USA - without a clue as to how to go about squeezing that
juice out and retaining the pungent qualities that may be the repellent
factor.
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