Re: Rollie Pollie Ollies
I haven't tried it yet, but I have heard that they work extremely well... beneficial nematodes. The parasitize bugs and grubs that eat your garden, but they don't eat your worms or beneficial microbes. I just got an an email for them from Gardens Alive...
http://www.gardensalive.com/images/email/051904ga.HTML
Let me know if the link doesn't work right. Hope this helps. Like I said, I haven't tried it yet, but I have heard from more than one person that it works great. I was going to try it to get rid of cutworms in my garden, but I am now selling my home (and garden). Probably will try it in my sattelite patch.
Toby
Rich Canter <chaselounge@msn.com> wrote:
Every year in this wacky little town there is one creature that piles up like
a biblical plague. Always something different.
This year it's the lowly rolie polie, AKA-pill bug, sow bug, doodle bug.
Normally they are a simple oddity left over from The Flintstone Era. This year
I drown thousands weekly in the beer traps and it doesn't appear to diminish
the infinite number of them actually eating my garden!
Everything I read on them says that they are harmless and may occasionally
bite a leaf. Not this year in Wimberley, Texas!
I have tried pepper spray, Diatomatious earth, Liquid soap... I think they
grew bigger eating the soap.
Any fail-safe ideas?
I am about to plant my pumpkins and I cant let those little bastards eat my
pumpkins!
I have a ton of earthworms in the soil and would like to keep them, but
everything else can die if it comes to that.
Thanks
Rich
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