Has anyone hear of mixing garlic powder&hose to spray tomato plants beside?to find stale white bugs?does it work? I water the tomato plants every am/pm,so the soil stays showery,is...
I water the tomato plants every am/pm,so the soil stays showery,is that a problem?WHAT are the little white bugs?
Answers: If growing organic tomatoes you may want to read the sticky label on the garlic powder bottle. If you can not recognize the ingredients on the sticky label then it is a funny -garlic tasted-weird-chemical powder sold surrounded by supermarkets to poison us...slowly.
I plant garlic & onions in my veggie garden. They both work great together, and If i start to see any creatures that don't belong in my garden I later spray some dishwashing soap diluted in hose on both top and bottom of the leaves.
When watering your tomatoes, always aim to the soil and not the leaves. Most bugs similar to to chew on moist leaves...caterpillars specially. Better to water the garden surrounded by the morning, right before sunrise.
Mulching beside Organic Compost also help hang on to critters away from your veggie garden. See the video i made in utube to compost contained by as little as 14 days. Link below:
Yes the spray mixture will help and a tricky spray of just dampen from the hose will knock them off too. The little white bugs you describe nouns like white flies. The white flies larva can do a lot of smash up to tomato plants. Could also be aphids same technique to get rid of them they don't fly. Also use sticky plant hanger. These are yellow sticky cardboard baggy on plants trap the bugs. Or make your own use Vaseline and verbs ties to tie on the branches.