How does one get rid of these critters in a sane organic matter?? We are strictly organic and rotate everything every year in the garden, but obviously you can't rotate your asparagus and the beetles have found it! This always sort of amazes me as how did they find my asparagus out in the middle of nowhere?!
I am beginning to think that these plants that attract specific bugs and beetles send out some kind of a homing beacon to call in the troops where ever they are kind of like E.T. Phone home! I have an awful time with sow bugs and strawberries no matter what I do. I read somewhere once that if you go out in the early morning with a bucket of soapy water and shake the beetles off the plant into the water it kills them but you have to do this everyday faithfully so that they do not get a chance to breed. I do not know if it works. Eileen
Asparagus Beetles
Posted - Jul 11 2005 : 10:00:59 AM
