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Use these tips to get rid of Japanese beetles.
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Prevent Japanese Beetles From Eating Your Plants!
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Do Indian Summer Raspberries need to be winterized? If so, how. I live in Southern NJ.
Hi there! You do need to winterize raspberries in your zone. Try this:
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Continue watering the raspberries long after the plants have stopped producing fruit, and don't hold off on watering until the first frost. This extended watering prevents over-drying during the winter and also helps harden the plants and prepare them for the cold.
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Remove any of the brown canes that produced fruit during the summer but leave the green canes alone. When pruning the canes, cut them down to the soil level.
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Bury the remaining raspberry canes if these are new plants that haven't experienced winter yet, as these plants are extra-sensitive to winter's chills. Push the flexible canes down to the ground and bury them under a couple shovelfuls of dirt.
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Erect a simple fence barrier around the raspberry bush, as raspberries attract rabbits and other pests during the winter who like to feed on the plant's stems. Use traditional 1/4-inch mesh wire, which you can buy at garden stores and nurseries. The fence should go 3 inches into the soil, to keep rabbits from digging under it, and stand 20 inches above the soil to keep rabbits from jumping over it.
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Pruning shears
Garden spade
1/4-inch mesh wire
Some raspberry varieties have thorns, although most domestic varieties have had this tendency bred out of them. If your raspberry bush has thorns, wear gloves and a long-sleeved shirt to protect yourself when handling the plant.
I live in Maine and found beetles eating my chamomile; plus other plants. I was told they were Japanese Beetles, but they looked liked coffee beans; they did not have the green metallic. They are in the soil...many of them. Do you have any idea what type of beetle it is?
Thanks, Annie
A type of milkweed plants were covered/infested
with these beetles this morning at Home Depot on Atlantic Boulevard this morning in Jacksonville, Florida. It was brought to the attention of the employees.
I just went out to deadhead some geraniums - they did not fare well in recent storms - and found several Japanese Beetles nibbling away. I am surprised since geraniums are not often targeted by insects. Any comment?
Thank you for the info.
Over several days, I have been hand-picking scores of Japanese beetles off my young trees and rose bushes and dropping them into a bucket of soapy dish water effectively killing them. My question is this: are these beetles coming solely from my property or are they coming from neighboring properties as well. If they are coming mostly from my property, based upon my kill rate, then my lawn must be loaded with them?? Yes or no
I found a great solution for the Japanese Beetle last year! I was sick from seeing the beetles covering and devouring my rose bushes. I took a spray bottle filled with hydrogen peroxide and sprayed them....they dropped instantly on a plastic tarp and died on the spot. I didn't have a single beetle left on my bushes and the peroxide acted like a fertilizer to the bushes. The leaves all grew back and the plants were covered with hundreds of beautiful roses. Didn't look like it affected bees at all. I sprayed the plants when the bees were at there homes. Cheap and easy solution!
I'm going to try it on all my plants if I see those critters again this year. I'm thinking about trying a spray of a peroxide/water solution on my lawn also. I'll let you know how that does.
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