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Bugs bugs bugs and wasted energy growing veggies.

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lostmind

So I see some of my cabbages are finally ready so I pull one up. It's infested from the inside out with earwigs, who have eaten 90% of the interior leaves...

Pulled up a parsnip cuz it was all wilted looking even though I'd just watered. Some sort of maggot-like infestation. Grabbed a turnip, same problem. Checked my carrots... no problem. lucky I guess.

Next year I'm going to grow my cabbages, parsnips & turnips in a raised bed.. gotta figure out how to cover them... and I will use nothing but bagged potting soil to try and mitigate the ability of these pests to infiltrate.

Or maybe I just grow nothing but peppers, beans, zucchini, lettuce, carrots, kale, chard, beets and herbs next year.
 
I had the same problem a few years back and just gave up on vegs. Just too much time and effort if you don't have a greenhouse or growing them in hydro to avoid all the soil based infestations.
 
It's nuts, last year I seemed to avoid some of these problems and actually got to eat my stuff but this year...

well at least the peppers are doing great!
 
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