Jackpine Radical Gardening

[sadoldgirlMember Total Posts: 736 @sadoldgirl]

I have asked this before, but got no reply. So here I go

again: We are plagued with the Japanese beetle. Thus I give up

on my dahlias for this year. Does anyone know whether these

pestilent critters eat lilies as well? After all, I am unwilling to

grow only Black-eyed Susan and Marygolds. My information

about Geranium plants is that they have to be in pots on the

concrete, so that one can squash the temporarily stunned

beetles.

[alcinaDonor Total Posts: 522 @alcina]

Reply To: I have asked this before, but got no reply. So here I go

Yes, they absolutely do eat lilies. Decimated my stargazers and white Oriental lilies. Didn’t touch the tiger lilies or wood lilies, though. And of course, the day lilies (which aren’t really lilies) were spared.  They also enjoyed the roses and echinacea, though not to the same extent.

"I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature." -William Golding, Lord of the Flies

[sadoldgirlMember Total Posts: 736 @sadoldgirl]

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Thanks! And damnation! I just ordered several

oriental ones. Thus now I have to look for the

Tiger ones. Those beetles have shown up here around

the beginning of July. I tried for a time to fight them

with Cedar oil for a while, but stopped after a while.

So I will see none of my roses from July on, which is

sad, because I have more than 10 bushes. I just got

some Larkspur and Delphinium seeds to start, because

they were spared last year.

[Ohio BarbarianModerator Total Posts: 12,750 @ohiobarbarian]

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I understand tiger lilies are resistant. Japanese beetles are nasty little buggers.

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[sadoldgirlMember Total Posts: 736 @sadoldgirl]

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Thanks, you can say that again! Just because a few

of us on our block used the milky spore it won’t keep them

away, since they travel happily within a 5 mile radius.

Even our Botanic Garden suffers severely.

 

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