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2022/05/22 cool morning again
“excite the earwigs’ senses”
Reading about organic deterrents and trapping and came across this quote: “Add a few drops of bacon grease or oil from the tuna can to excite the earwigs’ senses.”
Earwigs indoors 😤
We mixed up neem oil concentrate with water according to the directions (~0.4 g oil per 2 oz water ie the size of our little glass spritzer bottles), and spritzed all the baby plants. We’ve seen three earwigs inside near the plants since repotting last night and several tomatillos, peppers, and chamomile look a bit worse for the wear.
Indoor repotting
Dangit
Home to a mystery solved
Wes reported that the chijimisai greens were all eaten up, and they live in the plant window. This morning I found at least three Cabbage White caterpillars on them. The plants were only outside for part of a day or two!! Ugh!!!