{"id":8932,"date":"2021-07-09T20:30:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T00:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=8932"},"modified":"2021-07-09T20:30:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T00:30:28","slug":"if-the-drought-wasnt-enough-now-we-have-grasshoppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2021\/07\/09\/if-the-drought-wasnt-enough-now-we-have-grasshoppers\/","title":{"rendered":"If the drought wasn’t enough, now we have grasshoppers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been noticing way more grasshoppers around this year than normal. And now they’re getting bigger, you really notice them as every step you take, you send up a big cloud before you. I have noticed though, there isn’t a single one in the orchard, where our chickens roam. I sure wish I could turn them into some of our gardens where the hoppers are eating our vegetable plants! Unfortunately, those gardens are too far from the house and chicken coop and a predator would get them for sure. The grasshoppers ate the leaves off most of our cabbage family plants or severely so, in the Sand garden and in the Central garden they’re even eating the bean leaves. We powdered the peppers and cabbage family in the Sand garden with pyrethrin powder but are not treating the beans as the damage isn’t severe \u2014 yet. We’re crossing our fingers here\u2026<\/p>\n

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Everywhere you look there are grasshoppers; it’s like a Biblical plague of locusts!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If that wasn’t bad enough, the flea beetles are chewing tiny holes in all of the emerging rutabaga and turnip leaves when the plants are just up so I’ll have to dust them too if we’re going to save any. It’s easy to tell flea beetle damage from grasshopper chewing as the grasshoppers create big scallops in the leaves where the flea beetles just make little pinholes in small leaves of just-emerging plants. This drought is creating a myriad of other problems for us gardeners this year!<\/p>\n

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Despite the bugs this year, we still have nice gardens and flowers like this Gloriosa Daisy in the front bed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Here’s my low-tech watering equipment for a few shorter garden rows. Cute, huh? Gotta get big soon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So far we still have not had any rain, other than a tiny drizzle for a few minutes a few days ago. We’re planning out how to water our far-out gardens effectively. We’ve got a big plastic 400-gallon tank and a few 250 gallon totes so I’m thinking we’ll be putting the big tank in a garden and hauling water to it with the smaller totes and using our little water pump to run hoses and sprinklers out there. This morning I took the ATV out eight times to water in the struggling beet and Swiss chard rows. Whew! It’s not like we don’t have anything else to do, huh? — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been noticing way more grasshoppers around this year than normal. And now they’re getting bigger, you really notice them as every step you take, you send up a big cloud before you. I have noticed though, there isn’t a single one in the orchard, where our chickens roam. I sure wish I could turn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,13,16,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8937,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8932\/revisions\/8937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}