Gardening & Landscaping
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Organic Gardeners
Is using soapy water to spray your plants for bugs, particularly flea beetles, still being organic? I feel like it's a chemical, but it's just liquid dish soap and I'd wash my veggies in it. I'm just trying to figure out how to save my eggplants!
Re: Organic Gardeners
yes, insecticidal soap consistent with organic gardening.
I mean, I guess you could say water is a chemical after all...
However, you may not find insecticidal soap will help very much with flea beetles. See page 3 of this PDF:
http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/PDF/fleabeetle.pdf
I battled flea beetles about a month ago- tried a couple of organic sprays, but they weren't terribly helpful. Things only turned around when beneficial insects 'discovered' my raised bed and now the damage has decreased quite a bit.
this is what my plant leaf looks like now.