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    Home » Articles » Gardening

    Japanese Beetle Attractant Plant saves the garden

    by Eric · This post may contain affiliate links, its one way we pay the bills. · 5 Comments

    I was pulling weeds in the vegetable garden this weekend, and came across this weed in the basil patch. I was about to pull it when I realized it was full of Japanese beetles, and there were no Japanese beetles on the basil.

    organic japanese beetle control

    This weed is a good japanese beetle control

    This weed was functioning as a Japanese Beetle Attractant Plant, and a neat way to not use Japanese Beetle pesticides and traps. This is one of those simple organic Japanese Beetle controls one can use to deal with the beetles.

    I have yet to identify the weed, as the weed identification sites I have visited have yet to yield an answer.

    But think twice before pulling up a plant that is full of garden pests, its probably keeping those pests from your vegetable plants.

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    1. redpigz

      August 08, 2010 at 9:45 am

      Looks like the weed might be "smartweed"...we have var. "pennsylvania
      smartweed" which looks similar but falls over as it grows larger.

    2. Sweed Test

      September 07, 2010 at 3:37 pm

      hey... your post is awful for my brain lol

    3. JOHN WICKS

      January 26, 2011 at 4:47 pm

      I don't know the name of the weed, but I found also that Japanese Beetles loved to chow down on them. 'Horseradish' was another favorite; the only difference being that the horseradish didn't seem to suffer from the voracious little beggars. (Then again, some consider it a weed )

    4. Cassandra Dworchak

      July 27, 2011 at 12:54 pm

      Hey there - this is the 5 th time I have googled something in the last few months and ended up with one of your articles of videos. Anyway, thanks for the tips. It is nice to see a real person using things on hand and his own ingenuity to get things done. I, too like to garden, DIY and cook so you're site is a great find for me! Cheers from Michigan!!

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