Finding bugs eating your plants can be quite discouraging especially when you have no idea what to do about them, so here is a page dedicated to fighting the good fight against garden pests with home remedies.
Slugs come out at night congregating in moist areas and absolutely love those leafy greens. I hear a little bit of beer in a bottle laying on the ground can trap a few though it hasn't worked a bit for me. Coffee ground sprinkled around the plant works a charm and is by far the best method in my opinion. A third method is to lay little bits of crushed eggshell around the plant. And of course there's always doing it the o.g. way, going out there and hunting them down, drown them or squish them? You can have it your way. Click here to read the lowdown on slugs.
Grasshoppers, adults and babies alike can devour your leafy greens, sometimes faster than they can grow. Spraying your greens under attack with a dishsoap liquid solution made of 2tbsp of dishsoap/1gal of water works ever so slightly to slow them down. However dusting the plant with baking flour works even better, it doesn't put an end to it but does slow down the hoppers quite a bit, more so than the dishsoap and water solution in my experience. The only downside to the baking flour method is having to re-dust every time the plant gets wet. Click here to read the lowdown on grasshoppers.
Figeater Beetles aren't called Figeater Beetles for nothing, they next in fig trees mating and eating ripe figs, unfortunately figs aren't the only soft-fleshed fruit these beetles have an appetite for. Although rather harmless to humans they do pose as nuisance to your soft-flesh fruiting trees. I have yet to find a good method of getting rid of the clumsy-flying insects but have seen that manually picking them out and squashing them underfoot seems to do the trick. Another much easier way would be to simply pick the soft-fleshed fruit as soon as they are ripe so that the beetles will not be able to get to them.
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