what are some good pest controls for grapes?

Question

red flame
thompson

Answer 1

Depends on the pests. Have you SEEN any pests or are you doing a preemptive strike? If you have seen a pest (or damage) you can do something, otherwise you are just poisoning yourself and the environment. With that said, the University of California, Davis has a lovely website with a LOT of information about controlling pests in different types of plants. http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/GARDEN/FRUIT/grapes.html <-- specific for grapes

Answer 2

You can buy ladybirds at home improvement stores, not too expensive. They eat a lot of pests, and they might like your grapes enough to hang around to do a good job. Of course the king of all natural pest controls is the bat, each of which consumes some 10,000 pests each night. Toads are second, in one season, they can eat a few thousand slugs.

Answer 3

My grapes grow up on arbors. Ive never used pest control but of course if you dont opick them when ripened immediatly, the birds love them.
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