Techniques to Stop Grasshoppers from Eating Flowers and Vegetables

Grow other natural repellents – Planting veggies that grasshoppers don’t like to eat They avoid cilantro, peas, squash, tomatoes and sweet clover.  You can pepper these throughout the garden, along with your garlic, to give grasshoppers a reason to migrate elsewhere for food.

Add Tall Grass to the Outskirts of Your Land. If given the choice, grasshoppers prefer to feast and hide in tall grass. You can use it as a hedge against any grasshoppers, providing them a better habitat than your precious garden.

Rototill your land

You can take advantage of the grasshopper’s life cycle by roto-tilling your land. We know that they lay eggs. This means that rototill can destroy the egg pods and disrupt the life cycle of this pesky green hopper.

Organic Grasshopper Control

If you want to add another grasshopper prevention tool to your garden, consider organic grasshopper sprays and baits.

Some of the following can be homemade and others must be purchased from your garden store or online.

Garlic Spray

Garlic spray has been shown to deal with grasshoppers pretty well. They really don’t like the smell or taste of garlic, so coating your plants in garlic spray is a great way to prevent them from a grasshopper’s hungry appetite.

Wax pepper

Hot pepper wax spray is another application that works by being a disgusting flavor for soft-bodied insects like grasshoppers. They just can’t stand the taste of the cayenne pepper, which is the main ingredient in this concentrated spray.

Neem Oil.

Some gardeners have success with neem oil for grasshopper control, it has been shown to both repel grasshoppers and inhibit their egg-laying process. That disrupts their life-cycle.

Nolo Bait

This is a single-cell organism that will infect and destroy grasshoppers in every stage of their developmental cycle. When using nolo bait, you have to time your application correctly. Grasshoppers that consume this will have their blood poisoned, causing death.

Kaolin Clay

Kaolin clay is a newer type of grasshopper prevention that may be useful to you. It’s a powdered clay that is mixed with water and soap and then sprayed onto the leaf surfaces in your garden. This causes a film to coat the leaf surface, repelling grasshoppers.

Diatomaceous Spray

Diatomaceous earth is a popular garden additive for many different reasons, but most notably because of how it affects pests that you don’t want in the garden. It’s made up of the shells of fossilized algae. When it comes in contact with a soft-bodied insect like a grasshopper, it effectively dehydrates their body, causing them to die.

Pesticidal Soaps​

You can purchase organic pesticidal soaps that can destroy grasshoppers with ease. They contain fatty acids that dissolve the body of the grasshopper immediately upon contact. This causes them to lose water, dehydrating them. Death follows shortly.

Flour Dust​

Some gardeners have gone truly home-made and reported that applying flour dust to their garden has an effect on grasshopper populations. Only use all-purpose flour.  Self-rising and other types have salts which can damage plants.

Beneficial Animals

If you have the luxury of having animals in the garden, you can use them as insect control as well!

Here are two types of animals that are natural predators to grasshoppers.​

Chickens and Guinea Hens

Chickens, guinea hens, and even ducks absolutely love munching on grasshoppers.

Birds

Wild birds also enjoy munching on a hopper from time to time.

Yours in the garden farm2markt. Happy gardening. Happy weekend