COMMON GARDEN PESTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20024, 14 August 1928, Page 15

COMMON GARDEN PESTS.

controlling woodlige. Woodlice abound in the majority of gardens, and where they are particularly numerous they do considerable damage. Some growers consider them to be harmless, because they have not encountered them in large numbers, but gardeners who have had further experience of these pests could soon disillusion the others. In some cases woodlice are greater pests than slugs and snails. An easy method of controlling these pests which may be employed where they congregate in large numbers is to pour boiling water on them. If their hidingplaces are inacccessible, however, one will have to resort to some other means of control. Woodlice may be kept away from plants by sprinkling powdered moth balls or naphthalene balls round about. These are extremely distasteful to woodlice and plants near which there is any powder sprinkled are not likely to be troubled. This, however, does not destroy the pests, but it effectively protects the plants. * Another remedy which is recommended by experts consists of placing a mixture about the garden. 'lbis mixture consists mainly of oatmeal, the other ingredients being' bichromate of potash, glucose and Water. Fifty parts of oatmeal will require one part of the potassium bichromate, two parts of glucose and 30 parts of Water. The ingredients should be thoroughly mixed, the bichromate being dissolved in water before being added to the others. A spoonful of this mixture placed here and there about the garden should keep voodlice under control.