Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Sick zukes?

I'm not sure what's going on here but one of my zucchini plants has come down with some bad leaf acne. This can't be good. Any ideas on what it could be?

Next weekend I may whip up a batch of garlic and cayenne tea to spray on the leaves. This is allegedly an effective organic herbicide...or a bunch of hooey.

5 comments:

Stunned Donor said...

Ooooh some sort of insect damage, probably a beetle. Get something like a pyrethrin inssecticidal soap if you want go organic. The beetles will be hiding on the underside of the leaves.

William Hoffman said...

Will give it a shot. Is pyrethrin really organic?

Anonymous said...

Please do not leave any infected Zuchs at your parent's door!

Anonymous said...

I thought John and George were dead, so you only have to deal with two of them.

Stunned Donor said...

pyrethrin is made from crysanthemums, avoid the evil synthetic version known a permethrin.