How do you get rid of grasshoppers in your garden?
Question:they are feeding on my pepper plants.
Answers:
Watering. Grasshoppers do not like water.
Honestly and I'm not kidding, I simply hold one and tell it to go elsewhere, and it does. It sounds like I'm kidding, but I have an affinity with insects.
Ohhh, the poor guys are hungry! Plant 200 more plants so there will be enough for everyone.
Grasshopper Fritters
from 'Ronald Taylor's "Butterflies in My Stomach"
3/4 cup sifted flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
3/4 c milk
1 egg, slightly beaten
1 c grasshoppers
1 pt. heavy cream beaten stiff
Sift flour, baking powder and salt together into a bowl. Slowly add milk and beat until smooth. Add egg and beat well.
Pluck off grasshopper wings and legs, heads optional. Dip insects in egg batter and deep fry. Salt and serve.
from Amazing Grasshopper Recipes.
Or, if your garden is really infested...
Oaxaca Enchiladas
About 1000 grasshoppers (the younger the better)
1/2 cup chili sauce
pinch of salt
garlic
onion
1 lemon
1 cup guacamole
6 tortillas
Directions: Soak the grasshoppers in clean water for 24 hours. Boil them, then let dry. Fry in a pan with garlic, onion, salt
and lemon. Roll up in tortillas with chili sauce and guacamole. According to the author, "Serves six if you can fund six."
from American Way American Airlines Magazine
I'm sure your peppers would go well with that one. Enjoy :P~~
If you live in the country and your area allows it, get some chickens. They'll eat any bug that moves, and eat weeds as well. There are cages called chicken "tractors" that allow you to move the chickens around your garden without any great effort.
You can use a product called Sevin that comes in a powder form. The manfuacturers of Sevin were the first company to produce a product that can be used on edibles.
Good luck!
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