Grubs In Your Vegetable Garden

You surely will notice that you have a grub worm problem when the condition of your lawn or garden radically deteriorates.

Grubs in your vegetable garden.

These animals love to eat grubs and will come in droves for the easy snacks. Grubs feed on the roots of grass and are the larvae of japanese beetles june beetles european chafers or other beetles. Another tip off that you have a grub problem is the increased activity around your yard from raccoons skunks or birds. Grubs resemble a small white worm or caterpillar close to to 1 inches long.

Grubs are voracious root eating worms that turn into leaf eating adult beetles. Some are white but others have gray bodies. Many a home grower and farmer have dealt with the irritation of finding them among their plants and crops. One of the most common finds are grubs in vegetable garden beds.

One of the most common finds are grubs in vegetable garden bed. Grubs which are the larvae of several types of beetles feed on plant roots. So finding patches of sod all torn up and dug through can mean you have grubs even if they re not the ones who directly did the damage. How to kill grubs in a vegetable garden remove all lawn grass and grassy weeds from in and around your vegetable.

That said once they go through metamorphosis they very well may damage your plants. So when i loosen the soil in my veggie garden in the spring i leave the grubs on the surface for the birds to get. While they re common beneath lawns they may also wreak havoc on the roots of garden vegetables. Till the garden soil every spring and fall.

A grub is a general term referring to the larvae stage of various insect species. Adult female beetles lay their eggs in grass in mid to late summer and the larvae do the most damage in late summer to early fall. They are the little larva of different kinds of beetles. Grassy patches attract the adult beetles that lay the eggs which later turn into grubs.

However when there are more than 15 to 20 grub worms per square foot in your vegetable garden then that is a real problem. In my experience the grubs will not be a problem in the veggie garden. Grubs can range in size shape and color and cause varying degrees of damage to your garden vegetables.