Over run with these striped little suckers. Will ducks or chickens eat them? At least they’re just attacking the radish and comfrey right now. Looking for a permaculture solution.
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looks like a cucumber beetle. I've used teaspoon of cayenne powder in a liter of warm water to deter them. spray every other day to get rid & them occasionally to keep off.
Here is a video on an interesting concept called the plant health pyramid:
Instead of driving the beetles away, you end up making your plants healthy such that the beetles can't digest the types of sugars / fats contained in the plants.
If I were you I'd start with a soil soak/ foliar feed of EM to get your sugars in the leaves digesting faster and kickstart your soil food web a bit.
You can check it out on Amazon or Terraganix website. You'd get EM-1 and molasses, mix it up, let it ferment for a day or so and water it in and be sure to get it on the leaves.
https://www.teraganix.com/products/em-1-microbial-inoculant-soil-amendment
It looks like a small bottle, but you activate it by feeding it molasses to multiply the microbes.
https://www.teraganix.com/blogs/teraganix/activated-em-1-recipe-page
If you have access to kelp meal I'd also ferment that with the EM-1.
Can you tell me a little more about this garden you have? Did you just start it this year? Apply any compost? How prolific are the weeds and can you identify them?
Are your plants otherwise stressed from drought? How often are you watering?
Also note: make sure there is no chlorine in your water you activate the EM-1 with... the chlorine will kill all the critters in the EM-1.
If you are on city water let it sit out for a bit in a bucket to let the chlorine dissipate. I've also heard bubbling air through will help clear the chlorine out. (I'm on a well so don't need to do this)
I was thinking about trying some compost tea. I have some good compost that we made. These are brand new beds and we planted them heavy with the dikon radish as a cover crop. The beetles are really working it over and leaving the other plants alone for now.
