What I mean is, do you get better crop yield in one year and a year later you don’t get much depending on how bad or good the season was?

I’m at zone 7 UK if that helps. We’ve just started to try gardening this year and the summer season has been scorching most of the time and with autumn rolling in it’s still fairly warm but not sunny.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    If you only have moth problems, a soap-based spray will help on fruiting plants. They’ll stay away unless it’s some fruit.

    Distraction plants are great. If you find an imbalance, go to a local nursery and get whatever bugs they recommend: ladybugs, Mantids, Nematode spray…etc.

    Regardless of those things, just be super consistent with the watering and fertilizer. Get compost tea locally if it’s free or cheap, and you’ll be in fantastic shape.

    • Dis32@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      How often and during what time of day would you used the soap based spray? I usually use it sometime before the sunsets. Yeah we grew some Nasturtiums to attract aphids away from the actually crops, seems to do the job, plus any ladybirds we find in our garden I usually pick them up and put them where the aphids are and watch them go wild lol.

      We have some coffee grounds saved up since my sister works at a coffee shop and she takes them home, do they work? Apparently they do, but not as effectively from what I’ve read, maybe I need to do more research on that part. Other than that yeah, usually check the soil if it’s dry and needs watering and do the regular feeding.

      • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        3 days ago

        I would usually recommend using it after sundown. Moths are nocturnal.

        Don’t use it during the morning or daytime because you run the risk of it still being liquid and creating a lensing effect when the sun gets hot and burn the fruit. Same reason you shouldn’t water any plants during full sun.

        • Dis32@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          Yeah that makes the most sense tbh, but what I’ve read and what I’ve experienced it doesn’t seem to work with the soap spray? They just keep coming back, the eggs I mean, or do I just keep doing it everyday? From what I see the moths don’t come out everyday just probably in good sunny weather if that makes sense.

          …I don’t know why you got downvoted 😬