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Old December 14, 2018   #20
teyger
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Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Lake Charles, Louisiana
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My tomato crop was completely devastated by stinkbugs this past season! I try to stay organic in my garden and there was no way I could keep up with the stinkers. It was really depressing. My tomatoes were looking SO FRICKING AWSEOME!!! The best they had ever looked... before the stinkbugs got out of control. I got very little harvest. It's maddening.

The stinkbug damage went FAR beyond just cosmetic damage. The tomatoes variety was unrecognizable from being so discolored from the damage.

I am thinking of taking drastic measures next season. Since I live in South Louisiana with the hot and humid climate, I might build rain shelters (to help fight disease and fruit splitting) and enclose the sides with bug netting. I had put up a rain shelter over 1 bed this past season but early on it was destroyed by a tornado and I didn't bother rebuilding it.

Stinkbugs are by far my main nemesis every year and this past year was the worst.
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