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 Question: All my vegetables I planted
are coming along fine except my green peppers I have tried everything to
save them , but all the leaves seem to have been eaten (holes in them) I
sprayed some Bon neem and it worked for everything except them.Answer: Kudos to you for using an earth-friendly product! Bon-Neem is a good product for a lot of garden pests that is safe for food crops, and as such was an excellent choice for pest control in your garden. It works on a wide variety of pepper pests, but in going through the list on the label, I noticed that they don't make such a big deal about snails and slugs - at least not in the large print. My first instinct when I read your question was slugs, and that would be my top guess as to what is going on with your pepper plants. Slugs can do a lot of damage in just a little time, and they do it at night when you are not looking, so you get up the next morning and find all these raggedy plants and wonder what the heck happened. Depending on where the pepper plants are and what they are planted in, if you look closely, you might be able to see slime trails on and around the pepper plants, but these are not always readily apparent. What you need to do at this point is go out after dark with a flashlight and see if you can find a slug in action to confirm. If you do see them in action, you can keep them away from the plants by simply putting something rough down at the plant bases that they will not want to cross. A few suggestions are crushed eggshells, gravel chips, nut shells, or even roofing shingles or sandpaper. Anything with a rough surface will do. If you don't see any slugs, which would surprise me, try another application of Bon-Neem. I have heard that it often takes two treatments for optimal effect, but watch out, because Pepper plants may become sensitive if you use too much too quickly. Good luck!
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