I guess I should know better. My parents taught me not to brag.
I took a stroll out to my corner flower garden yesterday afternoon and found a heartbreaking sight -
Japanese beetles decimating my zebra mallow and my knock-out-rose bush.
The damage was severe by the time I found them, and I have spent the last two days researching them and plucking these evil beasts off and drowning them in soapy water. I have heard an old-timers way of getting rid of them is to blend some of the dead ones up and spray the "juice" on your plants. I am very tempted to try it.
