So, I woke up this morning, and found my BEAUTIFUL daikon covered in pillbug babies and eggs. Literally, and totally covered. It was super gross and very, very, very sad.
I sprayed the entire crop, and surrounding plants with Neem oil, and liberally applied slug bait around the entire patch. It was a pillbug genocide today at the Ping household. I probably should have been more diligent about the slug bait, especially since I already identified pillbugs as a problem child in my garden. In any case, hindsight is twenty-twenty, and after realizing the ALL of my daikon were infested, and not wanting to spread the problem to my other plants, I decided to do an early harvest and to pull out the daikon a couple of weeks early. Thankfully, the buggies didn’t infest the root itself, and after a good wash and scrub, they still look delicious. Small, but enough for a homegrown tasty dinner– Jonathan’s making daikon soup tomorrow!
