This post is meant to warn you…BEWARE of the AeroGarden devil! So to give you all a little background, I’ve got several AeroGardens in my home, and needless to say my wife does not allow me to keep all of them in the kitchen (I can’t blame her ) It would be a little much to have 5 AeroGardens crowding our little kitchen. So where do all of my AeroGardens reside? In the garage, where else?

Little did I know that my beautiful AeroGardens were slowly being destroyed by the a tiny little devil. I first noticed that something was wrong when I discovered a few tiny little black “beads” on the surface of a couple of AeroGardens. I didn’t think much about it, until I started noticing more and more of them each time I went out there. Check out this picture.

What were the little black beads? Little POOP from little baby caterpillars (the little Devils)! How did they get there? Was the damage already done?!?

Here’s a little factoid about Caterpillars. They are moth larva. I frequently leave my garage door open when I’m out there, and I think the lights from the AeroGarden attracked the moths. From there, they laid their little nasty larva in the AeroGarden, and little while later they hatched…with the sole mission of destroying my plants! I tried to pick off all of them, but they were very tiny, and even though I thought I got them all, they seemed to keep reappearing everytime I checked. Then out of the blue, I was pulling huge monsters off my plants…and by then it was too late. The damage had been done. Check out this picture of the culprit!

So here’s the moral of this sad tale…don’t ever open your garage door! Just kidding. If you see little black “beads” on the surface of your AeroGarden, beware…you may have these little devils in your garden! I’m not quite sure what to do once you’ve found them…as I couldn’t seem to get rid of mine. So and ounce of prevention (keeping your AeroGarden away from the great outdoors) can prevent a whole heck-of-a-lot of pain in your AeroGarden.

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