Bugs won't touch raspberries: a clever way to protect plants from the berry shield bug
You can protect raspberries from bedbugs not only with the help of special preparations.
Raspberry bugs greatly impair the taste of berries, so every gardener tries to prevent these pests from appearing on the plot.
Some people use insecticides, while others resort to a more sophisticated method.
Thus, some gardeners plant black cohosh next to raspberries – a plant that is popularly called “bed bug”. In Germany, it is called “silver candles”.
There is no harm to people or pets. But the smell of black cohosh is unpleasant for bedbugs.
Therefore, the raspberry bush will be protected by "bugbane", which, as a bonus, can function as an ornamental plant. Some of its varieties are used in landscape design.
Cimicifuga is planted either along a raspberry patch or between bushes. However, it is important to remember that this representative of the buttercup family, like many of its relatives, is poisonous.
