Disclaimer: This post was originally posted by Full Member, sphil. This user is located in Texas, Zone 8b. This was originally posted on June 11, 2013.
I have been having trouble with something eating parts of my cantaloupe leaves, and I finally decided it was grasshoppers. I looked for non-pesticide solutions, and found: 1) horehound, which has long been used as a grasshopper barrier. I couldn't find any, so I tried suggestion number 2) cilantro. Apparently grasshoppers hate cilantro. So I put cilantro pots around among the cantaloupe vines. This was several days ago, and I can see a significant improvement. If you have a grasshopper problem, and would prefer to keep them away rather than kill them, you might want to give cilantro a try!
Stephanie
