Use row covers starting early in the growing season to keep grasshoppers off your plants. A lightweight bug netting is the best to use. Just remember to suspend it over your plants using hoops. This will keep insects from chewing or laying eggs through the cloth.

Diatomaceous earth is another way to control grasshoppers that works well. Sprinkle food-grade DE over your plants and around the base to keep pests away. It will dry out and kill many insects but often they will avoid plants that it’s on as it feels abrasive to them.

Neem oil helps to repel grasshoppers when you spray it on your plant leaves. Grasshoppers and other insects dislike the taste of this natural oil. It also interferes with their reproduction helping to deter them from laying eggs.

Keeping a small flock of guinea fowl can really help to lower your pest problem. Unlike chickens, guinea hens don’t scratch up your garden soil.

Encourage natural predators in your garden. Grasshoppers have many natural predators such as chickens, ground beetles, spiders, wasps, toads, and snakes.

Another way to lower grasshopper problems is to simply plant your garden earlier than normal. This can help your plants be more mature when the grasshoppers arrive and gives them a better chance of surviving the damage.