[Market-farming] Sources for BT for potatoes and economicalNEEM (?)
Bill Shoemaker
wshoemak at inil.com
Thu May 8 14:22:24 EDT 2008
I'm going to be working with buckwheat cover crops on cucumbers this year.
Do you know what beneficials were associated with the buckwheat that
provided control of CPB? I'll be planting cucumbers but I want to watch for
them. Perhaps they'll have an impact on cucumber beetle too.
Bill Shoemaker, Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
University of Illinois - St Charles Horticulture Research Center
www.nres.uiuc.edu/faculty/directory/shoemaker_wh.html
>Entrust will control CO potato beetle. One >treatment of Entrust, followed
>with a buckwheat >companion that attracted beneficial predators, kept >the
>CPB under control in my eggplant last year.
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