[Market-farming] Sources for BT for potatoes and economicalNEEM(?)

breck bcarden at breckinridgegroup.com
Thu May 8 23:45:17 EDT 2008


Bill, check out this site on buckwheat.
http://www.sarep.ucdavis.edu/cgi-bin/ccrop.EXE/show_crop_9


Breck Carden


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[mailto:market-farming-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Bill
Shoemaker
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 2:22 PM
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Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Sources for BT for potatoes and
economicalNEEM(?)

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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