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

clearviewfarm at bluefrog.com clearviewfarm at bluefrog.com
Fri May 9 08:14:33 EDT 2008


Bill,

I will check with my Cornell Cooperative Extension veg advisor, Robert Hadad, to see if he can tell us what beneficials helped out last year.  I also noticed a significant reduction in striped cuke beetles in my cucurbits last year.  Perhaps the buckwheat presence helped there, too.

Kurt Forman 
Clearview Farm 
Palmyra, NY 14522

--- wshoemak at inil.com wrote:

From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak at inil.com>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Sources for BT for potatoes and economicalNEEM	(?)
Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 13:22:24 -0500

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. 

_______________________________________________
Market-farming mailing list
Market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/market-farming





More information about the Market-farming mailing list