[Market-farming] Leaf miners

Pat Meadows pat at meadows.pair.com
Sun Jun 7 08:52:13 EDT 2009


On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 17:30:18 -0600, you wrote:

>Nicole:  I had them take to my chard last year and I kept tearing out the infected leaves and eventually that took care of them.  Didn't catch them fast enough in my spinach this year and the spinach is bolting and am having to trash a lot of leaves.
>

I have not succeeded just with tearing off the infected leaves (chard).  I
wind up tossing most of the chard.  Ditto with beet greens.  It got worse
from year to year.  

There's a lot of (wild) lambsquarters around here, so even refraining from
growing chard, spinach or beets for a while wouldn't help.

This year, my chard is under row cover at present.  My husband is (at this
very moment!) building me some wooden cages covered with window screening.
The  cages will set over the Self-Watering Containers with chard and beets.
I will be able to water through them, and will just pick them up to weed or
harvest, etc.   

Pat
-- North-Central Pennsylvania, USA
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