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  • From: "maury sheets" <maurysheets AT verizon.net>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] grasshoppers
  • Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:01:42 -0400

My Guineas only eat my peas (probably because I only had peas in the garden when there were no  bugs and nothing else green).  I fenced them out with three foot netting while the plants were small).  Now they have free range and pretty much only get the bugs, except for a few  pea leaves and a few nibbles on  garlic tops.  The only bug I have found so far this year is a couple of cabbage  worms (small at that) on the Russian Red Kale.  I will always have the Guineas because of the tick problem here.  I love them.

 

Maury Sheets

Woodland Produce

Southern jersey

 

From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of mongotrout AT mchsi.com
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 11:51 AM
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] grasshoppers

 

The only thing that the Guineas ever have bothered at my place is green beans.  They have a love for the leaves on green bean plants.  I fence them out of the bean patch with 20" chicken wire.  They have never flown over the fence to get to the beans, not yet anyway.....  We have a bad Japanese beetle problem almost every year, and the Guineas keep those in check also.

 

Chuck

SW Missouri

 

 

-------------- Original message from "Kate Halstead" <rockyprairie AT earthlink.net>: --------------

How do you deal with crops & the fowl? I gave up on chickens as pest control, except as an end-of-season 'run through and destroy' method. Our ducks (muscovies for slug control) don't seem to like much in the way of vegetables. Much to my surprise, as long as I put reemay over the lettuce, they leave most everything else alone, even the spinach. Are guinea fowl as discriminating?

 

Kate

Pacific NW




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