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  • From: "Rob Wallbridge" <rob AT songberry.ca>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Zucchini problem
  • Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 09:07:33 -0400

Hi Jay,

 

Check this out for insect netting:

http://www.duboisag.com/catalog.php?lang=en&product_id=523

If it’s what you want, googling the brand name may bring you a closer source.

 

Cheers,

Rob

 

Rob Wallbridge

Songberry Organic Farm

24 Sixth Line, Bristol, QC J0X 1G0

email: rob AT songberry.ca

web: www.songberry.ca

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From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Jay Sleichter
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 9:46 AM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Zucchini problem

 

I had/having the same problems with Zucchini and pickling cucumbers.  My early Zucchini, planted in one of my  movable high tunnels, started off great then the cucumber beetles moved in.  They were parthenocopic varieties ( Sultan, Perfect Pick and Cavali).  I would get few pointed fruits but most were ok. They barely lasted a month before they were gone and ripped out. My outside zucchini, was also a bust.  I am use to picking 45-50 pounds a day.  This year, I was picking 4-5 zucchini.  I am not as large as most of you, but when you have to trade tomatoes for zucchini, with your neighbor, you know it is bad!

My pickling cucumbers were even worse. I picked them for 2 weeks before the cucumber beetles destroyed them.  I tried everything, spray, lures, sticky traps.  It just seemed that I would kill 1 and 2 would replace them.  When you walked in the tunnel, it was like flys in a hog barn.  The sky was almost "moving".

Does anyone know of a source for some sort of insect netting?  I am thinking about using a net on the sides and endwall openings of my moveable tunnels to help exclude the beetles next year.  Something that the wind can pass through, so row cover won't work.  I was wanting to use it on the sides and make one big row cover, instead of using 5 rows of row cover.  I have seen something on "caterpillar tunnels" I saw at a program but they didn't list a source and I wasn't in the market for it.

Thanks,

Jay

Jay's Jellies, Produce and More
Clay Center, Kansas
www.jaysjellies.com
http://highfarming.blogspot.com/

--- On Fri, 7/30/10, cjmaness AT juno.com <cjmaness AT juno.com> wrote:


From: cjmaness AT juno.com <cjmaness AT juno.com>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Zucchini problem
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Friday, July 30, 2010, 8:08 AM

Allan,
We are having the same trouble with squash. We haven't harvested enough to bother with all summer. I've tried transplanting, and direct seeding with no luck at all. Our cucumbers are fine, as well as the pumpkins and winter squash. It is just the summer squash. The plants are small, the leaves turn yellow and it dies.  I grow a lot of different varieties of squash and all of them are doing this. I've tried different locations, different fields and the results are the same.
We've never had this problem before, and it is really hurting us at market.
Carla
Perkins, OK 

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