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[Rebecca in the Great Northwest <rebas_own AT hotmail.com>]

anybody here got a good method for dealing with asparagus beetles?  

Our first cutting is usually bug-free, but later cuttings are rife with 
beetles.  The bugs hide in the tips and under the scales, so a good soak in 
salt water doesn't always flush them out--and I can tell you from experience 
the beetles don't taste all that nice.  We gave up on asparagus a few years 
ago, but the spouse is making a new bed this year with the surviving plants 
plus new stock.

A family member suggested making a nicotine tea out of scavenged cigarette 
butts and spraying the plants and soil with that, something we may try on 
this new bed.  I would love to know about other methods for control...

back to my seed catalogs!

-Rebecca in western Washington state

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