Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Art Corbit" <art_c@cox.net>]

You can buy Lady Bugs and turn them loose in your garden and they will
control the Aphids. Just a few Lady Bugs can eat a lot of Aphids.

Art


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From: <miranda@tagoresmith.com>
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing"
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Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Soil Building


> An aphid infestation is always a marker that your levels of available N
> are too high. Aphids are better than a soil test at detecting this
> problem.
>
> Also, in the 1970s or very early 1980s, researchers in Germany did trials
> that established the difference in pest incidence between plants
> fertilized with immediately available nutrients and those that had to be
> broken down and made available by soil processes over the season. IFOAM
> published this work, so I imagine you can find it somewhere on line. It's
> no different from what you already know and understand, but you might like
> to look at the study.
>
> Miranda Smith
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