Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["John Smith" <mikakigr@gmail.com>]

Perhaps it is flea beetles that are chomping away. In my situation (Greece) it is their season at the moment. The snails and the flea beetles have wiped out a lot of my seedlings and certain plants are marginal - may or may not survive. When you talk about tomato plants what size are they? I've read that seedlings are at most risk and that once the plant gets bigger they are less of a risk. I have also heard that pill bugs eat greenery when need be but I have never seen it. Anyone with any hard first hand evidence? I've seen some ants strip green off plants next to their nest but I'm sure that it was lack of other food - or maybe they needed some vitamins. It is very limited damage, thank God.

 

John Smith, Greece

 

On 5/26/07, Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com> wrote:

Laurie,

 

I have never heard of pill bugs eating plants or seen them do that.  The last two days I have mulched my backyard with hay that has been piled  over a year and thousands of pill bugs in it.

 

New to me.  You must have a Genetically Modified pill bug!

 

Ken

---

Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today!

_______________________________________________
Livingontheland mailing list
Livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/livingontheland