Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Greece? I'd like to hear more about growing there. Are you sharing in the
drought of northern Italy?

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 5/26/2007 at 10:41 PM John Smith wrote:

>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
>