Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Terry Wereb" <frostedacres@gmail.com>]

At a field walk last night, it was suggested that BASIL is a great 'trap crop' for flea beatles.

 

 of course, if one is tryiing to grow basil for production puposes, one needs to mix in repellants, like geraniums and garlic to keep the darn beetles off of the basil--

 

Terry W

 

On 5/28/08, Nigel Kirby <naturespirit@clearwire.net> wrote:

Thank you for your suggestions Dan. I just read in Four Season Harvest that
they can also be vacuumed up. Sounds like a piece of work to me but I'm
going to keep experimenting. So far, the patch of arugula in my north garden
(perhaps about 200 ft away) is doing o.k. so may be I need to just plant far
enough away for now and continue to experiment with controlling the damage.

Nige

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