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- From: "nan and stewart" <stewart AT watervalley.net>
- To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: holistic approach to blister beetles?
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 10:46:29 -0000
Blister beetles have overrun my organic market
garden (northwest mississippi) just this month - i am not in depair as i know
the soil is still being brought into health (earthworms, microbes, etc.) but in
the meantime, what are these blister beetles symptomatic of, if anything
special?
i know i can apply various organic pesticides (but
i hate to use pyrethrin/rotenone unless absolutely necessary), but are there
natural enemies i can encourage to bring about a balance here....my rodale guide
says to grow under floating row covers, and I know that these guys also eat
grasshopper eggs (of which we have a gazillion here)....the advice is to knock
them off th plant with soapy water, but they come back pretty quickly and have
decimated the plants.
thanks for any thoughts!
nan
dancing goats farm
water valley, ms
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holistic approach to blister beetles?,
nan and stewart, 08/21/2000
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- RE: holistic approach to blister beetles?, Wiediger, Alison, 08/21/2000
- Re: holistic approach to blister beetles?, EvansKnob, 08/21/2000
- RE: holistic approach to blister beetles?, Wiediger, Alison, 08/22/2000
- Re: holistic approach to blister beetles?, EvansKnob, 08/22/2000
- RE: holistic approach to blister beetles?, Wiediger, Alison, 08/23/2000
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