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- From: "Wiediger, Alison" <awiediger AT HART.k12.ky.us>
- To: 'Market Farming' <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: RE: flea beetles
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 07:40:39 -0500
At a session at SSAWG this year, Dr. Richard McDonald talked about using
beneficial nematodes - especially for salad greens (mesclun, etc) that
cannot be grown otherwise. He specified the Hb strain, which are "cruisers"
(go looking for prey) as opposed to "ambushers"(which lie in wait). I
believe they applied them using the irrigation system. Here's his website:
http://www.drmcbug.com/ From what he said, they have decreased in price
enough to be a very economical way to control flea beetles.
Alison Wiediger, Au Naturel Farm
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> From: Jennie Lee[SMTP:tulipcreek AT dixie-net.com]
> Hi all -
> I need some advice about flea beetles. I lost a lot of beautiful
> greens last year to these guys so I've been really diligent this year
> about keeping row covers on all my brassicas and arugula - I put them on
> right after seeding and they've been on ever since.
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flea beetles,
Jennie Lee, 04/16/2002
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: flea beetles, Chris Sawyer, 04/16/2002
- RE: flea beetles, Wiediger, Alison, 04/16/2002
- Re: flea beetles, Lucy Goodman, 04/16/2002
- RE: flea beetles, Michaele Blakely, 04/16/2002
- Re: flea beetles, Jennie Lee, 04/18/2002
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