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  • From: Alliums <garlicgrower AT earthlink.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Rotenone and flea beetles
  • Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 11:19:21 -0500

Ken wrote:


Our strategy for coping has usually been to plant out large (4.25" rootball) eggplant seedlings, dust them with rotenone, keep them under row cover until flowering, then remove the row cover, and as needed dust the eggplants one or two more times to keep down the flea beetle population.

We have terrible flea beetle problems here also. I've simply put the eggplant under row cover from transplant to flowering and have harvested eggplants just fine. The plants seem sturdy enough to fight off the infestations once they at flowering stage. I still get flea beetle drilling through the leaves, but my yields have not suffered (I mostly grow Asian eggplants, if that's a difference.)

Do you really need the rotenone if you're using the row cover? Maybe try just row cover with some and compare yields?

Hope this helps!


Dorene Pasekoff, Coordinator
St. John's United Church of Christ Organic Community Garden

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St. John's United Church of Christ, 315 Gay Street, Phoenixville, PA 19460





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