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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming]was organic flowers- Eggplant
  • Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 10:44:47 -0400

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 08:00:01 -0500, you wrote:

>Ah yes, well, we have flea beetles, and thought they LIKE all nightshades,
>they will take eggplant to the bare stems. I've tried all the soft stuff,
>and have been told that beneficial nematodes introduced through the
>irrigation will work, but eggplant just isn't a popular enough (profitable
>enough) vegetable here in southern Kentucky to go to the trouble. Too many
>more profitable things (like flowers) to grow on our very limited acreage.
>

What's worked for me is putting rotenone dust around the
plants when I transplant them out to the garden, then
covering them with floating row cover. It's a nuisance, to
say the least.

Either that or growing eggplants in containers on the deck:
otherwise, the flea beatles have just devastated them.

Pat
--
"Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of
supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to
live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry




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