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  • From: "Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>
  • To: <go-nofa AT yahoogroups.com>, "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] gnats in hoophouse
  • Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:51:48 -0500

I have grown lettuce and greens over winter in the hoophouse for the first time. I have now LOTS of gnats in there. I picked leaves for salad mix today and had to wash almost each leaf individually to get the gnats off. My concern/question is that I just seeded new salad mix in there (borrowed a pinpoint seeder – loved it!). The old lettuce is transplants, but the new is close seeding, which I assume I will pick smaller, and it will be harder to clean.

 

Does anyone know whether I should just turn the chickens in to eat the gnats and not do organic greens in the hoophouse since they will have manured while they eat, or will the problem go away when I roll the sidewalls up more? I expect to turn on the heat and put my seedlings for this summer out there in a week or so (beginning to overflow the growlights in the house) and am also concerned about the seedlings (coles, early tomatoes, head lettuces, herbs).

 

Never had this problem, but then I’ve only had the hoophouse a couple years and never grew things over the winter. The gnats really love it under the row covers in there.

 

Thank you.

Beth Spaugh
Rehoboth Homestead
Peru NY
http://rhomestead.com






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