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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] gnats in hoophouse
  • Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:10:48 -0500

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:50:32 -0700, you wrote:

>Last winter I had fungus gnats in my houseplants. I used the Gardens Alive
>product to drench the plants according to the directions. I had been growing
>a giant sequoia from seed that was then 5 years old and looked like a
>beautiful, yet miniature, tree. Within 3 weeks of the Knock-Out Gnats
>application the tree was dead. Coincidence, perhaps. But my best guess was
>that I probably killed the mycorrhizal fungi on the tree's roots. And the
>gnats reappeared in the other houseplants within a few weeks. This year, we
>just live with the gnats...
>
>Firefly Mountain Produce, zone 3/4, CO
>
Yellow sticky traps really do help. Enough of them would
probably do the job ... slowly, but do it.

Pat
-- northern Pennsylvania
"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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