Market Farming

["David Tannen" <david AT centerville.net>]

Meant to say I am located in middle Tennessee; about sixty miles south of 
Nashville.

David
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Bezilla" <kenbez AT hotmail.com>
To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 8:18 PM
Subject: [Market-farming] Okra and Japanese beetles


> It's my first year growing veggies here in Virginia, and my first time for
> dealing with Japanese beetles.  They're munching some on our okra -- some
> light damage to the leaves, but also a bit of munching on some of the 
> older
> pods (annoying, since we're growing the okra as a seed crop).
>
> Should we worry about the Japanese beetles?  Are we breeding an 
> okra-loving
> strain of beetles, and should we destroy them before they destroy all okra
> as we know it?
>
> (Interestingly, the beetles are also doing some light munching on our 
> sweet
> potato leaves...)
>
> Ken Bezilla
> Acorn Community Farm
> central Virginia
>
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