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  • From: Allan Balliett <aballiett AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Safer Insecticidal Soap vs Harlequin Bugs
  • Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:33:31 -0400

There's good information on using intercropping for pest control in general
at
http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/PDF/intercrop.pdf
Certain practices are more practical than worrying about every specific
pest.

Paul - Have you ever had any experience with Harlequins. Let me tell you this: top university recommended trap crop is MUSTARD. Guess where I've got harlequins this year? Well, if you guessed cabbage, broccoli, beets and rhubarb, you're correct. If you included MUSTARD, you're wrong, because there just aren't any harlequins in the mustard (but they are in the tatsoi in the next bed). My point is: these guys prefer brassicas, but they will eat (and kill) most anything. I did notice during this evening's squishing, though, that the bugs on the beets are not nearly as FAT as the bugs in the turnip tops.

Having had just about everything destroyed, I'm more than happy to listen to your experience.

Thanks

Allan




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