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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] squash virus
  • Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:45:28 -0500

Viruses are usually transmitted to plants by flying insects, most often aphids. Rotation will not help because they are not soil-borne. There is the possibility of seed-borne virus if you save seed or if the seedsmen isn't careful. Using spun-bonded row tunnels can exclude these insects until flowering time, when the tunnels should be removed to allow bees in for pollination. Making successive plantings using the tunnels can keep you in the squash harvest through the season. It's a lot of work but viruses are a difficult challenge.

Bill Shoemaker, Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
University of Illinois - St Charles Horticulture Research Center
www.nres.uiuc.edu/faculty/directory/shoemaker_wh.html



>I had that squash virus this year,
so I had to change next year's rotation around to get the squash as far as
possible from where it was planted this year (like the other side of the
farm!).





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