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- From: John Hendrickson <jhendric AT wisc.edu>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] cucumbers
- Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 10:21:02 -0600
Cucumber beetles are a royal pain. One thing I have tried with partial success is to fill yellow plastic bowls or cups with a soap solution. I place these every few plants down the row. The beetles are attracted to yellow and assume the bowls/cups are flowers. This catches some but they proliferate so rapidly that it is not a complete solution. Row cover and successive plantings seems to me to be the best organic solution. Eliot Coleman's books claim that a well balanced soil will help fend off cucumber beetles. He advises using sheep manure and dried seaweed.
Has anyone on this list ever tried to create a temporary hoophouse (field tunnel) using row cover instead of plastic? I am envisioning a structure just tall enough to walk through and trellising the cucumbers.
-John
At 08:58 PM 11/18/2006 -0600, you wrote:
I would like to hear of any organic cucumber beetle control that other growers have tried. (I think that bats wouldn't help since they are nocturnal when the beetles aren't active) I know of people using the kaolin clay sprays-but those get expensive too.
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Re: [Market-farming] cucumbers
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Re: [Market-farming] cucumbers,
Joyce Paski, 11/16/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] cucumbers,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 11/16/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] cucumbers, Allan Balliett, 11/17/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] cucumbers,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 11/16/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] cucumbers,
cjmaness AT juno.com, 11/17/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] cucumbers, Wiediger, Alison, 11/17/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] cucumbers,
Christine & Marlin, 11/18/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] cucumbers,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 11/18/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] cucumbers,
Lucy Goodman, 11/19/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] cucumbers, Sue Wells, 11/19/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] cucumbers, Allan Balliett, 11/19/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] cucumbers,
John Hendrickson, 11/19/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] cucumbers,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 11/19/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] cucumbers, Home Grown Kansas!, 11/20/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] cucumbers,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 11/19/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] cucumbers, Christine & Marlin, 11/19/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] cucumbers,
Lucy Goodman, 11/19/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] cucumbers,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 11/18/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] cucumbers,
cjmaness AT juno.com, 11/19/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] cucumbers, Allan Balliett, 11/19/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] cucumbers, wildernessflowers, 11/20/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] cucumbers,
cjmaness AT juno.com, 11/28/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] cucumbers,
Home Grown Kansas!, 11/28/2006
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[Market-farming] Certified scales,
Sue Wells, 11/28/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Certified scales, Home Grown Kansas!, 11/28/2006
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[Market-farming] Certified scales,
Sue Wells, 11/28/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] cucumbers,
Home Grown Kansas!, 11/28/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] cucumbers,
Joyce Paski, 11/16/2006
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