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- From: "courtney mcleod" <sunmoonriver AT windstream.net>
- To: "Market farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [Market-farming] asparagus beetles
- Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 09:29:02 -0400
Well, we have
our first crop of asparagus this year, have never grown it before and we are
thrilled to death to see it out there. I, by chance, walked by it
yesterday to take a look and talk sweet nothings to it and noticed some kind of
bug on it. Smart little suckers as they dance around your fingers as you
try to grab them. HATE THEM ALREADY! Then found these tiny, tiny,
tiny little black specks stuck to the ferns and the stalks. Low and
behold, I think it was what I was reading about only hours earlier. I
COULD JUST SCREAM!! Actually I did and I heard the horse’s next
door answer back! I just got the aphids some what under control, can not
grow any kind of vine plant thanks to all the friendly damn beetles that we
have & now this. Our first year with it and we have them
already! No one else around us grows any…where in the hell do they
just appear from????? How do they know it’s there if no one within
many miles grows any? Do they just fly around until they spot their goods
down on the ground and then dive in???? I just don’t get it.
I could see maybe after a couple of years growing it…but the first damn
year! I am so frustrated I could spit right now! I think I may have
even done that when I saw them. Any suggestions
besides what I read in the article? I don’t have any chickens and
don’t plan on having any until next year, and even at that, I am not
holding my breath. I am about to Google it but thought I would try here
also. What I did do
yesterday was pick every damn beetle that I could see of and squished until
guts were on my fingers and then with my finger nails, picked off every little
egg sac that I could see. Almost need a magnifying glass to see
them! I would so
appreciate help…I need some kind of organic gas cloud to hover over my fields
and just kill all that is out there that is bad. We can put people in
space but no one can come up with something like that???????? LOL! |
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[Market-farming] asparagus beetles,
courtney mcleod, 05/11/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] asparagus beetles, Wiediger, Alison, 05/11/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] asparagus beetles, Pat Meadows, 05/11/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] asparagus beetles, Willie McKemie, 05/11/2007
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
-
[Market-farming] asparagus beetles,
courtney mcleod, 05/11/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] asparagus beetles, Wiediger, Alison, 05/11/2007
-
[Market-farming] Asparagus Beetles,
pam, 05/13/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] Asparagus Beetles, Glen Eco Farm, 05/13/2007
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