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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Sources for BT for potatoes and economicalNEEM (?)
  • Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 13:22:24 -0500

I'm going to be working with buckwheat cover crops on cucumbers this year. Do you know what beneficials were associated with the buckwheat that provided control of CPB? I'll be planting cucumbers but I want to watch for them. Perhaps they'll have an impact on cucumber beetle too.

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

Entrust will control CO potato beetle. One >treatment of Entrust, followed with a buckwheat >companion that attracted beneficial predators, kept >the CPB under control in my eggplant last year.





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