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  • From: <clearviewfarm AT bluefrog.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Sources for BT for potatoes and economicalNEEM (?)
  • Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 05:14:33 -0700

Bill,

I will check with my Cornell Cooperative Extension veg advisor, Robert Hadad,
to see if he can tell us what beneficials helped out last year. I also
noticed a significant reduction in striped cuke beetles in my cucurbits last
year. Perhaps the buckwheat presence helped there, too.

Kurt Forman
Clearview Farm
Palmyra, NY 14522

--- wshoemak AT inil.com wrote:

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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