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- From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Pesticide resistance
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:14:23 -0400
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:52:39 -0400, you wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:44:19 -0500, Shawnee Flowerfarmer wrote:
>>> That said, I discovered this morning that my rutabagas are history...
>>>
>>> --So....what happened to the rutabagas? Come on...what's the rest of the
>>> story?
>
>Having had terrible problems with a striped cabbage caterpillar destroying
>my big fat rutabagas last year, this year I kept them under row cover from
>birth, and checked on them periodically until they were 6 inches tall or so,
>then ignored them until yesterday. They are infested with aphids, which have
>killed most of them and crippled the rest. I expect I excluded aphid
>predators...so much for the complex ecosystem! No great loss, since these
>are only in the kitchen garden, and I am not a huge rutabaga fan, but it
>does seem terribly unfair nonetheless.
>
It does seem unfair!
I wonder if sprinkling rotenone dust or diatomaceous earth around the
plants before covering them with the row cover would prevent this from
happening in the future? I think it probably would.
Pat
-- northern Pennsylvania
Website: www.meadows.pair.com/articleindex.html
"Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of
supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to
live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry
-
[Market-farming] Pesticide resistance,
Andrea, 08/16/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Pesticide resistance, breck, 08/25/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Pesticide resistance,
Richard Robinson, 08/25/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Pesticide resistance,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 08/26/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Pesticide resistance,
Richard Robinson, 08/27/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Pesticide resistance, Pat Meadows, 08/27/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Pesticide resistance,
Richard Robinson, 08/27/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Pesticide resistance,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 08/26/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Pesticide resistance,
Pat Meadows, 08/25/2008
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[Market-farming] (no subject),
Jason Jones, 08/25/2008
- [Market-farming] Chisel Plow, bcluton, 08/25/2008
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[Market-farming] (no subject),
Jason Jones, 08/25/2008
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [Market-farming] Pesticide resistance, clearviewfarm, 08/27/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Pesticide resistance, clearviewfarm, 08/27/2008
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