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[Market-farming] row covers and flea beetles and white-on-black mulch
- From: Allan Balliett <aballiett AT frontiernet.net>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [Market-farming] row covers and flea beetles and white-on-black mulch
- Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 07:00:42 -0400
I'd like to grow a decent crop of rapini for the CSA this early summer.
Flea beetles are a big problem for us.
My early experiments with row cover and flea beetles gave me crops that were devoured by flea beetles when I finally lifted the row cover. For this reason, I've remained dubious.
But I hear so many proclaim the benefits of row cover that I'm ready to try again.
One error I apparently made was that I didn't put the row covers on on the day of seeding. Is this a necessity? In an area of the garden known to have flea beetles is bare soil/worked soil enough to repel them for a while or do you spray a repellant or insecticide on the bare soil before putting on the row cover?
I have a roll of the white-on-black plastic mulch that I've never used. I'm wondering if those of you who use it think it w.b. a good plastic to use with a row covered raab/rapini planting. (I'm concerned about leaving the row cover on until harvest, so I don't want to have to worry about weeds.
And, do I have it straight on this white-on-black plastic mulch? It really will COOL the soil rather than heat it, thereby prolonging the non-bolting life of brassicas grown on it?
Thanks for listening.
-Allan in WV
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[Market-farming] row covers and flea beetles and white-on-black mulch,
Allan Balliett, 05/15/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] row covers and flea beetles and white-on-black mulch, Andy Fellenz, 05/15/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] row covers and flea beetles and white-on-black mulch,
Owsley lucy, 05/15/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] row covers and flea beetles and white-on-black mulch, Bill Shoemaker, 05/15/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] row covers and flea beetles and white-on-black mulch, John Hendrickson, 05/15/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] row covers and flea beetles and white-on-black mulch, Owsley lucy, 05/15/2009
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- Re: [Market-farming] row covers and flea beetles, Allan Balliett, 05/18/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] row covers and flea beetles, Owsley lucy, 05/18/2009
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[Market-farming] row covers and flea beetles and white-on-black mulch,
Allan Balliett, 05/15/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Harlequin Bug Control?,
Allan Balliett, 05/15/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] row covers and flea beetles and white-on-blackmulch, Beth Spaugh, 05/15/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] row covers and flea beetles and white-on-blackmulch, courtney mcleod, 05/15/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Harlequin Bug Control?,
Road's End Farm, 05/12/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Harlequin Bug Control?,
Marcy, 05/11/2009
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