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  • From: Andy Fellenz <fellenz AT fltg.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] row covers and flea beetles and white-on-black mulch
  • Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 07:53:19 -0400

Put your row cover on immediately. I transplant out my rapini and if I wait even a day before putting on row cover I will have flea beetle damage.
Andy

Allan Balliett wrote:
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?




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