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Re: [Market-farming] Organic Remedies for Pest Control
- From: "Robin Follette" <list AT seasonseatingsfarm.com>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Organic Remedies for Pest Control
- Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 06:40:30 -0400
>>>Spraying is okay, but unless
you rotate the agents you use, you will quickly see CO potato beetle resistance
(so I am told). If you were to back up the calendar, you could plant hairy
vetch early the fall before and plow down all of it, as a nitrogen providing
cover crop, except for a border around your crop, that should deter the beetle
from moving into the spuds.
If I were to be able to stop the snow a
month earlier, thaw the ground and control spring rain I could probably also
back up the calendar.
>>>Unless you grow alot of
taters, you can pick them off and pinch them dead or put them in a can of
kerosene or Diesel fuel or maybe gasoline.
We grow more than can be managed by hand
picking.
>>>Also, rotating your crop to a
distant location the next year will help.
I always rotate. They're here this
year, a half mile away next year.
>>> Lastly, work with my
Cornell veg specialist has indicated that planting buckwheat next to the spuds
attracts beneficial predators of the beetle. I much prefer mechanical
and\or cultural controls to pesticides that result in resistance, which CO spud
bug seems to have a knack for.
There isn't any extra place to plant
buckwheat. Think Eliot Coleman's farm and layout - that's what I do.
To control CPB I have to either not grow potatoes and eggplant or use pesticides
responsibly. When there are more larva than the chickens and ducks can
control I lock the birds up and use an organic pesticide.
Robin
Seasons Eatings Farm Talmadge, Maine "Without power over our food, any notion
of democracy is empty." - Frances Moore Lappe
Kurt Forman Clearview Farm Palmyra, NY 14522 --- list AT seasonseatingsfarm.com wrote: From: "Robin Follette" <list AT seasonseatingsfarm.com> To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org> Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Organic Remedies for Pest Control Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:30:43 -0400 Spinosad. There's info here: http://www.planetnatural.com/site/monterey-garden-insect.html Robin, in rainy Maine where temps are below average this year. Robin Follette Seasons Eatings Farm Talmadge, Maine "Without power over our food, any notion of democracy is empty." - Frances Moore Lappe ----- Original Message ----- From: michelle rome To: Market Farming Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 6:20 AM Subject: [Market-farming] Organic Remedies for Pest Control Still have potatoes growing in SC middle of June. The beetles have finally made it to my potatoes. I am looking for organic remedies. I have gone more to compost fertilizing my limited crops this year. (The corn I have put some nitrogen to it). So I am organic like. I am looking for cheap & simple pest remedies. Michelle Hromyak Romy Farms E&W SC _______________________________________________ Market-farming mailing list Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/market-farming _______________________________________________ Market-farming mailing list Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/market-farming Robin Seasons Eatings Farm Talmadge, Maine "Without power over our food, any notion of democracy is empty." - Frances Moore Lappe |
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[Market-farming] Organic Remedies for Pest Control,
michelle rome, 06/12/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Organic Remedies for Pest Control, Robin Follette, 06/12/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Organic Remedies for Pest Control,
clearviewfarm, 06/12/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Organic Remedies for Pest Control, Robin Follette, 06/13/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Organic Remedies for Pest Control,
clearviewfarm, 06/13/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Organic Remedies for Pest Control, Robin Follette, 06/13/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Organic Remedies for Pest Control, clearviewfarm, 06/13/2009
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