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  • From: Shawnee Flowerfarmer <farmingflowers AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Wilt
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:02:59 -0600

Tom, I should have suggested checking the ATTRA website.....they've got wisdom about nearly everything
Shawnee, zone 5, still giggling about the guinea hens in the past


From: farmingflowers AT hotmail.com
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:59:55 -0600
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Guinea fowl in the Garden?

   Marie and the other kind souls who have shared their insight and experiences with guineas, Thank you very much.  It may come down to trading one problem (bugs) for another (guinea fowl).  Back to my original objective:  figure out some way to minimize the damage caused by cucumber, asparagus and squash beetles and harlequin bugs.  I also had the problem mentioned by one of the posters, and that is wilt as secondary damage from cucumber beetles.  What do farmers do who are organic or nearly so?  Tom

We ask everybody what they do, try everything and are still troubled by the cucurbit Bad Boys.  The Cornell agricultural website has a good study about using certain varieties as trap crops planted as a barrier and so on, but those insects remain a very difficult problem often requiring several different methods of control, vigilance and persistence.  Soon, you will have your own methods to suggest and we will be glad to hear them.  Of the wilt spread by their feeding, I haven't found anything that guarantees a crop.
Shawnee, zone 5


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