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  • From: "Wiediger, Alison" <alison.wiediger AT hart.kyschools.us>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Cucumber Beetles
  • Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:06:16 -0600

Last year, for the first time, we used yellow sticky traps and cucumber beetle lures (bought ours from Johnny's).  They were amazingly effective!  Our cucumbers in the high tunnel went from being significantly damaged to undamaged in just a few days.  Then we moved them to our outdoor production and they were effective there also. I think they are worth a try for anyone having trouble with cucumber beetles.
 
On using Surround, we have tried it for squash beetles and found it marginally effective, but found the clay hard to wash off the fruit, and whitish clay on zucchini is very unattractive, and looks to the customer like any other "chemical" spray.  Not a incentive to buy it!
 
Alison Wiediger, Au Naturel Farm


From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Shawnee Flowerfarmer
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 4:00 PM
To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
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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