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  • From: Richard Stewart <rstewart AT zoomtown.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Colorado potato beetle control - crop rotation/rotating potato plot
  • Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:48:28 -0400

Thanks John.  That is interesting about the trenching.  Do you have any idea what the width of the trench was?

I plan on rotating with cereal crops/small grains/black turtle beans/cover crops.

Other Nightshade family other than the wild stuff is being phased out.  Its easy for us to lose out on tomatoes, eggplant, and peppers when folks with an acre focus on these things.  Those are also separated form this ground by dense tree and honey suckle barriers...and anywhere from 1 mile in the case of this year's potato field to 1/10th of mile for next year's.

I have heard good things from Ohio State Extension about rotation and using legumes/grasses as follow on cash or cover crops in attempts to control the CPB with non-chemical means.

Richard Stewart
Carriage House Farm
North Bend, Ohio

An Ohio Century Farm Est. 1855

(513) 967-1106



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