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- From: Jay Sleichter <jaysleichter AT yahoo.com>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Zucchini problem
- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:46:29 -0700 (PDT)
I had/having the same problems with Zucchini and pickling cucumbers. My early Zucchini, planted in one of my movable high tunnels, started off great then the cucumber beetles moved in. They were parthenocopic varieties ( Sultan, Perfect Pick and Cavali). I would get few pointed fruits but most were ok. They barely lasted a month before they were gone and ripped out. My outside zucchini, was also a bust. I am use to picking 45-50 pounds a day. This year, I was picking 4-5 zucchini. I am not as large as most of you, but when you have to trade tomatoes for zucchini, with your neighbor, you know it is bad! My pickling cucumbers were even worse. I picked them for 2 weeks before the cucumber beetles destroyed them. I tried everything, spray, lures, sticky traps. It just seemed that I would kill 1 and 2 would replace them. When you walked in the tunnel, it was like flys in a hog barn. The sky was almost "moving". Does anyone know of a source for some sort of insect netting? I am thinking about using a net on the sides and endwall openings of my moveable tunnels to help exclude the beetles next year. Something that the wind can pass through, so row cover won't work. I was wanting to use it on the sides and make one big row cover, instead of using 5 rows of row cover. I have seen something on "caterpillar tunnels" I saw at a program but they didn't list a source and I wasn't in the market for it. Thanks, Jay Jay's Jellies, Produce and More Clay Center, Kansas www.jaysjellies.com http://highfarming.blogspot.com/ --- On Fri, 7/30/10, cjmaness AT juno.com <cjmaness AT juno.com> wrote:
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Re: [Market-farming] Zucchini problem,
cjmaness AT juno.com, 07/30/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Zucchini problem, waldenfarm, 07/30/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Zucchini problem, Jay Sleichter, 07/30/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Zucchini problem, William H Shoemaker, 07/30/2010
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- Re: [Market-farming] Zucchini problem, cjmaness AT juno.com, 07/30/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Zucchini problem,
sunnfarm, 07/30/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Zucchini problem,
Patrick Mulkey, 07/30/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Zucchini problem,
Deb Taft, 07/31/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Zucchini problem, Allan.Balliett, 07/31/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Zucchini problem,
Deb Taft, 07/31/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Zucchini problem,
Patrick Mulkey, 07/30/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Zucchini problem,
cjmaness AT juno.com, 07/30/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Zucchini problem, Road's End Farm, 07/30/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] Zucchini problem,
cjmaness AT juno.com, 07/30/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Zucchini problem, William H Shoemaker, 07/30/2010
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