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  • From: Steve Diver <steved AT ipa.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Harlequin bugs, revisited
  • Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 13:06:18 -0500

Once you get a trap crop filled with insects, that's when a flamer comes in handy.

Steve Diver


Richard Stewart wrote:
Steve

Not too sure it will help, but we found over the last two years an amazingly large number of the insects in our horseradish. We are up to about a 100 pounds of harvest so you can imagine quite a bit of leaf density. The thing is, they did zero damage to the root harvest even though 1/3 of all leaves were heavily damaged. They were not found in adjacent beds. I am wondering if you could use it as a trap crop.

This year we companion planting horseradish in 30' beds with sweet potatoes in side-by-side rows with another bunch of sweet potato rows by themselves as a control of sorts. It'll be interesting to see there is a similar density of insects in these rows as well.

Anyone else have similar experience?








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