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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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[Market-farming] Harlequin bugs, revisited,
Steve Diver, 05/17/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] Harlequin bugs, revisited,
Richard Stewart, 05/17/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Harlequin bugs, revisited, Steve Diver, 05/18/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] Harlequin bugs, revisited,
Richard Stewart, 05/17/2012
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