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- From: "Dalew Farms" <dalew AT phonenet.ca>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Insect Pressure
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 05:22:00 -0400
Here in mid-northern Ontario we are seeing tons of
insect pressure. The past two seasons have been much hotter and drier than
normal and I believe that is the reason they are building up...also the most
recent winter was pretty soft also. This year has also been hot and dry
again...so far. I've been here for 7 season, and last year we had more bug
problems than all the other 6 previous years combined, and so fart his season is
looking as bad or worse than last year.
Flea beetles are much stronger than we've ever seen
them. It used to be, even last year, that altho bok choy, chinese cabbage
and arugula would be decimated by flea beetles, they would pretty much leave our
cole crops alone and we didn't see much problems. This year our early
batches of cole crops were so bad that a big percentage of plants have been
killed! We have tried Safers insect soap, but it didn't seem to do
much. We tried Surround and Mycotrol and altho it seemed to help a little,
there is still way too much damage to live with. (Someone was asking about
Mycotrol, and I should point out that our application of Mycotrol was done with
a backpack sprayer, and only directly over the row of plants...I wonder if
Mycotrol might work better if done with a field sprayer and/or covering all the
ground in a field, not just the plants!?!?) Any thoughts on the pros and
cons of using rotonone dust?
Last year we seen spider mites for the first time,
or at least at levels that would cause any damage for the first time. Lost
our first batch of cucumber transplants last year before I picked up on them,
and after that we found that safers soap worked well whenever we noticed many
spider mites, we had troubles with them in cukes, squash transplants and on any
beans, green, yellow and any dry beans. I'm ready for those this year (sort of)
and we put surround + mycotrol on our cucumber transplants right after
they went to the field...they have beeen there for 5 days so far, and I"m not
100% sure what to think of the control with that. When scouting I have
found some red spider mites, but not as many as at peak last year. (altho
either I'm not good at scouting for them, or they are just really, really hard
to actually spot!) However, the cukes are still looking like they have
transplant shock a little instead of taking off and growing....so if that
doesn't change soon I will be spending extra time scouting, and possibly
spraying safers soap for spider mites.
In the last 12 months I've learned more about bugs
than in the rest of my farming career!
Dave
PS - Really, really, really need a rain
here!
Dalew Farms
Web: www.dalewfarms.ca E-mail: dalew AT phonenet.ca Phone: (705)594-1823 Fax: (705)594-1834 10781 Hwy 64, Lavigne Ont P0H 1R0
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[Market-farming] Insect Pressure,
Andy Fellenz, 05/29/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Insect Pressure, Lucy Owsley, 05/29/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Insect Pressure, Barking Cat Farm, 05/29/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Insect Pressure, bobbett, 05/29/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Insect Pressure, Beth Spaugh, 05/29/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] Insect Pressure,
Dalew Farms, 05/31/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Insect Pressure, Brian, 05/31/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Insect Pressure, Road's End Farm, 05/31/2012
- [Market-farming] Rotenone [was: Re: Insect Pressure], Richard Robinson, 05/31/2012
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
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Re: [Market-farming] Insect Pressure,
clearviewfarm, 05/29/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] Insect Pressure,
Barking Cat Farm, 05/30/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Insect Pressure, Road's End Farm, 05/30/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] Insect Pressure,
Barking Cat Farm, 05/30/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Insect Pressure, KAKerby, 05/30/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Insect Pressure, clearviewfarm, 05/30/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Insect Pressure, clearviewfarm, 05/31/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] Insect Pressure, sunnfarm, 05/31/2012
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