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Re: ANTS, flee beetles, & GRASSHOPPERS

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My garden WAS so beautiful last week that I wanted to gloat, but didn't and
didn't even take a picture  ... was going to this week after all the
birthday celebrations and company.  WELL ... the sweet corn (planted like
Mel did in Organic Gardening  ... very close together) WAS gorgeous and HAD
beautiful little baby ears.  The peppers WERE prolifically almost three foot
tall and bearing (already ate some).  The nine tomato plants of various
kinds ARE 5 1/2 foot tall and 3 foot wide and covered with growing green
tomatoes.  The climbing green beans ARE 8 to 10 feet tall and blooming and
wanting something else to climb higher.  I will make an overhead trellis so
they can go up and over to the next row.   The cabbage (that I have never
grown before) WERE a sight to behold.  The two varieties of squash are so
prolific that I am speechless!  They are about 3 !/2 feet wide and nearly 3
feet tall.
BUT .. in the three days I was out of pocket, the grasshoppers have eaten
the lettuce, peppers, and corn until they look like lace and the fireants
have covered the ears of corn.  For some reason they have not bothered the
tomatoes and squash, but are beginning on the beans.  AND I DIDN'T GET A
PICTURE EVEN.
Two weeks ago we put out an organic poison, but later read ALL of the
directions .. takes 4 or 5 weeks to be effective   ... but only takes three
days for grasshoppers to eat a crop to the ground.
Things I think I have learned:
1.  Square Foot Gardening is WONDERFUL  !!!!! and takes so little work when
I mulch.
2.  My farm store owner says Sevin Dust 8% will kill grasshoppers, ants, and
flea beetles.  Comes in a package to do 12 acres and costs $58.00 plus tax.
I guess I will have to use it this summer and be ready for a FALL GARDEN.  I
have always been organic.  But this is a plague.  I don't know what else to
do!  As my grandchildren say, "This isn't fair!"   ... Nickie


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