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Re: ANTS, flee beetles, & GRASSHOPPERS

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Hi Nickie,
Several years ago we had the same problem with grasshoppers.  I wish I could
remember where we got "Grasshopper Attack", it really did the trick.  Maybe
Ortho? Gardens Alive??  I'm going to keep looking.  Also, if you find any
very large black and bright yellow spiders in your garden, leave them there.
They look really nasty (I don't know if they are to humans) but they are
deadly to grasshoppers.  I used to shoo them away or kill them until I saw
one catch and proceed to eat an entire grasshopper.  Now when I find them I
move them to a corner of the garden to make a new home.  They make
incredible webs and are fun to watch.  (I'm not a real fan of spiders, these
are just great for getting rid of the bugs).
I'm hoping that it has been so long since there has been a garden here that
the normal garden critters will stay away.
Cathy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nickie A. Shasteen" <nickie@fanninelectric.com>
To: "Square Foot Gardening List" <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 11:45 PM
Subject: 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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