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Re: ANTS, flee beetles, & GRASSHOPPERS

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Thanks, Cathy.  Do keep looking for that grasshopper killer.  I shopped
today and all I could find that was sorta safe for gardens (but deadly to
pets -- keep cats, dogs, chickens, etc off until it dries) was 80% Sevin
Dust.  It sounds fierce and we live in the country with more animals than
can be contained in the house!  And the 80% Sevin Dust costs $60 for 12
acres ... nothing smaller.  My, my!  I'm just about ready to get it after
all the work I have put into my garden.  Our fruit trees are covered with
mosquito netting  ... and I am wondering how they will get pollinated?  Oh
well.  (And please excuse the wrong spelling of "flee".  I was just so
devastated when I saw my garden) ... Nickie
----- Original Message -----
From: Cathy Crome <ccrome@quixnet.net>
To: Square Foot Gardening List <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 12:53 AM
Subject: Re: ANTS, flee beetles, & GRASSHOPPERS


> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
> 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
>
>
> > Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> >
> > 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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