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Re: ANTS, flee beetles, & GRASSHOPPERS

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Hi Nickie,
   If you can do without it don't use the Sevin.  I won't use anything
chemical because my garden is at the top of a steep hill and water runs down
to the creek and pond below.  Sometimes we need to think about the end
result rather than the immediate solutions. I'll keep looking. Grasshopper
Attack is a biological (bacterial?) disease that only affects grasshoppers.
It may go by another name with different manufacturers. I'll check.
Cathy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nickie A. Shasteen" <nickie@fanninelectric.com>
To: "Square Foot Gardening List" <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 12:08 AM
Subject: Re: ANTS, flee beetles, & GRASSHOPPERS


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