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FW: Re: Re: This year's garden, rain, & drought, & grasshoppers

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this i am not sure of.  i guess partly you could hand polinate, but that
could get overwhelming.  i wonder if you could leave the top open to allow
access to the beneficials.  anyone out there know??

----Original Message-----
From:    	"Nickie A. Shasteen" <nickie@fanninelectric.com>
To:        	"Tristan Gutknecht" <Tristan@i405.com>
Cc:        	
Bcc:        	
Subject:    	Re: Re: This year's garden, rain, & drought, & grasshoppers
Type:    	IPM.Note
Date:    	Monday, June 26, 2000 7:54 PM

If the garden is covered with net, how do the plants get the male and female
flowers together without the bees, butterflies, etc. getting inside?  We
have net on our fruit trees to protect them from grasshoppers, but they are
only 2 years old so I don't care if they bear fruit this year.

As for how high a grasshopper can jump, they have powerful legs and they do
have wings also, as well as there are different kinds of grasshoppers.  They
are all a menace, a plague, and excellent food for my chickens and guineas!
... Nickie


----- Original Message -----
From: Tristan Gutknecht <Tristan@i405.com>
To: <nickie@fanninelectric.com>
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 10:26 AM
Subject: RE: Re: This year's garden, rain, & drought, & grasshoppers


> i have a non-chemical suggestion to keep the grasshoppers away.  go out
and
> buy some nylon window screening in bulk and as wide as you can get it.
make
> a frame out of inexpensive electrical conduit w/plumbers joints or my
> favorite framing material, welded wire fencing.  neither will rust and can
> be reused for multiple years and even different purposes.  screening
> material is pretty inexpensive, and the rain and sun will make it to your
> plants while keeping the grasshoppers out.  will also not harm the
> beneficials that live in your garden.  i'm not really sure about this next
> idea, but you might eev be able to do a really tall "fence" of screening
> around your entire garden rather than covering certain areas.  i'm not
sure
> how high they jump/fly.  anyone know?
>
> tristan
>
> ----Original Message-----
>    >From:    "Nickie A. Shasteen" <nickie@fanninelectric.com>
>    >To:        "Square Foot Gardening List" <sqft@listbot.com>
>    >Cc:
>    >Bcc:
>    >Subject:    Re: This year's garden, rain, & drought, &
> grasshoppers
>    >Type:    IPM.Note
>    >Date:    Wednesday, June 21, 2000 6:14 PM
>    >
>    >Square Foot Gardening List - http://myweb.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>    >
>    >Laura:  Years ago I visited Florida.  It rained every day of my
> vacation.
>    >Now, back home in Texas it has rained every 3 or 4 days this month.
We
>    >definitely have not had to water.  It is raining (flood warnings out)
> now
>    >and about 68 degrees outside.  Goodness, I could plant broccoli again,
>    >except for the grasshoppers and fire ants!
>    >
>    >I was gone for one week and because of all the good rains, my 9 tomato
>    >plants are now about 6 foot tall and tomatoes everywhere.  I am amazed
> ...
>    >and very glad that grasshoppers do NOT like tomatoes, though they
really
>    >love everything else.
>    >
>    >I am so frustrated that I bought a poison for grasshoppers, supposed
to
> be
>    >safe after 3 days, called "SpectracidePRO" and is 10% permethrin ...
>    >whatever that is.  Anyone have any thoughts?  I HATE poisons!  But
> losing
>    >most of my garden is heartbreaking.  Still, I do want to keep birds,
> worms,
>    >and beneficial bugs.  It has rained so much I have not had a dry time
to
> put
>    >out diatomaceous earth yet.  Howard Garrett (The Dirt Doctor) also
said
> to
>    >try that.  ... Nickie
>    >
>    >----- Original Message -----
>    >From: <Leharner@aol.com>
>    >To: <sqft@listbot.com>
>    >Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 6:19 PM
>    >Subject: Re: This year's garden
>    >
>    >
>    >> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>    >>
>    >> What's rain? <VBG>
>    >> Laura in sunny, cooler but still dry Pensacola
>    >>
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