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Re: newbie commenting on tiny gardens & bugs

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


The only Lee Valley I can find is real estate, or Gay/Lesbian retreat 
or woodworking.  :-)  

Do you have the URL?

I've been using empty (but not washed) cat food cans with 1/2" oil 
and soy sauce.  Catching a score a day.  Which is pretty cool, of 
course, but apparently not enough yet!  :-)


> Lee Valley has some dandy earwig traps in a recent catalog---and you could
> make them with a bit of imagination, once you see them....
> 
> My two cents,
> 
> Frank
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pippi <pippi@mindspring.com>
> To: sqft@listbot.com <sqft@listbot.com>
> Date: Sunday, May 23, 1999 8:41 PM
> Subject: newbie commenting on tiny gardens & bugs
> 
> 
> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> 
> 
> This is my first year of gardening.  I chose square foot in a
> homemade box surrounded on all sides by chickenwire (squirrels
> dig up everything within an hour!) since I'm in a rental house and
> can't really dig up the sod.
> 
> The problem I'm having is that my little 4 sq feet is the only garden in
> the area.  So of course, it draws every bug in sight.  *sigh*
> 
> Earwigs.  Aphids.  And some other teensy tiny little black fly thing
> that I don't know.....  might be what's destroying my beans.  wah.
> 
> Anyone ever use beneficial insects on 4 sq ft?  I went ahead and
> ordered some green lacewings, because I'd really like to get
> *something* other than the elephant garlic to harvest. (I'm thinking
> companion planting doesn't work, cuz my traumatized little beans
> are right next to the lush garlic and it doesn't seem to help them
> any)
> 

> I don't think I'll keep the lacewings around for long though.  Might
> not be enough food for them.  They'll skeedaddle to my neighbors'
> I'm sure, once they run out of bugs in my 4 sqft.
> 
> Mostly I just wanted to say Hi, complain a bit, and put the subject
> out there for comment.
> 
> Hi!
> 
> <whine whine>
> 
> Comments?
> 
> 
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