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Re: Broccolli problems...pests!

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Go Christy!!!
Peg
-----Original Message-----
From: Christy A. Renfro <kjalar@pacbell.net>
To: Square Foot Gardening List <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Thursday, November 11, 1999 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: Broccolli problems...pests!


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>Cyn,
> BT (Bacillus thuringiensis) is a microbial insecticide that is marketed as
>Dipel, Thuricide and Attack. It is a virus that when ingested by the worms
>kills them. It is approved for organic gardening (food crop) use in
>California. It breaks down quickly and is only effective for a few days, so
>you may need to properly time (look for eggs) your application, or spray
more
>than once to get those in the process of hatching. It takes the worms a
couple
>of days to die (their insides liquefy, eeech!) but they usually stop doing
>damage soon after becoming infected.
>
>I especially like not having to go eye to eye with those big tomato worms
when
>I'm picking. I think I read somewhere that BT even kills mosquito larva,
but I
>wouldn't know what to spray it on to kill them?
>
>Questions are good,
>
>Christy
>
>
>CynMob@aol.com wrote:
>>
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>> fern@ifriendly.com writes:
>>
>> >  Use Bt..
>>
>> Is Bt short for something?  Will the garden store know what Bt is if I
ask
>> for Bt?
>> Sorry, still a little new over in this corner...
>> Cyn
>>
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