RE: spider mites was: Gardener's dance routines - Free LEWISIA

Hi Marge,  You know how to tell it like it is! I thought I was the only one
that thinks Jerry Baker's advice is for the birds!  Unfortunately, our local
PBS station runs his programs ad nauseum during the 6 times a year they are
begging for money.  Wish they would have Roger Swain with his good advice on
instead.
Marilyn Dube'
Natural Design Plants
Hardy Perennials, Choice Tropicals
Portland, OR   Zone 8b

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From:	owner-perennials@mallorn.com [owner-perennials@mallorn.com] On
Behalf Of Marge Talt
Sent:	Saturday, May 29, 1999 8:27 PM
To:	perennials@mallorn.com
Subject:	Re: spider mites  was:  Gardener's dance routines - Free LEWISIA

Dot,
There is no quick fix; no poison you can spray on your soil that will
eliminate insect pests from your garden.   Insects will always be with us.
And, particularly with food crops, what you put on your crops also goes
into your stomach, so you might want to learn which chemicals have what
kind of residual effects, etc....just a thought.

I would also be very careful using tobacco solution remedies, as tobacco is
one of the most lethal poisons on the planet in liquid form....Jerry Baker
is irresponsible in his advocacy of this treatment, especially since I once
read, in one of his flyers, that he suggested storing the solution in empty
soda cans.  I was appalled....it would be so easy for a child to get their
hands on it and drink it and that would mean death.  His homebrew formulas
sound like inexpensive solutions, but if you stop and figure out what the
ingredients actually cost, they turn out to be rather expensive used in the
garden and totally scientifically unproved as effective.  Unfortunately,
his "master gardener" title is self given and his marketing abilities
exceed his horticultural abilities.

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: dot <cdpierce@intop.net>
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: Gardener's dance routines - Free LEWISIA
> Date: Friday, May 28, 1999 2:25 PM
>
> HELP HELP!!!!! Can anyone tell me what to use to kill spider mites on
> tomatoes?have sprayed them with liquid sevin,didn't work,they have fruit
on
> them the size of a baseball,but still full of blooms,what can i use that
> won't kill the blooms, but get rid of the mites?
> Dot zone7 NE Ms.
>
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