Re: vine borers - some good solutions....
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- Subject: Re: vine borers - some good solutions....
- From: D*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 23:29:47 EST
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Howdy!
I have found the best success:
1. Put up milk jugs of molasses, water and vinegar...to trap the moths.
(1 gallon jugs, cut a good size hole in jug for moths to fly in and get
stuck.
4 TBSP of molasses, 1 QT H20, and 1 tsp of vinegar.)
2. Use the garden fabric that is 95% transparent (8ft x 96 ft from gardens
alive)
and put up 9 gauge wire hoops over the MAIN vine. (do more to protect
other
secondaries you wish) You will have to let the secondaries "out" and not
let
them get "caught" in the fabric. Yes, it is work...but better for the
environment.
3. I have used nematodes and have injected them into the main vines for 2
years
now....not sure i need to anymore with #1 and #2 and #4.
(hard to gauge effectiveness versus cost)
4. I used a rotation sevin(for the moths), Thiodan(sp?) and Malathon.
I caught a bunch of moths last year in the traps and I saw and killed a few
by hand...I only had to cut out 2 borers from a main vine and I believe that
was due to it coming up from inside the fabric....so you will still need to
spray the vine inside the fabric. Also keep the fabric on the WHOLE
summer....I took mine down in August only to see more moths later! What a
PEST, eh!
Good Luck in 2000!
David Bhaskaran
Rochester, MN
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