Re: Cold weather & pests
Thanks for the info, Chris !
What are Marigolds and nasturtiums ??
Is nasturtium the latin name ??
If so, can you give me the full latin name
of those two plants ?? I don't speak English,
so I don't know the local names....
Thanks again !
Wim
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Van: "Michalec, Chris" <cmicha@chmc.org>
Aan: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Verzonden: dinsdag 9 januari 2001 18:42
Onderwerp: RE: Cold weather & pests
>
> Hi Wim,
> Those black "leaf lice" that attract ants are aphids. If you look
> closely they are often a purlpe color. The ants "farm" them and collect
the
> honeydew "liquid aphid poop" mostly sugars that the ant feed on. Aphids
are
> a problem as they drain vital juices from the plants weakening them and
are
> known to carry viral diseases from one crop to another. They could infect
> the pumpkins with the watermelon mosaic virus which has no treatment or
> cure. I used micorrhizal innoculant last year on my plants. I didn't see
> any significant difference, but I did grow my largest pumpkins yet, so
> apparantly no harm done. Marigolds, and nasturtiums have been purported
to
> be useful and repelling unwanted insect pests. I have grown marigolds
next
> to my pumpkin hills the past two seasons, but haven't really noticed if
they
> really helped in that regard. It would take a significant number of
> marigolds to really cover a pumpkin patch once the plants take off.
Garlic
> is said to repel aphids and I must admit I have never had an aphid problem
> with my garlic. As for its effectiveness in repelling them from
surrounding
> plants I think they probably aren't much help. I have grown dahlias
around
> my patch for the past two seasons and have found them to be an effective
> trap crop for spotted cucumber beetles. The beetles seem to prefer the
> dahias smooth leaves, stems and flowers to the prickly pumpkin plants.
Last
> season I only found two cucumber beetles in male pumpkin flowers when I
was
> done pollinating. I found a lot more on the dahlias. Cucumber beetles
can
> also carry viral diseases and growing in an area where I cannot use
chemical
> pesticides I have found this to be an effective control.
>
> Chris Michalec
> Covington, WA
>
> > I know that some people use other plants to keep insects
> > away from their favourite crop. Why not fungi ??
> >
> > By the way, did any of you already use a plant to protect
> > another one from 1 specific insect ?? If so, what was the result ??
> > I once used onions to get snails away......Just throw them at the little
> > bastards !!!....:-))
> > No, when you plant onions around a plant, some kind of snails just don't
> > come near anymore ! ! They don't like the smell.
> >
> > On fungicides, I never used them in gardening....., except to get
> > some garden-woodwork last longer. Never to keep plants free
> > from fungi. The things, which do the most harm to plants over
> > here, are mildew and some kind of black 'leaf-lice' which always
> > sits in colonies on the leaves. They also attract ants.
> >
> > Greetings.
> >
> > Wim Van Loock
> > "Mr. Belgium" - I liked that........ :-))
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> > Aan: pumpkins@mallorn.com <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
> > Verzonden: dinsdag 9 januari 2001 0:56
> > Onderwerp: Re: Cold weather & pests
> >
> > Nice article Mr.Belgium...thanks. It confirms what I thought about
> > this when
> > it was discussed last year on the list.....that the methods we use
> > of
> > overfertilization and watering (or at least to excess ! ) ,and the
> > constant
> > pampering pretty much eliminate the big benefit hoped for. Also,I
> > sometimes
> > wonder if our preventive and scheduled applications of
> > Benlate,Benomil,Daconyl ( fungisides), etc would wipe out any high
> > dollar
> > fungi before any benefits were seen.......just my two cents worth.
> > Again...thanks for the article..........G
> >
>
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