Re: the plague!!!
- Subject: Re: the plague!!!
- From: &* C* <c*@sonet.net>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 09:15:50 -0500
Thank You
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bart Toftness" <toftness@mindspring.com>
To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: the plague!!!
it is a 'barrier' made from garlic extracts....try a google search for it
J. Carroll wrote:
What is garlic barrier?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bart Toftness"
<toftness@mindspring.com>
To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: the plague!!!
if you insist on organic controls then try garlic barrier. if you can
repel them fine but dead is best.
bart
megan reiss wrote:
this year, i was really planning to have a pumpkin that was at least a
few hundred pounds (2 or 300), large enough to take to the local Fair
at the end of the summer. i got awesome seed stock from kind people
around the country.
i prepped the soil well.
i started the seeds indoors and coddled them with seaweed fertilizer
and so on. introduced them slowly to the outdoors.
what do you think happened?
freaking cucumber beetles. never had a problem with them before.
noticed them last year for the first time -- they nibbled slightly on
some of the pumpkin skins themselves, but didn't cause any major
damage.
this year, they are DEVOURING my pumpkin plants and won't go away!
i have been spraying insecticidal soap like a fiend, spraying hot
pepper wax ... it may work for a few hours or maybe a day or two, and
then the beetles are back.
the other day, they were just swarming all over my prize pumpkin, at
least a dozen of them, and they kept coming right back no matter how
much i sprayed. finally i went inside and made up a concoction of
straight red pepper flakes and atomic hot sauce with a little water,
and doused the entire plant in it, since i feared it was a lost cause
anyway.
i didn't notice beetles for a day or two, but i'm sure they'll be back
again.
miserable bugs. it figures.
i feel like i will end up with NO pumpkins this year, at this rate.
no wonder why people spray poison all over everything.
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