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Re: Root Maggots and also garlic wax

Libby J. Goldstein wrote:
> 
> Steve et al
> 
> If root maggots and not club root are your problem, try beneficial nematodes.
> 

Certainly root maggots in my case.  I mash the lil' obscenities when I
pull up a deceased plant, and when I harvest cabbage I always pull up
the root and pinch any I find.

My veggie patch is on 1/4 acre of previously uncultivated soil.  (It was
cut for hay in the 1960's and 1970's but it was never seeded.)  I've
never introduced a "foreign" plant to my garden, and very few diseases
are transmitted by seed (and clubroot isn't one of them).  Clubroot is
not common in the Pac NW.  I have never heard of a case, but would be
interested in anyone else's experience.  I understand that clubroot is
common in N.E. North America and the U.K.

Steve

> If the problem turns out to be club root, rotate AND try raising your soil
> pH with lime, wood ash, Phosphate rock or whatever.
> 
> Try mixing the garlic with beeswax if it' easily available. The wax
> supposedly protect the leaves while the garlic acts as a deterrent to
> feeding and just hanging around in general.
> 
> Libby
> 
> libby@igc.apc.org       Libby J. Goldstein       phone & fax: 215-465-8878
>             Philadelphia      USDA zone 7A       Sunset zone 32
> 
>         My garden must be n-dimensional if it's out here in cyberspace.
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