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Re: Undercover bugs

Stan (tcalg),

It's my observation that most people worry way too much about bugs. 
Most of them won't do any appreciable damage and the ones that do can be
controlled with specific techniques.  Chemical control of soil-borne
pests is best accomplished with Diazanon, but I quit using the stuff 15
years ago and the only problem I ever have is with cabbage root maggots
-- and I've solved that with floating row (bed) covers.  I'm getting the
best cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower I ever have, even when I used
Diazanon!

In my area there are no tomato and pepper pests except slugs, and I
control them with a metaldehyde (synthetic alcohol) meal.  (Correy's
slug bait -- looks like sawdust.)

You may have problems with onion maggots, but I have only ever had one
or two onions bothered by them out of an entire crop.  And I grow over
100 lbs of onions per year.

Steve  (Maritime...)


Ross E Stanford wrote:
> 
> I'm sorry,  I just can't get into bugs.
> I think it was Steve who suggested that I might
> find them fascinating if I really got to studying them.
>      Anyway, I have two rows of my garden, 5 feet wide by
> 50 feet long, covered in 6 mil black plastic with holes
> for my tomato plants, pepper plants and onion sets.
> My soaker hoses run underneath the plastic.
>      What kind of bugs are going to cause me sorrow
> under there where I can't get to them?  Can I use some
> kind of bug killer through my soaker hoses?  Maybe Sevin?
> This kind of treatment shouldn't hurt the good above ground
> bugs, should it?
> Thanks for you help.
> 
> Stan             the cheap and lazy gardener
> 
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