"Billy" wrote in message
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"Tom J" wrote:

http://tomshomeplace.com/Janis-garden-2009.html
We just have a small garden for the 2 of us, but it produces above
average yields You will notice we use wheat straw for top mulch &
there is a reason. We could not control white flies until Walter
Reeves suggested the wheat straw. The straw is home to hundreds of
spiders that eat every white fly before they have wings!!

I have the same results with alfalfa. When I wet it down, there is a
mass exodus of spiders.

When I had bindweed problems, its only redeeming quality was the hundreds of
spiders it housed. If I ever stepped in the middle of a patch I could
expect at least a half a dozen spiders crawling up my leg! Now I no longer
have bindweed, but I like to believe the spiders are living under my dead
grass mulch.
--S.