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Still have whiteflies
"Isabella Woodhouse" wrote in message ... In article , "Marie Dodge" wrote: OK guys, my tomatoes are still covered with whitefly and their small green babies that look like minute aphids. My friend, looking at them today, said she believes they also have spider mites. Her eyesight is better than mine. The NeemOil did almost nothing nor did the Seven dust or Malathion or Bug-Be-Gone. I also sprayed the garden with 1 Tbs. Epsom Salt per gallon of water and if anything, the failed peppers and infested tomatoes look worse today. Any suggestions to save our crops this year? The squash are too far gone with millions of white fly and borers. The squash crop will be removed and burned tomorrow. It's impossible to get the sprays under all the many thousands of leaves. Suggestions anyone... other than to torch the three entire gardens. While we don't usually have this happen in the gardens, I keep some plants on my deck and they have a tendency to get whitefly when it is especially hot and dry. To forestall this, I spray the foliage every day with the hose after the late-afternoon watering, paying special attention to the undersides of the leaves. That works about 70% of the time for me. When it doesn't, I use those sticky yellow traps (like cardboard) and those catch gazillions of whiteflies and aphids. However, you need to situate them so that the birds cannot sit atop them and get stuck. I think there are pheromones for them as well. I can really identify with your squash problems. Those squash vine borers are really horrible. I can't tell you how many times my DH has had to do "surgery" on the vines in the past to save them. This year, for the first time, we put row covers over the zucchini (four different cultivars) and they are all producing and doing well. I go out early every morning and hand-pollinate the female flowers with a little brush. This is not at all difficult with squash flowers. We've never, ever had summer squash this nice before. We use the lightest weight 8 foot wide Agribond (like cloth not plastic) over a make-do lashed wood frame. We started with tensile steel hoops but the plants were much to large and vigorous for them. Our beds are 4 feet wide and we're smack dab in the middle of the country. We're going to use row covers on some fall crops as well, both to keep out pests and extend the season. Best thing since sliced bread. The cost of trying to grow some of our own food is more costly than we'd pay at the store we're finding. What did these row covers cost you if I may be so bold? Isabella -- "I will show you fear in a handful of dust" -T.S. Eliot |
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