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organic pesticide?
Does anyone now if there is something like organic pesticide?
This evening I've found a nasty caterpillar emerging from one of my tomatoes, and drilling into it again! how dreadful! And something looking like a false lady bug eating of the leaves, except the leaves it sat on were drying and almost dead. With tomatoes just beginning to ripen I really don't want to use chemicals. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Andr0 (a new gardener) |
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organic pesticide?
andr0meda wrote:
Does anyone now if there is something like organic pesticide? Safer soap? (I myself use Ivory dish detergent). Maren |
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andr0meda wrote: Does anyone now if there is something like organic pesticide? This evening I've found a nasty caterpillar emerging from one of my tomatoes, and drilling into it again! how dreadful! And something looking like a false lady bug eating of the leaves, except the leaves it sat on were drying and almost dead. With tomatoes just beginning to ripen I really don't want to use chemicals. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Andr0 (a new gardener) Anything you could possibly use is a chemical. Water is a chemical. Organic just means it is derived from natural sources. There are many pesticides derived from plants. Pyrethrin which is made from a type of chrysanthemum is quite common and should work on your beetles but will kill beneficial insects too. BT which is a bacterial spore in a liquid carrier, is usually usually best for caterpillars and generally less likely to hurt beneficials. There are different varieties of BT for different bugs. See http://www.ghorganics.com/Page44.html for a list of organic pesticides. Remember that just because it's organic, it won't poison you if you misuse it. Follow directions and you will be fine. Lorenzo L. Love http://home.thegrid.net/~lllove “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” Cicero |
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organic pesticide?
Lorenzo L. Love wrote:
andr0meda wrote: Does anyone now if there is something like organic pesticide? This evening I've found a nasty caterpillar emerging from one of my tomatoes, and drilling into it again! how dreadful! And something looking like a false lady bug eating of the leaves, except the leaves it sat on were drying and almost dead. With tomatoes just beginning to ripen I really don't want to use chemicals. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Andr0 (a new gardener) Anything you could possibly use is a chemical. Water is a chemical. Organic just means it is derived from natural sources. There are many pesticides derived from plants. Pyrethrin which is made from a type of chrysanthemum is quite common and should work on your beetles but will kill beneficial insects too. BT which is a bacterial spore in a liquid carrier, is usually usually best for caterpillars and generally less likely to hurt beneficials. There are different varieties of BT for different bugs. See http://www.ghorganics.com/Page44.html for a list of organic pesticides. Remember that just because it's organic, it won't poison you if you misuse it. Follow directions and you will be fine. Lorenzo L. Love http://home.thegrid.net/~lllove “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” Cicero That should be "just because it's organic, it won't NOT poison you if you misuse it" Anything can be misused. |
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uh...can't you just pick them off? What am I missing? Then no usage of
anything except your time. "andr0meda" wrote in message ... Does anyone now if there is something like organic pesticide? This evening I've found a nasty caterpillar emerging from one of my tomatoes, and drilling into it again! how dreadful! And something looking like a false lady bug eating of the leaves, except the leaves it sat on were drying and almost dead. With tomatoes just beginning to ripen I really don't want to use chemicals. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Andr0 (a new gardener) |
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Thanks!
I have, last night. I also think this might be best, but I work all waking hours (almost) but, Hey! Tonight I ate my very first own tomato!!!!!!! split and spotty, but nothing wrong with it. Yuppee!!!!!! Andr0 "Thomas" wrote in message ... uh...can't you just pick them off? What am I missing? Then no usage of anything except your time. "andr0meda" wrote in message ... Does anyone now if there is something like organic pesticide? This evening I've found a nasty caterpillar emerging from one of my tomatoes, and drilling into it again! how dreadful! And something looking like a false lady bug eating of the leaves, except the leaves it sat on were drying and almost dead. With tomatoes just beginning to ripen I really don't want to use chemicals. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Andr0 (a new gardener) |
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organic pesticide?
Thank you all for your sound advice! It starts making sense to me after
reading it all, and a few websites that I found as well. Like this one: http://wiwi.essortment.com/homemadeorgani_renu.htm I will keep an eye on those dreadful bugs, Regards, Andr0 |
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