Try nematodes. They attack soil insects and larvae (wire worms, grubs, etc) without harming plants. Dan Dixon > From: penny x stamm <pennyx1@Juno.com> > Reply-To: gardeners@globalgarden.com > Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 23:17:43 -0500 > To: gardeners@globalgarden.com > Subject: Re: [gardeners] Planted > > George, I'm a bit behind in my messages -- but I would like to > ask something: there are plenty of veggie seeds which we have > planted over the years, but there's one that never does well, > in any cultivar, and that's radish. We don't croud them, we do > water them (perhaps too much), but even when everything else > is growing fine, the radishes have insect blemishes in their > pulp. Is there such a thing as an insecticide which is not toxic to > humans, but could save our radishes? > > Penny, NY