Re: [gardeners] gardeners Digest V2 #1682
Margaret Lauterbach (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Mon, 30 Jun 2003 09:44:34 -0600
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>It seems we are having similar problems here in Southern California. Our
>eggplant leaves were beginning to look like grandma's doilies until we
>sprayed BOTH with insecticidal soap (ineffective), and then hauled out the
>big guns of malathion. They are doing beetter now, but we will keep an eye
>peeled.
Planting a trap crop of Asian greens such as a mustard lures flea beetles
and other lace makers away from eggplant.
>
>Our corn, too, is tassling out at about 30" inches, but not all of the
>varieties are: chiefly the "calico" variety, and not the white corn. Here,
>it cannot be the incessant rain, because we have not had any since May
>2nd, and even that late rain is very unusual for us.
>
>As for soil, my wife tills in compost, gypsum, redwood compost, steer
>manure and compost, every year, so it cannot be for lack of nutrients.
The only nutrient I see there is compost. Steer manure is poor in
nutrients, although it has some. Margaret L
>
>Does anyone else have any ideas?
>
>Ron, who is gnashing his teeth because the squirrels got almost all of the
>apricots this year, since he did not have chance to net the tree before
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