On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Parks, Raymond <rcpa...@sandia.gov> wrote: > (it's organic :-). Alternately, you wait two weeks after all your > neighbours have planted squash and then plant. All the bugs will go to > them first and you shouldn't have many of them.
This suggests another option: When you cull your seedlings, select twice the number of plants you need. Pick out the weakest half. Plant them. Wait 2 weeks. Destroy the planting. Plant the (now two weeks older) 1st string plants. Maybe less bugs. Ah, I remember the nights in pumpkins patch. A flashlight beam through the vines exposed the shadows of the (huge!) vine-borer grubs. Then, with scalpel and hemostats, we'd extract the grubs, finally wrapping and taping the wounds and injecting a good dose of Bacillus thuringiensis. I don't garden anymore. ~~James ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
