to jt, frannie, and dee. if you don't want these because of all these let me know. i'll ship if you email me that you want them.
SHIPPING brugs
Arlene . . you have mail!!
Arlene, yes as always. Sending your surprise tomorrow. Let me know when you get it.
packages out to dee, brugnanny. i am not too smart!
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Go ahead and send mine Arlene.I'll keep them seperate for a while.Nematodes I don't worry about.Chitin,available from farm supply stores,makes short work of them.
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JT, yours will go tomorrow. how long have you used chitin and is it expensive?
the ag people today told me they are experimenting growing a plant called velvet something. they harvest the roots and it's supposed to take all the nematodes with it. the most effective treatments are supposed to be illegal now.
Guess I should have read this post before I asked on the other one about the Chitin. Sorry!! :-)
Marigolds are a famous preventative too!! So I guess we should plant them in our Brug beds - people plant them in with tomatoes.
Arlene--I had asked (what I thought at the time)a weird question a while back. It was about if I could plant brugs where I had a tomato/potato plant previously. Now I'm wondering if rotation would be a good method for the brugs. I didn't really get an answer--What do you think?
Hi Desert_rose.......I will answer you but just know that I know nothing........ and hopefully someone will let you know for sure.......... but tomatoes and brugs do not mix due to viruses......so I would not do that!!
this site has tons of info on brugs........
http://home.att.net/~perennials/abadsvirus.html
scroll down and it discusses tomatoes......... I do not know about potatoes!
Kell I really didn't think they should be planted in the same soil. I need to tell my husband--he thinks I'm full of it half the time. I'll tell him you said not to plant the brugs in the same soil--Grin that's called "passing the buck" I think.
and you know he will think I am all that.........LOL
Yeah I bet he will...Ha! Ha!
DR, i figure you figure right. i think adding lots of organic matter is one good thing to do too.
Arlene--do the "Professional" growers like you feed the benefical microbes in the soil with anything in particular?
lolololol. i'm not a pro, i am pretending, and someday maybe i will be. all i know is lots of organics like black kow, millorganite, and in my sand i use osmocote with minors, it would take a convoy of dump trucks to get enough organics for all my brugs. and mulch to break down. soil and climate is so different everywhere, you have to adjust to what you have.
Arlene,this is my first season to use chitin.I bought it for the okra and figs which are particulally suseptible to nematodes.It should work for brugs too.I didn't use it for brugs this year.I used organic fertilizer(cottonseed meal,bone meal, bedding from the goat barn,and heavy mulch on the inground ones.They didn't seem to suffer.
gee Arlene, you look like a pro to me...............