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Is there a pesticide on the market for soil borne pests?
Don't want to upset you organic people but each to their own!
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Don't want to upset you organic people but each to their own!
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Using a Pesticide for soil borne pests will wipe out all the soil fauna and make your soil useless for years.I love growing tomatoes. -
I agree.. use with extreme caution if all else fails as they will ruin the balance of the soil.
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What pests are you trying to eradicate? A blanket blitz on everything in the soil would just be plain stupid.Originally posted by baggyman View PostComment
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There are a lot of 'good guys' in the soil as well baggyman.
Soil pesticides have to be applied at very high dosage (saturating the soil) to permeate through the topsoil. This means that any residue will hit the subsoil, usually clay, and ultimately finish up in the waterways causing indescriminate damage.
This is why there are no soil pesticides available to the amateur.
Either steaming or burning small ammounts is sometimes practised for sterilising composts.My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
Diversify & prosper
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What pest is bothering you Baggyman? There will be a specific remedy for it, I'm sureAll gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.Comment
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Bit of everything really, cabbage root fly, flea beetle, carrot fly wire worm etc you name it , I got it
How would you steam soil?Comment
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Ok, let's be a bit realistic here. You have cabbage root fly, flea beetle and carrot fly. You can minimise if not totally eradicate the damage from each of these pests by using a barrier such as fleece or environmesh. Having said that, I lost my first sowing of carrots for the kitchen and also my parsley to the fly. Must have shut them in instead of shutting them out.
That makes me the stupid one. I didn't have the edges of my fleece properly fixed down so a lesson there for everyone.
Wireworm(larvae of the click beetle) are a different kettle of fish and not something I have direct experience of, but there are a few ideas on this web site. Creating the Wire Worm-Free Garden. I think the objective really is to break the reproductive cycle.Comment
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isn't a soil pest, it's a fly - you can easily stop the damage by laying collars around your cabbage stems when planting outOriginally posted by baggyman View Post
again, not a soil pest at all, it's a beetle on the leaves. Treating the soil would have no effect on it whatsoever. The damage is usually superficial. If it really bothers you, move along the row with a sticky pad (home-made). The beetles will jump up and stick to the trapOriginally posted by baggyman View Post
Again, not a soil pest, it's a fly. You need to cover the crop from start to finishOriginally posted by baggyman View Post
Now this one is a soil pest, but is virtually eradicated once you start cultivating the ground: it hates being disturbedOriginally posted by baggyman View PostLast edited by Two_Sheds; 25-08-2011, 06:56 AM.All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.Comment
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Small ammounts for potting compost can beOriginally posted by baggyman View Post
'steamed' in a microwave.My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
Diversify & prosper
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