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DFB, I'm sure I could do a lot better in my pest control for the garden if I tried just a little bit, but what I've done is plant a big enough garden for me and the pests both./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif I'm not a certified organic gardener, and have no intention of becoming one; however, so far I've not used any chemicals (neither pesticides, herbicides nor fertilizer) on the garden. If I get to the point that I can't raise more than we can eat, I'll change that. I do use some diazinon, malathion, and Logic around the house, in and around the shop and barn, and at least part of the yard.
And, yes, Moses would have been proud of our locust plague. <font color=blue>wonder if using floating row cover would help to at least keep them off the garden plants</font color=blue> I'm not sure if we'd be talking about the same thing or not, but last year my brother-in-law (about 4 miles from us) and our nearest neighbor each bought some fabric netting of some kind to put over their tomato plants and the grasshoppers ate right through it in both cases./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif I don't think any of the three of us would have hardly believed it if we hadn't seen it. And those two guys have tried a wide variety of pesticides and neither of them has a garden any more productive than mine. In fact, this year they've each gotten more stuff from my garden than they've gotten from their own./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
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And, yes, Moses would have been proud of our locust plague. <font color=blue>wonder if using floating row cover would help to at least keep them off the garden plants</font color=blue> I'm not sure if we'd be talking about the same thing or not, but last year my brother-in-law (about 4 miles from us) and our nearest neighbor each bought some fabric netting of some kind to put over their tomato plants and the grasshoppers ate right through it in both cases./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif I don't think any of the three of us would have hardly believed it if we hadn't seen it. And those two guys have tried a wide variety of pesticides and neither of them has a garden any more productive than mine. In fact, this year they've each gotten more stuff from my garden than they've gotten from their own./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
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