Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

For the stinkbugs, I have used Diatomaceous Earth with great success.
Just sprinkle it liberally around the plants and reapply after it rains.

A dog or cat for the squirrels .

On 2/16/2014 11:47 AM, fiddlewoman1@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> Hi Jim and group
>
> In the last 3 years we have 2 serious gardening problems that I can't
> find solutions to.
>
> 1) we have been invaded by stink bugs, and no matter what I have
> tried, they had managed to totally ruin our cucumbers and squash. We
> have removed all the debris, even used a burner to torch any left over
> debris, and possible hiding places for bugs, and still they
> have killed our crops.
>
> 2) Squirrels have developed a taste for my delicious heritage
> tomatoes, and eat most of them - or rather, take one bite and toss
> them down. They start with green ones. They even run up and down my
> plants which are strung up to the T frames. My yield has gone from
> bushels to maybe a gallon or two of tomatoes for the whole season. We
> are thinking of making a chicken wire hoop that goes over the T frames
> and is fastened to the ground to attempt to keep them out this year.
>
> My garden has been organic for 20+ years, and used Mittleider for at
> least 6 of those years; and between months of rain, pests and bugs we
> have lost most of it the last three years. We can hardly buy
> vegetables that aren't foreign or sprayed with pesticides here, and
> even farmers markets are full of produce grown using pesticides and
> other things that I don't want to feed my family, and now we can't
> grow the things we love.
>
> Any ideas/suggestions on how to combat these pests would be greatly
> appreciated!!!!!
>
> Veda Bafford
>
>

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