Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Hi Barb and welcome to the Family. Say on your cabbage worm problem. Try
slipping the emerging heads into the foot of a cheap nylon stocking. You can get
them at the Dollar store. And the Jalapenos ground up and boiled and strained
make a great spray against bugs and critters attacking other produce.
jeff

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From: blaise_25053 <blaise_25053@yahoo.com>
To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, August 19, 2010 6:52:32 AM
Subject: [Organic_Gardening] Newbie Intro

Hi,

I'm Barbara,
Living with my family in Zone 6 WV. Recently built some raised beds and tried to
garden organically. Lost most of garden to pest and disease while neighbors
harvested much better crops using typical pesticides like seven.

Cabbage Worms destroyed my cabbage. I tried Diatomaceous Earth and it didn't
help and so researched and it's not good for honeybees. Research sent me to
Dipel dust. Had a time finding it and rainy summer just washed it away.

Mexican Bean Beatles devoured my pole and bush beans, cucumbers, squash. I
suspect squash bugs also as vines died and a pumpkin that was looking good (only
one) something had bored into the bottom and it rotted inside. Insecticidal soap
didn't help and rainy summer again.

Brandywine tomatoes tall and spindly and diseased. Same for striper
About the only thing that grew well was jalapeno peppers although they had/have
woody striations all over that are not pleasing to the eye.

Currently have cleared squash bed and solarizing soil. Same for cabbage bed
however put cornmeal on cabbage bed (read somewhere it kills fungus/disease so
why not give it a try.) Will do same for other beds however I want to plant a
cover crop of mustard, kale, etc. to turn under in spring.

Have built a compost area with blocks. One side for fresh the other to leave
over winter and use in spring.

So here I am. Hoping to learn about organic gardening and perhaps harvest a
better crop next year.
Barb

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