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N&C Midwest July 2022
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N&C Midwest July 2022
I have been watering my beds every 3rd day.
My peppers and maters are good—-the unknown squashes/melons/cukes? Who knows….I need to label way better—I say this every year!
They will all get watered in the morning when it’s tolerable—glad I don’t live in the heat zone!
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"In short, the soil food web feeds everything you eat and helps keep your favorite planet from getting too hot. Be nice to it." ~ Diane Miessler, "Grow Your Soil"
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Weeded the corn, and pulled the garlic—I will take pictures in a bit—it just got so hot! But the garlic is out, I only lost one head (overdone and left it in the bed…might dig around for it later). My unknown things (squash or melon) are starting to blossom. Need to get some lettuce off, as it’s getting too hot for it—looking for signs of bolting.
Will make pesto today too, the basil is growing like crazy and I bought pine nuts and parm.
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Re: N&C Midwest July 2022
It is very dry here too! I am watering every other day to keep things going. I was SUPER excited today to see that my first round of green beans have baby green beans on them. Yeah! I also have 2 Orange Zest tomatoes ripening and 1 Sun Sugar tomato. Still battling the earwigs and I think they might be winning!!! Applying the neem oil and it is helping. I think the wet spring supported this explosion of earwigs. They are mostly just affecting my swiss chard and sadly my basil and zinnias too. Got quite a few peppers starting to grow including one Buena Mulata pepper from a plant I grew from seed. I am pretty proud of that! It's purple and beautiful. LOL
Rain looks like it might be in the forecast this week and I am really hoping that we get a good soaking!
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"In short, the soil food web feeds everything you eat and helps keep your favorite planet from getting too hot. Be nice to it." ~ Diane Miessler, "Grow Your Soil"
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I'm a new convert to spinosad (and insecticidal soap). The earwigs were resting down in the base of the Swiss chard stalks and coming out at night to feast on the leaves. I sprayed down in that hiding space and it was sooo rewarding to see dead earwigs the next day.JAM23 wrote:Happy July! I can't believe it is July already! . . . Still battling the earwigs and I think they might be winning!!! Applying the neem oil and it is helping. I think the wet spring supported this explosion of earwigs. They are mostly just affecting my Swiss chard and sadly my basil and zinnias too.
I ripped out the nasty looking Blue Lake bean plants and sowed new soaked seeds. The first one to pop up had the terminal growing tip nibbled off. I sprayed the bed and light E-Z Straw with spinosad at sundown. The next 16 beans to sprout have no sign of nibbling!

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yolos wrote: So do you think this would work on my cowpeas and beans. Or is there something better. I have neem and insecticidal soap also.
According to the the National Pesticide Information Center
"Spinosad is a natural substance made by a soil bacterium that can be toxic to insects. It is a mixture of two chemicals called spinosyn A and spinosyn D. It is used to control a wide variety of pests. These include thrips, leafminers, spider mites, mosquitoes, ant, fruit flies and others.
Spinosad has been registered for use in pesticides by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) since 1997."
Based on that, it should control the spider mites on your beans. I just don't like spraying on blooms or while pollinators are flying.
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Thanks OG. Yes I do also like to spray before blooming, also early evening.OhioGardener wrote:yolos wrote: So do you think this would work on my cowpeas and beans. Or is there something better. I have neem and insecticidal soap also.
According to the the National Pesticide Information Center
"Spinosad is a natural substance made by a soil bacterium that can be toxic to insects. It is a mixture of two chemicals called spinosyn A and spinosyn D. It is used to control a wide variety of pests. These include thrips, leafminers, spider mites, mosquitoes, ant, fruit flies and others.
Spinosad has been registered for use in pesticides by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) since 1997."
Based on that, it should control the spider mites on your beans. I just don't like spraying on blooms or while pollinators are flying.
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nrstooge-I am somewhat in the opposite position as you. Peppers seems to be coming along good. Several banana, jalapeno, melrose and serrano peppers are developing. Eggplant and cucumbers seem to be WAY behind. Hoping that this deep soaking of water will help.
I will have to look for spinosad for my ongoing battle with earwigs in my swiss chard. Just hate to purchase another product for the garden right now. But, it may have to come to that!
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JAM23 wrote:I will have to look for spinosad for my ongoing battle with earwigs in my swiss chard. Just hate to purchase another product for the garden right now. But, it may have to come to that!
If the Earwigs are still a major problem, you might want to make a couple traps for them to get rid of them. Take a couple styrofoam coffee cups with plastic lids. Drill 6 or 7 quarter inch holes in the lids. Mix enough liquid of equal parts of olive oil and soy sauce to put and inch of the mixture in the bottom of each cup. Then bury the cups so just the lid is flush with the ground. The smell of the soy sauce will attract the Earwigs and they will crawl into the cups and drown.
"In short, the soil food web feeds everything you eat and helps keep your favorite planet from getting too hot. Be nice to it." ~ Diane Miessler, "Grow Your Soil"
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I'm going to have to try this too OhioGardener. I removed many of the damaged leaves yesterday on all of my plants and at the base of each one were a whole gang of earwigs having a party and leaving behind lots of excrement. GROSS!OhioGardener wrote:JAM23 wrote:I will have to look for spinosad for my ongoing battle with earwigs in my swiss chard. Just hate to purchase another product for the garden right now. But, it may have to come to that!
If the Earwigs are still a major problem, you might want to make a couple traps for them to get rid of them. Take a couple styrofoam coffee cups with plastic lids. Drill 6 or 7 quarter inch holes in the lids. Mix enough liquid of equal parts of olive oil and soy sauce to put and inch of the mixture in the bottom of each cup. Then bury the cups so just the lid is flush with the ground. The smell of the soy sauce will attract the Earwigs and they will crawl into the cups and drown.
I have additional swiss chard planted in a different garden bed and it seems mostly unaffected. So weird that one area would be hit so hard while another one is relatively okay. (Hopefully it stays that way)
You all are the best! Thanks for all the time and suggestions!
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My suggestion is to spray spinosad at the base of the plants where you see them partying. Do this before disturbing the plants. You should be able to knock the numbers wayJAM23 wrote: . . . I'm going to have to try this too OhioGardener. I removed many of the damaged leaves yesterday on all of my plants and at the base of each one were a whole gang of earwigs having a party and leaving behind lots of excrement. GROSS!!
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sanderson wrote:My suggestion is to spray spinosad at the base of the plants where you see them partying. Do this before disturbing the plants. You should be able to knock the numbers wayJAM23 wrote: . . . I'm going to have to try this too OhioGardener. I removed many of the damaged leaves yesterday on all of my plants and at the base of each one were a whole gang of earwigs having a party and leaving behind lots of excrement. GROSS!!
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Thanks sanderson!
Is there a brand/type that you have found successful?
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Was planning on transplanting the squash and cucumber plants into the gardens today, but they can wait a few more days while things settle down.
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I am going to start some Fall kale, chard and summer squash as back ups should anything (SVB) take down my current plantings.
Heading out on vacation next week and leaving the garden care to my daughter for the week so I will be trying to get things prepped so it's as easy as possible for her to manage. She's young, so I'll be lucky if she just gets it watered while we are away. LOL
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I would love to know what kind of squash I have that made it, so I could start another kind! I guess I could keep the neighbors awash in zucchini if nothing else!
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Also planted the winter carrot and beet seeds.
"In short, the soil food web feeds everything you eat and helps keep your favorite planet from getting too hot. Be nice to it." ~ Diane Miessler, "Grow Your Soil"
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