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Post  shannon1 4/12/2011, 3:17 am

Trap crops 27650 is thinking of your neighbors non-SFG as a trap crop wrong? Trap crops 27650
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Post  westie42 4/12/2011, 3:22 am

Ok night owl what is a trap crop. I may be 70 and have lived and gardened in Fl too but that is a new one on me.
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Post  shannon1 4/12/2011, 3:31 am

Trap crops are when you lure pests away from your garden by planting their favorite thing far but not too far from garden. A trap crop is a plant that attract insect pests away from nearby crops. This form of companion planting can save the main target of agriculture from decimation by pests without the potential issues and controversey involved in using pesticides. Twisted Evil


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Post  westie42 4/12/2011, 3:36 am

Thanks, guess that is why my gardening in Manatee county did poorly.
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Post  shannon1 4/12/2011, 3:41 am

Are you saying you were growing the trap. I have been feeling that way a little latley, what with the aphids,mealy bugs, and florida leaf footed bugs. Organic gardening sure is not easy here in the warm sunny south.
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Post  martha 4/12/2011, 2:30 pm

shannon1 wrote:Trap crops 27650 is thinking of your neighbors non-SFG as a trap crop wrong? Trap crops 27650


No.

Picking off the leafminers and hornworms and slugs and taking them over to their non-SFG - now that's wrong!
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Post  BackyardBirdGardner 4/12/2011, 5:37 pm

Depends on whether or not you like your neighbor, imo.
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Post  shannon1 4/15/2011, 1:35 am

OH, they are nice enough. I moved a pot of toms yesterday and found 3 giant ivory millipedes used a tomato stake to relocate them golf style to the vacant area between us. Man here you can weigh the bug on a bathroom scale they are so big. Oh, and those buggies roll realy well. Very Happy
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