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- From: dipirro@star.dec.com (Steve DiPirro)
- Subject: Organic controls for cutworms?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.224703.5894@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:41:09 GMT
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- Last year, for the first time in many years of growing potatoes,
- many were damaged by what I believe to be cutworms in the soil.
- These 1/2-3/4", orange-ish, segmented, hard-shelled worms/larvae
- with pinchers for mouths would burrow into my potatoes, do some
- damage themselves and weaken the potato to allow moisture and rot
- to set in. I had most of 60 plants worth of potatoes ruined.
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- I can only use organic controls for such things. So I do not
- want to use diazinon in the soil, although I've heard this works
- for cutworms. If I'm not dealing with cutworms, then I'd like
- to know that too. If I am, I'm interested in any organic controls
- for these beasts in the soil. Thanks.
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