Controlling Pests and Diseases in the house Vegetable garden

Control of Pests:

Pest operate is very leading to the thriving gardener! Cultural practices, such as eliminating all weeds and grass from your garden, including the covering edges, are very important. This will minimize their chance to migrate in from other places.

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Also, maintaining dry wide aisles will sell out their opportunities for spreading.

And growing healthy, vigorous plants will sell out pests' effectiveness more than anything else. This is one of the great benefits of The Mittleider Method, since plants are rarely in the ground long sufficient for pest populations to become a serious problem.

In order to learn the varied types of bugs, and be able to distinguish which are harmful and how to assault them, I propose you study episode 20 in The Mittleider Gardening procedure or Lecture #22 in the Video Lecture Series, for definite information.

Also, there is good information available on the internet. Two articles I particularly like are one by the University of Florida at http://ipm.ifas.ufl.edu, and one by Oklahoma State U at http://osufacts.okstate.edu/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-2786/Hla-6434web.pdf

Diseases - arresting and Control

Food For Everyone, a college-level textbook by Dr. Jacob R. Mittleider, has leading chapters on both pest and disease control. For the serious grower this book is very recommended.

As with controlling pests in the garden, we propose that your first line of defense against disease is the use of some leading preventive "cultural practices" that include:

1) Maintaining a totally weed-free garden with wide, dry aisles,

2) Pruning leaves off the ground,

3) Watering only at the soil level (never sprinkle) and only in the actual root area,

4) Growing seedlings in a protected environment and transplanting stocky, wholesome seedlings into the garden,

5) Feeding plants a complete, balanced natural mineral nutrient mix that encourages healthy, rapid growth,

6) Harvesting when crops are mature, and

7) If using row covers or "mini greenhouses," open the ends on cool days (50+), and set the covers to one side on warm days (65+), to maximize sunlight and circulation, and sell out excess humidity build-up.

By following these procedures your problems with pests and disease will commonly be rare.

You may have been doing all of these things, and only the increased humidity and warmth of the row covers could give disease an opening.

If you are experiencing Downy Mildew, a fungus disease, normal symptoms for all affected vegetable crops, which commonly happen under high-humidity conditions, contain spots appearing on leaves and a downy white or grey mold developing in these spots or on the undersides of the leaves opposite these spots.

With broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, and Brussels sprouts, dark spots may invent on the heads as well as the leaves. Black streaks may be visible on stems and a white fuzzy increase may develop. Seedlings are especially affected.

The best solutions are preventative, and constitute physical controls, such as I have described above.

Also, it's leading to take off and burn all old leaves.

If you have the problem, if it is not too widespread, I propose you take off all affected plants immediately and improve the physical conditions as much as possible.

Biological operate is your last option, short of removing the whole crop.
"Wettable sulfur, sprayed on tomatoes every two weeks at a rate of 2 tablespoons per gallon will of course preclude mildew. And....it is cheap.

"One tablespoon of wettable sulfur to one gallon of water sprayed on squash leaves After you have removed all infected leaves will operate mildew on your squash.

"Preventive spraying is the best way to operate mildew and only spray in the evening when the leaves of your plants have had a chance to cool down. Spraying on hot leaves will burn them. Ditto with tomatoes.

"Cucumbers are a question and they do not like sulfur. Skim milk seems to do well on cukes.

"Keeping all leaves that do not look exquisite removed daily from your plants, tomatoes, cukes, and squash, goes a long way in preventing the spread of the mildew. Mildew, after all, is a fungus and spreads via spores that blow in the wind." Contributed by a Mittleider Gardening Group Member - Joanne "pathaj" from Southern California.

Several chemicals are sold to operate downy mildew, including Benomyl, Copper, Folpet, Lime Sulfur, Sulfur and chlorothalonil. Counsel with the store from which you accumulate any of these materials, and always, when using pesticides, read the whole label on the package and follow the directions. Because mildew will built up a resistance to fungicides over time, especially Benomyl, if the question persists you will need to think changing the materials used occasionally.

Controlling Pests and Diseases in the house Vegetable garden

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