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Greens, protected!

12 Oct 201818 May 2016 by Mike (tfb)
Brassica greens under row cover

Floating row cover, weighed down and made semi-transparent by water, is all that stands between fine young brassica greens and the scourge of the flea beetle. The cover is placed right after seeding, weighed down by rocks every 12.5′ feet, … Read the rest

Categories Fieldwork, Pests & Disease, Seed starting, Tools, Veggies Tags brassicas, flea beetle, frost protection, greens, row cover Leave a comment

In the greenhouse: bok choi vs flea beetle

4 Dec 202129 Apr 2016 by Mike (tfb)
Bok choi vs flea beetle

Everyone loves the greenhouse! The warmth, the wind break…crops, weeds, all plants love it in here. Now it seems flea beetles have acquired the taste as well. For whatever reason, the FBs usually stayed out of the (much smaller) little … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!), Greenhouse, Pests & Disease, Veggies Tags bok choi, flea beetle 3 Comments

Weed ID-ing in the Digital Age

6 Apr 20165 Apr 2016 by Mike (tfb)
Weed ID app photo

Wormwood of some sort, this weed from the greenhouse, according to our best guess from a selection of possibilities offered up by the smart smartphone plant identification app I’ve been playing with/trying out. There are several such apps for Android: … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!), Fieldwork, Pests & Disease, Tools Tags apps, mystery, novelty, plant identification, weeds Leave a comment

CPBs

13 Mar 20164 Aug 2012 by Mike (tfb)

Pre-squish: Brand new Colorado potato beetle, larva about the size of a match head, on eggplant. Around the leaf edge, older damage done by bigger CPBs. Recently, for whatever reason, they’ve been around but not in numbers enough to be … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!), Fieldwork, Pests & Disease, Veggies, Weather Tags Colorado potato beetle, eggplant, insects 1 Comment

Praying mantis visit

20 Nov 201329 Jul 2012 by Mike (tfb)
Praying mantis

It came with the greens. A praying mantis perched on the edge of a lettuce mix harvest basket and took the ride in. Kool kat, with a wraparound look. Friendly, too, if insects can be, calm at least, let it … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!), Pests & Disease Tags insects, Summer 3 Comments
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