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Blue Sky



Joined: 30 Jan 2005
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 04, 10 10:46 am    Post subject: Doryphores! (Colorado beetle) Reply with quote
    

Just found first one of the season.

Best get out there with your jamjars if you're on the continent.


T.G



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 04, 10 12:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

ooo when i was a girl i recall seeing posters in Norfolk stating if seen ring this number ..... whatever the number was back then ... likewanted posters for bandits (except bandits posters never had a phone number ) ... i watch a lot of cowboy movies as a girl

mousjoos



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 04, 10 4:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

we had them posters in Essex when I were a lad

Blue Sky



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 04, 10 4:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

You will have the f3ccing real thing there in SWF soon if you are growing spuds ....

Bulgarianlily



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 04, 10 5:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

jamjars? I just use two rocks, what do you do with the jam jars?

sean
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 04, 10 5:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Bulgarianlily wrote:
jamjars? I just use two rocks,


Isn't that for camels?

mousjoos



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 04, 10 6:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Blue Sky wrote:
You will have the f3ccing real thing there in SWF soon if you are growing spuds ....


so far, we've been lucky... but I know folks here who haven't

Blue Sky



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 29, 10 6:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Thousands of them here now. We have always been pretty lucky but this year despite picking off the adults and 'jamjaring' them we now have thousands of the little red larvae. Not sure what to do really. The neighbours reckon spray but we don't normally do that. It's probably too late in any case as most of the leaves are already perforated on most plants. I can suffer one year without spuds but if this is the start of an ongoing problem we may be stuffed as the spuds are our staple.

Is it just a bad year due to the long hot dry spell?

(question aimed at continental growers, for obvious reasons)

ksia



Joined: 17 May 2006
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 29, 10 6:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

It is the weather for 'em at the moment. I squished 3 pre-adults (term?) yesterday. We've squished in the past when we've had 'em. Daily inspections, under all leafs. Getting the eggs is the most important.

Blue Sky



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PostPosted: Tue Jun 29, 10 7:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

ksia wrote:
Daily inspections, under all leafs. Getting the eggs is the most important.


Yeah, I can see that but daily inspections is alot of work when you grow as many spuds as we do. I wouldn't mind buying them from the shop to tide us over if they weren't so inferior. Home-grown spuds are so much better than clean-polyester-net-clad tubers from the supermarket.

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