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Northvale - PA

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We have a vegetable garden on our place here and the surrounding farms are now all BT corn & beans. My understanding is the crops don't taste good to the bugs that eat them, so the bugs move on. So, when we plant sweet corn & snap beans in the garden, I assume the bugs love my stuff, and I've got to spray even more. I don't like heavy pesticides on my food which is why we have a garden. What's the answer?
 
What's wrong with some holes in your greens? So what if the bugs eat half your snap beans. Plant more. Got a worm in your tomato, cut around it.

Was at a friends house years ago and we were trying to have an afternoon outdoors picnic. The flies were driving us nuts.

The host fixed up a couple of small plates and roughly 20' from where we were eating he put them on the ground.

Guess what? No more flies in your face!

HTH,
Mark
 
The BT products produce a toxin that's the same as one produced by the bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis. It causes the larvae of certain insects to die. Bugs in your garden didn't move on from the neighboring fields.

Your first decision is whether the bugs in your garden are even a problem. I generally don't worry about them and still get more vegetables than we can eat.
 
We shop Gardens Alive and only use natural products to fight the bugs. We carefully read what the product kills because we do not want to kill the good bugs. We also plant certain flowers and such to draw in the good bugs which eat the bad bugs. Definately more work than spraying chemicals but like you say, avoiding chemicals is one of the reasons we garden.
 
I plant about 3x's what we can use. If I have a bad season or too many bugs we still have enough for our use. If I have a good season we give lots away.
 
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