The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #109960 Message #2502900
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
27-Nov-08 - 10:20 AM
Thread Name: BS: Gardeners & Soil and Climate Science
Subject: RE: BS: Gardeners & Soil and Climate Science
I have discovered a couple of "trap crops" by accident in the past--what do you plant for that use and what are you trapping? Every year I seem to have a new group of pests to learn about, but it would be nice to lure some of them away from the place they'll do the most damage. This year the tobacco horn worm really came in big, but then, they're the youthful phase of the beneficial sphinx moth. I have to decide how to deal with the young'uns if I want to benefit from the adults. They go for all of those--tomatoes, peppers, eggplant (but particularly tomatoes and peppers).