Aquaponics Digest - Sun 07/11/99
Message 1: Re: Cornell site down?
from "Jim Sealy Jr."
Message 2: Re: carnivorous nematodes and mushrooms
from Adriana Gutierrez & Dennis LaGatta
Message 3: Re: new person needs advice
from dfranks@principia.edu (Doug Franks)
Message 4: interesting fungicides and pesticides
from "Ronald W. Brooks"
Message 5: Re: interesting fungicides and pesticides
from Adriana Gutierrez & Dennis LaGatta
Message 6: RE: interesting fungicides and pesticides
from "Ronald W. Brooks"
Message 7: Re: carnivorous nematodes and mushrooms
from "Kevin L. Reed"
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Subject: Re: Cornell site down?
From: "Jim Sealy Jr."
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 01:37:08 -0500
It must have just been temporarily down, as I found the pages
(A HANDBOOK FOR THE PRODUCTION OF CEA-GROWN HYDROPONIC LETTUCE)
just now at:
http://www.cals.cornell.edu/cals/dept/flori/lettuce/
Well worth a visit and bookmark.
Jim
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Subject: Re: carnivorous nematodes and mushrooms
From: Adriana Gutierrez & Dennis LaGatta
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 15:42:45 -0400
Kevin,
Check out the Fungi Perfecti site:
http://www.fungi.com/
>Does anyone know of a good place to purchase pre inoculated grow bags for
various mushroom varieties?
About the nematodes, Gardens Alive! has a variety of beneficial
nematodes
including one that does in grubs, cutworms, armyworms, pillbugs, etc.
Only one catch, they are pricey. 10 million treats 200 square feet and
costs $23.75. I'm not sure they have a web site. Call them at
812-537-8650.
>There was another thing ya'll may be able to help me with ... carnivorous
nematode eating nematodes.
Hope your trip is "fruitful",
Adriana
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Subject: Re: new person needs advice
From: dfranks@principia.edu (Doug Franks)
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 16:06:10 -0400 (EDT)
Tom Osher http://bagelhole.hypermart.net,
Is there more information on the system you mention? What and where in
North Carolina?
>Hi,
> I am beginning to start the work on making my home a model of
>low-tech sustainability in an urban (San Francisco) environment. What I am
>starting may be good for students to also do. Its incorporating fish farming
>with vegetable growing inside a low-cost greenhouse.
>
>We are digging a long trench about 3 feet deep 3feet wide for the fish and a
>separation for the fingerlings. A solar pump will pump the fish water to
>tubes that will soak the root balls of the plants suspended in cups held by
>vertical structures and back to the fish (oxygenated and cleaned). I hope to
>feed the fish worms from the composting toilet, which I also hope to build
>soon. Right now, I'm thinking catfish.
>
>I have no experience doing this, though I have talked to Anna Edey who has
>seen this in N. Carolina and has experience with greenhouses (see book
>Solviva), and others. Wish me luck and feel free to send me any advise you
>may have, thanks.
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> Tom Osher
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> http://bagelhole.hypermart.net
Douglas Franks
1000 Forty Foot Rd
Lansdale, PA 19446
dfranks@principia.edu
215 362 2943 fax
215 721 4324 hm
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Subject: interesting fungicides and pesticides
From: "Ronald W. Brooks"
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 17:44:21 -0400
I have been going through some back issues of The Growing Edge and came
across some research on fungicides and pesticides.
5 teaspoons of baking soda to 1 gallon of water is an effective fungicide
that works especially well on Black Spot and Powdery Mildew
and Kelp and Seaweed sprays work well as pesticides against spider mites ,
aphids , white flies , and thrips. Also they quoted a study done in the 60's
that the above also increases resistance to stress and frost.
Ron
The One Who Walks Two Paths
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Subject: Re: interesting fungicides and pesticides
From: Adriana Gutierrez & Dennis LaGatta
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 18:28:06 -0400
Nice research Ron,
The kelp and seaweed will also fertilize the plants. Was there any
indication of dilution rates? I'm still having mixed results with a
rotation of soaps, pyrethrin and neem. Coverage is still a problem
under the leaves of the tatsoi so I am about to try setting up a tunnel
over the bed and connecting my Atomist to it for a few minutes to
completely fill it with fog.
Adriana
> and Kelp and Seaweed sprays work well as pesticides against spider mites ,
> aphids , white flies , and thrips. Also they quoted a study done in the 60's
> that the above also increases resistance to stress and frost.
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Subject: RE: interesting fungicides and pesticides
From: "Ronald W. Brooks"
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 19:24:58 -0400
Adriana
the article states 1 tablespoon per gallon 4 times a week if pests are
noted. twice a week when under control. The article mentions that it kills
the eggs of sucking insects.
Ron
The One Who Walks Two Paths
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Subject: Re: carnivorous nematodes and mushrooms
From: "Kevin L. Reed"
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 01:47:25 +0200
Adriana,
Very extensive mushroom site! They have more than everything
I needed thanks!
Adriana Gutierrez & Dennis LaGatta wrote:
> Kevin,
> Check out the Fungi Perfecti site:
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> http://www.fungi.com/
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> >Does anyone know of a good place to purchase pre inoculated grow bags for
various mushroom varieties?
>
S&S Aqua Farm, 8386 County Road 8820, West Plains, MO 65775 417-256-5124
Web page http://www.townsqr.com/snsaqua/
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