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To: JustaDumbBlonde

You might be interested in purchasing larger rolls. Check with your local garden center and see if they can order it for you. We get some in 6’ and 12’ widths. comes about 100-150’ per roll.

My boss puts a big pot in a child’s wagon. Plants his cukes in it and throws some circled hog wire around it. This makes a great close to the house salad topper and plus it’s moveable when you have to mow.

We always lose cukes in the fall here to mildew and blight and pickle worms. I’ve tried everything. Any ideas?


50 posted on 01/24/2008 1:46:22 PM PST by gardengirl
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To: gardengirl

Also landscape materials centers such as a Sand and Gravel companies...out West its Pioneer Sand Company or try DeWitt fabric or Landmaster polyspun fabric online....


62 posted on 01/24/2008 4:17:54 PM PST by CIDKauf (No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.)
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To: gardengirl
"You might be interested in purchasing larger rolls."

Absolutely! I did check locally and the stuff was really expensive. The fabric that I used last year came from Sam's Club ... they had a 250' roll for $35.00 and it was at least twice as thick as the stuff they had at Home Depot. Recently I received a mail order catalog that has large rolls of the fabric, and the prices seemed much more reasonable than the garden center was offering.

"We always lose cukes in the fall here to mildew and blight and pickle worms. I’ve tried everything. Any ideas?"

I had some worms in my cukes 2 years ago, but I don't know what kind. This past year, I sprayed a neem oil mixture every 7-10 days and had zero insect problems. Neem oil is supposed to be a fungicide, miticide and insecticide. I was very pleased with the results and it is not nearly as toxic as other control measures. For some reason I feel that growing them vertically also helped with insect pressure.

80 posted on 01/24/2008 5:51:31 PM PST by JustaDumbBlonde
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