Tatiana - I've read with interest your posts here and elsewhere about no spraying. Just to be clear, you also don't spray something that is supposed to be entirely beneficial, such as seaweed extract?
I want to believe and I adore the concept of not spraying things that could have any toxicity at all on food my family eats. But, I (and other southern hot weather gardeners) have red spider mites that become extremely abundant in a short time period and having lost every crop to them for the first several years of gardening when the weather gets hot (100 plus daily) and then not losing crops to them after beginning to treat them with various sprays, I just don't see how to avoid spraying, unless I am willing to lose all of my tomatoes every July. Tough call for me.
Dewayne Mater
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