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Originally Posted by decherdt
If / when you plant rye, it needs to be a grain producing cereal rye. The Noble Foundation developed a variety "Elbon" for Southern climates recommended by Texas A&M. Ryegrass does not trap the 'todes like Elbon does.
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If you plant the proper French Marigolds you have to then till them under which takes that planting area out of production for a whole year.
Same with Elbon,which hasn't worked well for everyone.
And don't forget crushed up shrimp shells,which have also been tried as well
And solarization as well.
There are southern RKN's and northern ones ,same genus,different species,which have seldom been confirmed since they don't overwinter.
Ah yes,those special marigolds called Nemagon, or something like that.
Then there was some wonderful work done in FL about nematode breaking strains,yes strains,don't know if still true,since the RKN's have specific attachment sites on the roots.
There has to be several hundreds of threads here at Tville on all of this just for using the search feature.. And I almost forgot that they prefer sandy soils and spread from the water shell on a sand grain to the next one and that's how they build up large populations.
The solution to that was to amend that sandy soil with non sandy soil to separate the grains so the RKN's couldn't build up large populations.
Carolyn