Flea beetle control?
Hi Teacher_Mike,
By summer turnips I mean the ones like Purple Top, ect. Just not the old Swedish Turnips or Rutabags. Found out the flea beetle control quite accidently, because we like summer turnips for stews and soups, so we planted them next to our chard and beets. Needless to say we didn't get any turnips that year. The patch looked like some one took a shot gun full of bird shot to it, but the chard and and beets did very well with very little infestation. They were all planted in sections of a 3'X30' raised bed. Since then we just scatter a few turnips through the garden and don't worry about flea beetles and they also seem to help keep the leaf miners down to tolerable levels also.
Happy gardening 2006
Val
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