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Flea beetles can severely damage newly set plants. Protect plants with a currently recommended pesticide as soon as these small shiny black hopping insects are noted. Floating row covers such as Reemay will prevent flea beetles from damaging plants.
• Spinach leaf miners tunnel between the surfaces of the leaves of beets, spinach, swiss chard, and lettuce and leave white trails etched in the leaves. The tiny white grubs hatch from white eggs which were laid on tlje underside of the leaf by a small fly. You may prevent the fly from laying eggs on your plants by keeping them covered with a cheesecloth tent or spun polyester row cover.
• Toads eat cutworms and other insect pests. Give them a home in the garden by placing inverted clay
flower pots in-shady spots. Chip out a piece of the pot rim to give the toads an entrance to their home.
• Don’t spray pesticides on a windy day. Not only is pesticide wasted, it may endanger other crops or the applicator.
• Thirty-five of the 39 snakes found in Virginia are beneficial to the farmer and gardener. They eat insects and rodents. Of particular value is the large black rat snake, which consumes large numbers of mice, rats, and other small mammals.
• Introduce children to gardening. Give them a small plot of their own with full sun, good soil and drainage. Geraniums and begonias from pots are easy for little hands to handle and marigolds, radishes and favorite vegetables can be added.
1988 Virginia beef
cookoff set
You could be the new Virginia Beef Cookoff winner and go on to compete in the National Beef Cookoff where the grand prize is $15,000.
The state cookoff will be held May 15 in Harrisonburg, sponsored by the Virginia Cattlewomen in cooperation with the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer
Services. The first prize winner will receive $200, second prize, $100, and third prize, $50. Start planning now to enter new or favorite beef recipes in the 1988 Virginia Beef Cookoff.
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