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milford, CT,

My question is...I just lost a plant to corn seed maggots..I have a backup I am going to transplant into the spot..is there any advice on insecticides to pre-treat the area to avoid a second problem?? Mark

5/15/2009 3:30:35 PM

Linden,PA

I just lost my 1239 Werner to those maggots! See my diary for a picture of the carnage! I was thinking about Lorsban or Admire for a treatment.

5/15/2009 10:19:19 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Merit the seedling & the patch. Merit is slow but with the advent of warm weather the CSMs should have moved on. This is the second year Mark. Did you add more manure?

5/16/2009 1:36:44 AM

Paradise Mountain, New York

This is what I did this past week. I used grub-ex spread over the planting area, then I used Bayer Advanced Tree and Shrub which has Merit in it.I watered it in deep were my new plants will be set. Corn Maggots flys are attrached to the smell of fresh manure. But they also love a garden high in organic. The trouble here is, the new farmer who bought the farm that surronds me is planting corn only here on the hill. They must of hauled at least 200 tanker loads of liquid manure here. it's smells like real country air. So i feel the fly's would lay there eggs just about any where.

5/16/2009 7:45:02 AM

Mastic Beach, New York

I got taken this year(first time)..haven't used manure in 3 years..when i was digging pits for the tomato plants came across more in the soil..O/M at 14%

5/16/2009 10:00:47 AM

milford, CT,

Tremor..No Manure added this a year..OM was at 9% ...It might be similar to what Pumpkinbrat posted...I had OM of 20% 2 years ago and there are pockest of richer soil underneath..I might have just hit one of this high organic areas...Thanks for the posts guys!!!..Mark

5/16/2009 11:08:53 AM

did either of you have a cover crop planted that you turned in? green manure also provides munchies for these critters

5/16/2009 2:11:49 PM

Mastic Beach, New York

I did this year..

5/16/2009 3:31:59 PM

Paradise Mountain, New York

I had a cover crop of winter rye I tilled in a few weeks ago. I think I'll go back to planting oats in the fall. This way, the oats will die during the winter and there won't be any Green Manure as they call it to turn under like winter rye in the spring.

5/16/2009 5:57:26 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

hmmm.....

5/16/2009 7:41:17 PM

milford, CT,

Winter Rye..tilled in in Late March..

5/16/2009 10:25:17 PM

Paradise Mountain, New York

We have snow here still in March

5/16/2009 10:54:06 PM