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Nancy Young[_2_] Nancy Young[_2_] is offline
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Default OT kinda, My new Aero Garden

Janet Bostwick wrote:
> flitterbit wrote:


>> I have the same problem with chard as Janet does, and it only started
>> up a few years ago. It's not slugs as far as I'm aware; these aren't
>> slime trails, and there's no evidence of slugs anywhere else in my
>> vegetable garden, which is in a series of 12-inch-tall Trex-framed
>> raised beds, and I rotate my crops on a 4-year cycle so there
>> shouldn't be any pest buildup in the soil.
>>
>> Rather, the marks look like the result of larvae burrowing through
>> the leaves, but I've yet to see *any* insect of any kind anywhere
>> around my chard, so have no idea what pest I might be dealing with.

>
> Agreed, that's exactly what I am talking about -- a kind of burrowing
> through the leaves.


Sounds like this:

http://goldengategarden.typepad.com/...ng_a_swis.html

or

http://preview.tinyurl.com/84h4v8

nancy