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Letters from the Readers: Winter pest habitat

Growing For Market

I’ve been planting overwintering spinach for a few seasons, based on an article I read in GFM. The spinach performs fairly well, but I seem to notice a lot of striped cucumber beetles hanging out in there during the first few cuttings. I wonder if I’m inadvertently providing winter habitat for the SCB, which is always a tough pest for us in the summer. If anybody has any experience with this I’d be interested to hear about it. Thanks,

Matt Steiman
Wilson College
Chambersburg, PA

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