Rabbit Season, Thrips Season, Rabbit Season....

[heirloomtomaguy]

Originally Posted by VC Scott

Take a sheet of white paper to the tomato patch. Bend over a flowering branch and tap the flowers on the white paper. If you see tiny dark speck on the white paper that start to move after a second or two, you have thrips.

Spinosad does take care of thrips. My problem using spinosad is that it seems to kill off the natural enemy of tomato russet mites. Whenever I use spinosad, I end up with a tomato russet mite invasion.

Alternate between the Spinosad and DE. It will knock everything dead in the garden. I used to feel bad i was killing beneficials but then i realized i dont need beneficials if everythings dead. After years a fighting a major uphill battle i found this combination to be by far the best.