The August 6th edition of "Science" has an article about a new idea in pest control for farmers. Basically, it says how we landscape around plants impacts pest populations. This has been a very common topic in gardening books and part of discussions about companion planting. What i find interesting is that agriculture has borrowed the idea, proved it works, and it then becomes news. The fact that thousands of gardeners knew this for hundreds of years is not mentioned. Anyway, what the research discovered was that keeping a margin of wild plants around fields of rape fields reduced damage by Meligethes aeneus (rape pollen beetle)_. ---------- Jeff Owens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Zone 7, http://www.teleport.com/~kowens Underground house, solar energy, reduced consumption, no TV
