Posted on 08/21/2015 12:55:47 PM PDT by greeneyes
LOL. I agree, just like Bryl(????)Cream. People in the 1930’s knew the downside of a carb loaded diet, so it’s a shame that knowledge has been ignored and so much effort put into the low fat high carb brainwashing.
Sounds like blossom end rot maybe with your tomatoes? Did you have a lot of rain or something?
We have to fence in the garden if we get anything. We have some feral cats that keep the bunny population to a low roar though the deer are totally out of control.
I was thinking maybe alongside the walkway, but any way they others had some info you can use instead.
My eyes are a strange color, that no one knows how to describe, does have some green overtones.
The first time I took my driver’s test, the clerk doing the paper work decided they were green, so that’s what we go with. LOL
What sort of cross is that?
It’s some sort of brassica. Probably not any asparagus in the lineage. But the stems LOOK like asparagus supposedly.
And the picture looked delicious so I bought it :P
Sounds feasible to me, but I have no experience with such.
I’ll be interested to hear about it.
I have some leftover broccoli seeds. I am wondering about just sprouting them indoors, and eating the sprouts - does that work?
Where the slugs hang out at my house? Mostly under the plantings I guess. I’ve got hosta and ferns and they look their best when we’ve had a lot of rain, but that boosts the slugs - so when I see early signs of their damage I sprinkle the bait and that is good for a month, more if there’s not a lot of rain.
And when it’s really been wet, they’ll hang out in the vegetable garden at get the tomatoes - but they love that yeast best of all - why beer traps work. Personally, I’d much rather they die quietly where I can’t see them, and enrich the soil, than pour them out of a beer-y saucer.
I’m going to try something totally different for me this year. Usually I plant and then mulch around my plants. Time consuming because you have to fiddle in/around the plants.
THIS year I bought a dibber from Johnnys and another one from Parks.
For my garlic/onions/leeks I’m going to mulch (with cardboard boxes flattened laid flat on the ground overlapped 6 or 8” and covered with grass clippings and hay) about a 15’X50’ plot. Should take me 3 or 4 hours total by myself or even less if hubby can help early one morning.
Time to plant garlic/onion seedlings/leeks is roughly halloween.
I’m going to do the mulch plot this weekend so it has time to break down somewhat.
When I plant I’ll use the dibber to poke a hole in the mulch/cardboard and get a couple bags of organic topsoil to fill in/around the cloves/seedlings as I set them out. THIS way the stuff’ll already be mulched when I set it out and I’ll be done till harvest! Crossing my fingers this works out as I have envisioned :)
That I don’t know, do you know if the seeds have been treated? You might could plant them outside right now and have luck if you have some frost cloth.
sounds like a good plan
New topic: Japanese beetles, trap or not trap? I’ve always read that traps drew more JBs than they killed, but this summer, there were way more JBs than I could pick. They were up in the peach tree just as the peaches ripened, orgying in the stem basin, so I lost half the peaches.
I was at a place that had a full trap of beetles and no beetles or damage in a rose of sharon tree, so maybe the traps work after all.
Too many row feet, too many tall plantings, two gardens - no way can I pick. And I won’t use a systemic insecticide either, so it’s traps or put up with the damage.
Good Weekend, greeneyes & all!
Not much going on here (yet). Someone on a fishing forum posted about a week ago that there was going to be a weather change & sure enough, we got a ‘’cold front’’ (in name only, but a little welcome rain). Not much cooler, though. Seems a little early, but maybe not.
We are trying for a few days at the coast after Labor Day, so won’t be starting any planting before then.
mmm Cantaloupe! I’ll keep Johnny & Arrowhead in my prayers.
God Bless.
No treatment IIRC.
Had the first good rain in weeks yesterday. Garden is very happy as a result. Looking forward to a robust fall garden.
Get a bowl of water and knock or toss the JB’s into the water. They’ll drown in a few seconds. You can add a drop of dish washing liquid if you’d like. Their body structure sticks their face under water. It’s quick and easy, no nasty chemicals or stinky bag traps.
I was reading a long term weather prediction that I hope is wrong. We are supposedly entering a solar min./1000 yr cycle, IIRC.
Last time was a 30 year cold spell/cycle back in the 1800s. It is also a period of other stuff - such as increased earthquakes - The New Madrid quake of 1812 was during one of these cycles.
Don’t know how much stock to put in this.
We used traps for our Rosa Rugosa. The beetles were devouring it. It seemed to work-trapped lots of critters, and comparatively speaking, hardly any on the plant.
Worth a try, I’d say.
Buy a bottle of Tums.
Insert near your garden plants...
Good news. We had a good one Wednesday-I love it when I don’t have to water. LOL
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