Posted on 06/05/2008 10:10:48 AM PDT by Gabz
If I had read your article about those nasty green horn worms last year ... I would have known what was happening to my tomato plants! I know what to look for now ... they were very destructive and they like the new growth leaves which really hurts the plant!
If you ever see little small dark green - kind of squarish looking - droppings on your plants or on the ground you got a Horn worm eating up higher! The first one I found was almost as big as my little finger and just as green as the stem he was perched on!
We always caught them as kids—ran around the yard in the dark carrying a glass mason jar. CPS would have had a field day with my parents! We don’t have many lightning bugs, but I haven’t lost my touch!
Yuck! Cicadas! I remember when they did one of their 20 year hatches. They ate everything—clothes off the line, screens—and noisy! My gosh.
Amazing how something that huge can blend! Talk about camoflage!
Wind and rain has been doing the samething to my pepper plants. I finally staked them a couple of days ago. Do you have a recipe for the hot pepper vinegar?
My guys stuff a jar—olive oil jars work well, or anything with a plastic removeable inner cap, pours better—with hot peppers and pour vinegar over them until the jar is full. Use cider vinegar, not white! LOL
They eat it on collards, fish, #2 son puts it on just about everything.
Oh, and worm poop? It’s called “frass”.
Something you can add to your list of things you never wanted to know!
Greens with out hot pepper vinegar ... no way, gotta have it.
What kind of peppers do you use?
It snowed this AM.
Ahhhhh... New Mexico.
My guys prefer cayenne—they fit in the bottles better, and this year they’re trying Super Chili. I think the sc’s are going to be too hot for what they want. Smirk.
We planted some big chili’s. Sposed to be mildly hot for stuffing and grilling. We’ll see.
You can freeze hot peppers, but they tend to contaminate everything in your freezer. :)
Well I am not getting frassed on this year!
Snow?! That’s a four letter word! It’s 92 here in the shade. Sigh. Why can’t it just stay 75 year round? LOL
Yep, snow. It didn’t stick due to the 50 mph wind, though.
Too funny!
I think they’re worse than they used to be—no one in the county grows tobacco anymore, and the poor wee things have to have something to eat!
Yikes! We had wind like that Sun nite, but just hail—no snow!
We used to do the same thing with horseflies! My dad would find a particularly big one and bring it home in his handkerchief. My neighbors thought we were nuts.
We are just beginning to get the lightning bugs. I am not so bold a grandma as to let them go in the house.... I will however let them live in a jar and be a "night light".
Ticks! (spit) Demonic little insects... curses upon them. We have managed to get them off us without any digging in yet... except for Mr G. They seem to be plentiful this year. We have also had to de-flea our little dog for the first time ever. She is still scratching and not happy.
As to gardening.... I am waiting for my neighbor's tomatoes to come in so I can have some. 8-)
Oh and I have 7 Sugar Baby watermelons now. Will the plant just keep on producing all summer? One is so large my wife wanted me to pick it. I is not ready yet. The one she thought I should pick is just a little smaller than a soccer ball the others are between softball size or a little larger! They grow over night!
YIKES!!!!
We finally broke the spell of the cold warnings last week. It's been upper 70s/low 80s now for more than a week and temps are supposed to be in the 90s over the weekend.
Green usually.
Watermelons produce for awhile and then they fizzle. Heat gets them, I guess. Sounds like you’ll definitely have one for the Fourth! The stems curl up like a pig tail when they’re ready.
I had never heard of tomato hornworms before I found one on my tomato plants one year.
I about set some kind of Olympic standing long jump record.
I know the feeling. We continue to have a lot of wet, though even though the temps have finally gone up!
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