Thanks Granny! I am having an easy day. Slept late—well, late for me—8:00—LOL
Ate dinner at my in laws and then watched a movie. I watch very little screen. This one was Called The Education of LIttle Tree. It came highly recommended and was very good. Definitely a tearjerker! It’a about a depression era boy growing up with his Cherokee grandparents.
Y’all grow maters inside? How do you keep the whiteflies and such off them? We’ve overwintered them in the greenhouse before, but they get loads of bugs. The maters are ok—better than store cardboard, but not as good as outside fresh.
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Hi gardengirl, I have my tomatoes in a large butterfly pavillion. I also keep some praying mantis.
We go out every December, cut down our own Christmas tree. We also manage to find one with a mantis egg sack. We put the egg sack in the pavillion. The mantids hatch months early and will feed off of any bugs on the plants. Then, by early summer, the mantids are big enough to be released. The plants can also go outside in the pots they are in.
If there aren’t enough bugs on the plants to feed the mantids, they only need a few containers of flightless fruit flies that are available from reptilian stores.
How do you keep the whiteflies and such off them? <<<
LOL, I shook mine each day, for pollination , and that took care of the problem, If you had a bunch of them, shake the vine an and vaccaum the air as they rise up.
For bugs, you could use a shop vaccaum, one that has a water proof tank, son the bugs can drown and quickly.
White flies here leave, if the banana peel is cleared out and the peels aren’t in the indoor compost.
Out in the greenhouse a good spray of water and yes, I have been known to vaccaum there too.
Yes you can grow them nicely indoors, see Calpernia’s chart for ideas, a sunny corner and a few pots of vegs and your life is better for the growth and the food variety.
My spell checker says I can’t spell this morning.