I had a customer at Jung’s whose chickens LOVED the Japanese Beetles. As soon as I spotted them, I’d call her and a few days a week I’d let her into the nursery yard before we opened with her bucket (with a hole cut in the cover) and she would pluck them off my nursery stock and take them home and make her chickens very happy!
You should ask if they’ll let you do it, LOL! ;)
Mom was here this week, and we went out bummin' around town when the temps were too high to work in the garden. She wanted something from Walmart for her bus trip on Monday, and of COURSE we had to check the Garden Center. They had these Proven Winners baskets marked down from $40 to $19.99. You can't even buy the basket and liner for that price. Metal! Anyhow, I passed. The next day, it was still bugging me. I mean, even if the flowers were kind of ratty, those baskets ALONE would last me the rest of my natural life. So, we went back the next day when we went out to lunch. Overnight they had marked them down further to $9.99! So I bought two! Mom and I cleaned them up, deadheaded and gave them a good dose of Bloom Booster fertilizer and put them in the greenhouse overnight. The next day, they were already looking better and they don't look too bad now and should fill in even more. SCORE! That's $80 worth of Proven Winners baskets for $19.98!
Moral of the story? Hit your Garden Centers now for some fabulous deals!
