The biggest bug (Arthropleura Millipede) on earth ever known to exist predates
the dinosaurs and weighed 100 lbs
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Posted on 06/25/2022 7:06:47 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Would that included the small onion bulbs I planted hoping to get large bulbed green onions?
Yes. Onions like that 5-10-10, too. :) Carrots, potatoes, kohlrabi, leeks, any veggie that grows underground.
If you’re just growing those onions for the GREENS, then anything goes. If you want onion bulbs, use the 5-10-10.
I was just freaking out trying to get a grasshopper out of my house!
I’m gonna need a bigger fly swatter for that Millipede!!
They are in full sun, and it never gets below 50* at night.
Taking vacation this weekend. Just chilling off a river in SE Tennessee. We were tubing for a few hours, and a gigantic bug fell out of a tree and landed right on me! Scary looking bug, too! I have no idea what kind of bug he was.
Our late, great, self-reliance guru JRandomFreeper had similar soil. He was able to improve it by adding biochar, which he made by soaking homemade charcoal in a bucket with rabbit poop and an aerator.
Some experimenters on Permies.com have reported similar results with biochar. It can absorb its own volume in water, but doesn’t release that water easily. One person even tried burning soaked char in a fire, and it took hours for it to dry enough to burn, and burn slowly at that. But, plants are able to tap into that water easily through mycorrhizae (beneficial fungi that are symbiotic with plants).
There is even one person on Permies who is experimenting to see if biochar can retain water well enough to combat desertification.
As I recall, when dealing with soil that drains too well, large chunks of biochar, roughly the size of a thumbnail, worked better than finely-ground or powdered. Too small and the char gets drained away with the water. Too large and the pieces cause the same problem as rocks of that size.
I hope that helps!
Cut down 4 small trees and painted the little stump with glyphosate.
2 next to foundation & 2 near neighbors wires
I think I have 138 trees remaining.
One large sugar maple look heat stricken
Thank you Diana........
You’re welcome. I’m just happy to still be able to use my education. Ask me anything; I’m here to help! :)
Did I misunderstand? Are these seedlings already in the ground?
Melons like it HOT and they like a lot of water, no competition from weeds and they like the soil to be as warm as possible, too. But if they’re not even leafed out yet, then that’s another issue.
Pollard? Got any links to growing Melons to share with Don W? Thanks!
Any bug with an exoskeleton makes me run screaming for the hills!
Had to do battle with some Freak of Nature Grasshopper/Cricket Hybrid today. I’m emotionally spent! I’m pretty sure I killed it, but then I threw it in the trash instead of outside, so I’ll be barring the bedroom door tonight so it doesn’t crawl up three flights of stairs (with a broken leg) and kill me in my sleep!
Thank goodness I have enough of my whits about me still to whip up a Martini, LOL!
Looks like a cantaloupe. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Galia+melon&iax=images&ia=images&iai=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.onlyfoods.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F05%2FGalia-Melon.jpg
Don’t have much of anything on melons.
https://morningchores.com/growing-cantaloupe/
https://www.almanac.com/plant/cantaloupes
https://extension.uga.edu/publications/detail.html?number=B1179
Martinis help these situations immensely. So do “fun rum drinks” which I’m having right now. ;^)
Omg, another giant bug! This one is about 4” long! Look up the eastern Dobsonfly (Corydalus cornutus).
They are outdoors, in 5 gallon pail. My tomatoes, cucumbers, even kohlrabi are absolutely loving it, but the Galia are... seeming less than enthusiastic.
Yay!
“Alcohol. The reason FOR and the solution TO all of Life’s problems.” ~ Homer Simpson
See post #55 for some guidance/links from Pollard.
This Yankee Girl knows little about melons. ;)
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