Posted on 05/01/2025 6:15:12 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Nice kitchen! Nice Milk pitcher with flowers!
I like Culvers! They have good burgers and ice cream.
I have a real problem with cucumber beetles and borers so have not had a lot of success growing zucchini here in Kansas.
Perhaps Its just as well considering it is possible to have zucchini poisoning! (Rare, but still!)
Beautiful picture!
If I had the right attractant... Most of our chickens will eat stinkbugs. Apparently they swallow the stinkbugs so fast the stinkbugs don’t get their chemical weaponry deployed in time...
You can spray squash nymphs (stink bugs) with a mixture of high detergent dish soap (dawn) and water and it will kill them. Plugs up the breathing holes and they just slow down and stop moving.
You might need to research the amount. I think its 1/2 cup detergent in 1 gallon of water and apply with a hand sprayer. If you are using the vertical growing method it will be easier to spray them. (Good hunting!)
This has been a very early mild spring. Contender beans are up and flowering! I have a slow grow patch in my bed and think I have a problem with Symphylans that came in on ... I think...with some mail order rhubarb that never did very well.
Bean beetles, do not know if mexican or colorado or just pill and sow bugs eating the leaves. I have sprayed 2x with Spinosad and Pyrethins and they are growing. I interplanted lettuce in the Garlic bed and they have been doing well. (No pests!) Leeks have all been harvested except for 4 seed leeks; new leeks planted. Lots of good Japanese Salad Turnips. Beets are just marking time. Fertilized with Phosphate and Potassium based fertilizer today. (Fish bone meal and Seabird guano.) Good night! Lightening in the distance, time to shut down the computer!
I sent her a link and told her to wait some and see what happened.
NEVER heard of it.
Thank you.
Thanks.
Dawn in water is a GREAT insecticide.
I have a bucket of it I dump any jumping worms I find in it. And a separate smaller one for the asparagus beetles.
I’m looking for “riding goggles” or something similar, to keep pollen out of my eyes while mowing.
These look pretty good (nice thick foam cushioning) and they have “filter foam” over the air vents, but, the filter foam (see vid at link) looks like it is way too porous to block pollen.
(See vid timestamp -0.21.)
I “could” possibly modify these, or get even cheaper goggles with ventilation slots that ware not screened at all, and modify those.
The real cheapo’s that cost typically $4 ea. or less generally run too big on my (average male?) head and don’t seal at all in the temple areas.
Maybe someone uses something they can recommend?
Thanks!
My daughter is the queen of “unique” names for pets.
The old dog who adopted us for a couple years (before his joints just totally failed) got named “Lewis”. My daughter doesn’t know “why”, it just seemed to fit (and it oddly did). But, the stray cat we nursed back to health (and paid a hefty vet bill too!) she named “Pickleman”. God only knows why.
I’d love to have a slightly younger “Lewis”. He was some sort of mix with a German Shepherd — looked fierce, but was very gentle and an excellent guard for our chickens without attempting to herd them, and he was big enough to ward off almost any predator around here except an even larger dog.
“So when do dahlia seedlings take off & start growing?”
Dahlia DO take some time from seed. I have a full FLAT of them, and they are still about 3” tall, but they should start really growing and filling out, now. When they got their second set of adult leaves, I started giving them a light solution of Miracle Grow when I water them.
Here’s what our ‘crush’ at Floret Farms has to say about growing Dahlia from seed. I’m going to keep doing this. I am totally in LOVE with Dahlia now. I finally ‘get it,’ LOL!
There’s a good picture, about 1/2 way down that shows the size of the seedlings when Floret plants them out. Mine have a ways to go, yet. I think I’ll move them to the ‘coolest’ part of the greenhouse, or start putting them out of the greenhouse each day and then in again at night. Glad I read this!
https://www.floretflowers.com/how-to-grow-dahlias-from-seed/
I also did not know this:
“To increase the overall number of flowers and encourage long, strong stems, you’ll want to pinch them. Once plants are 8 to 12 in (20 to 30 cm) tall, use sharp pruners to snip off the top 3 to 4 in (7 to 10 cm), just above a set of leaves. This causes the plant to send up multiple stems below the cut.”
*HEAVEN*
The kitchen is the only thing I don’t like about our house. For the size of the house, it’s WAY too small. I call it a ‘One Butt Kitchen’ because, seriously, you can’t have two people in there at a time, either doing dishes or cooking.
There is a long built in counter with tall stools for sitting, taking up most of the floor space, but it has amazing cabinetry (Merilat) and TONS of storage, so there’s that. Also, the Laundry room/Pantry is right off of it, so that’s very convenient to have that on the first floor and not in the basement.
I am VERY glad that Beau decided against keeping the wood burning stove for heating and cooking when he remodeled this place 35 years ago! ;)
While I potted up the one Rosemary I rooted, I also broke down and bought 2 more Rosemary plants last week. I can never have enough of the stuff. :)
That is an excellent sentiment about the kids! :)
Do you know what variety of Hydrangea they are? Some bloom on old wood, some on new and some on old and new wood, so pruning them properly depends upon the variety.
You’re in the NE, right? Seems kind of early for summer bloomers to even be awake, yet.
Martha Stewart Says:
https://www.marthastewart.com/1538474/how-prune-hydrangeas
That is a great reminder to HYDRATE while gardening!
I issued to make a knock-off version of Gatorade for Beau when he was working construction on hot summer days.
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