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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Diana! The weekend! Enjoy your Berry Good Day! May S.O. have a safe and enjoyable trip to our North Coast neighbor!

You reminded me that I need to take a trip to the Local U-Pick and get 5 or 6 pounds of blueberries. I have Aronia berries, good-4-You-2 but they are NOT the same!

June is a Good Dairy month because everyone (everyone bovine) has been out and eating from Green Pasture and the milk tastes better than Winter Milk that you get with Stored Hay!!

153 posted on 06/06/2026 9:46:27 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission
Two different soil insects that look similar!

Symphylans.... white color like termites and will damage you farm and garden plants. (They do move quickly!)

Symphylans

Termites. They will not damage your garden, but they might damage your raised bed wood and later, your house and outbuildings!

https://www.aces.edu/blog/topics/lawn-garden/termite-treatment-in-organic-gardens/

If you practice "Hugel Culture" or use raised bed walls of wood and are somewhere in the south you will have termites! In one section of my garden I used cardboard as mulch. When I Pulled it up I found clusters of termites presumably enjoying their predigested cardboard dinners! (I will probably pull up the rest of the cardboard and may only use it under my melon plants in the future.)

159 posted on 06/06/2026 10:31:24 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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