Posted on 01/24/2008 10:53:49 AM PST by Gabz
Howdy folks!!!
I originally planned to wait until tomorrow (Friday) to get this going, but it is such a damp, dreary, plain old yucky day here on Virginia's Eastern Shore I decided to do it now --dreaming of spring, so to speak!
One of the major topics that seemed to arise last week dealt with "zones" and how even people living in the same "zone" will have different growing conditions based upon location. Also because we are all so spread out the different zones do matter when it comes to planting times and plants.
GardenGirl and Diana in Wisconsin are among our resident experts, but I am sure they are not the only ones and so we would all like to hear from others both amateur and professional, food growers and flower gardeners, folks that deal with trees and shrubs, I hope you get the idea!
Exchanging ideas and getting help on garden problems weere among the reasons for starting this thread, and I would like to expand on that and ask you all to help me come up with ideas of specific topics we can delve into.
Let's have fun --- and wish for spring!!!!!!
Birds is the answer...
Oh man...I was born in Amarillo ‘54...have seen BIG GREEN WORM...become JustadumbwormterminatorBlonde?
WORM TERMINATOR
http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/insect-mite/mevinphos-propargite/nicotine/insect-prof-nicotine.html
Maybe you could get some chickens & they could eat the nasty things? EWww I wouldn’t touch it unless I had gloves on. Sassy likes bugs so I get her to remove them & she tends to leave them under her magnifying glass where they die. Or puts them in her bug box where they die. I just have to watch where she leaves her stuff.
Chickens? With all the coyotes up here? LOL!
I swear. What I posted is how I kill the buggars. No muss, no fuss and no “Cruelty to worms”.
Put the chickens into a coop at night or the garage & get a rooster. The neighbors will love you lol. Just think you will have free eggs. Or get a peacock, they are great at letting you know who is around.
Are you serious? I never knew that. This is going to be a great weekly thing if I learn stuff like this!
Robins eat everything that moves....
Yes they do & I can’t wait for the robins to come back.
It’s cold here in Colorado Springs.
Hey Gabz........can ya add me too yer ping list “please”..!
Thanks , great idea to have these threads for gardeners.
Stay safe
Hope you saved your sales receipt.
sorry
Must be some other kind of millet. Nothing around here eats it, and it just lays on the ground because they’ve scratched it out. Then it grows.
Thanks! Right now rode hard and put away wet is starting to sound good! This stuff is kicking my butt.
I don’t take many sick days because sick leave around here consists of—if you get sick, you leave. Am going to try and go in today—I miss my compadres! Don’t think I’m going to stay all day.
If it’s the same as the tomato mosaic virus, I’m sorry, but no. Sometimes prolonged cold will help, so that pretty much leaves us out.
Had one customer tell me he sprayed his garden with clorox. About a month + - before he was ready to plant, he went out and made up his rows. Sprayed the rows with a half and half mixture. On his tomato row he went ahead and made up his hills—sprayed the hills really good. Said it made a big difference and clorox is cheap.
Tomato horn worm eggs are laid by a hummingbird moth. THW get on tobbacco too, and then they’re called tobbacco horn worms. The hummngbird moth is really cool. Looks and moves just like a baby hummingbird.
If you ever fins a horn worm with little rice looking grains all over it, leave it alone, or take it off and put it in the edge of the woods or something. The rice grain thingys are a parasitic wasp that feeds on hornworms. The details are pretty gruesome, so I’ll leave that to your imagination!
Here is a link Willis Orchard Link
We are getting soaked here again. EUREKA RADAR
Wowsers! You are getting drenched!
We’re getting a little bit here this am, but mostly just spitting.
Trade you weeds! We’ve got one called Florida Betony. Has roots that look like-white-rootbeer barrel candy. It’s a member of the mint family. As far as I know nothing will kill it. Rabbits eat it but there arent enough rabbits in the world to make a dent.
We’ve had so much stuff blow in with the last few hurricanes. It’s just unreal. A lot of that stuff comes in mulch as well.
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