Posted on 06/18/2010 4:59:42 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Just stay ahead of them, and pick them off by hand, and crush them or drown them.
By “transplanted” I meant to that Big Corn Patch in the Sky...
Isn’t Ammonium Nitrate 34-0-0 and isn’t it a registered product as it is used in making bombs like McVeigh used in Oklahoma City?
I've only had to answer once about ammonia nitrate.
I bought three tons, and put it on five acres of Coastal Bermuda grass.
The FBI agent came by and asked to see it.
I said sure, follow me. I walked him over to the pasture and got him in the middle of the knee deep grass, and explained it to him.
He was satisfied.
I have 4 rows, 8 feet long.
And my husband uses a .22 on the coons. They are tough little devils, however. They often take more than one shot.
I think the reason for the .22 is a City restriction. We are in an Ag district of a city, and I don’t think he can legally fire anything stronger to dispatch varmints. Any other neighborhood, he couldn’t fire ANY firearm. But here, we can have private wells, septic systems, burn, and shoot varmints (the 4 legged kind).
Occasionally we trap a cat and we let it go. The cat is grateful. Sometimes we get possums and twice we’ve gotten a skunk — not a happy occasion.
LOLOLOL! So, now the truth comes out.
I plan to order seed next year, and give it a try, so I am very interested in your experiences with celery.
Well, actually it does help to know the identity of the pests you are fighting.
I got a spray that knocks them back.
What’s the name of the spray? I might give it a try.
I couldn’t find it either, but I bought 3 plants at the garden store. I picked them up because I thought they were cilantro at first. They were about 4 in. tall. They are really looking good now.
I’ve come to the conclusion that they will never look like that bunch of celery in the store because the produce manager pulls off all the outer stalks in the store — duh! Growing in the ground, they are much leafier and really look like a huge plant of cilantro because the leaves go all the way down. Then, look closely and see that there are stalks in there. If you pull off the outer ones, it’s a nice little bunch of celery inside.
Blanching seems to entail putting a bag over the plant, or positioning boards around the plant (about 15 “ high) so that it doesn’t get light. You do this 2-3 weeks before harvesting. The celery turns pale. I can’t imagine why anyone wants to do that? What is wrong with nice, green celery?
Well a political friend took one skunk from us while we were trying to figure out what to do with it and left it at a rival politician's front door, but you didn't hear that from me. It was many years ago. Never waste a good, dead skunk was his thought.
Another time my husband snuck up on the trap and threw a tarp over it so the skunk couldn't see. Apparently they don't spray if they can't see. Then you hook a chain to the trap -- tarp and all -- and drag it far away from the house with the tractor. Then you shoot it in the cage.
A farmer around here told us that the best thing to do is to drop the trap, skunk and all, into a pond, creek, rain barrel, or watering trough until it drowns. I don't have a good source of water for that.
Where are you located in Miss.?
When asked what I wanted for lunch, I asked for corn on the cob. I sat in the kitchen and ate 13 ears, before Dad said I had to stop and eat something else if I was still hungry.LOL.
I too am trying the sq. ft. garden thing (more or less). I have 18 plants that are only supposed to grow about 4 ft. tall, and yield 2 ears per plant. Hubby has always refused to plant corn in years past, because it takes up too much room. Thirty two ears won't last long here.
Have you visited the sq. ft. garden website? Mel says that the dwarf corn can be planted 4 per square.
It’s an organic spray — since my tomatoes are ready to pick off the vine.
It’s put out by “Safer Brand.” The spray is called, “EndALL Insect Killer.”
It works fair. It doesnt prevent the leaf-footed bugs from reappearing the next day - but i spray in the morning and they are gone for the day.
Not recently. I'm using his original book. That will be something to look into for next year.
I remember visiting my grandmother (father's side) on the ranch when I was a child. I was so impressed that when she cooked dinner (lunch) she cooked WHOLE ears of corn. My own mother always cut the cobs in 2, or 3, pieces. I thought grandma must have been RICH to serve whole cobs of corn and to let everyone have as many as we liked.
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