Posted on 06/25/2010 5:13:58 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Hey Tube, what does NASCAR drug problems have to do with Bees? :) ?
Japanese beetles are eating my corn, and Something is eating my peppers and tomatoes.
Thanks. I usually have wonderful plants, but not too many tomatoes :-)
Just saw your garden pictures....
I HATE YOU
(in an admiring garden way. LOL)
:)
Something is eating my peppers and tomatoes.
Today I’m going to buy three cool-mist humidifiers from Goodwill, pour some pyrethrin I have in them and see if that kills off the mosquitoes - kinda like a poor-mans Mosquito Magnet. Should cost about 10 bucks, but I have no choice, I think I’m getting OFF sickness I have to spray so much. plus the OFF is stripping off the sealants of whatever I sit on, and that can’t be good.
Cheers for late planters!
Thanks, daisyjane69!
Four o’clock flowers are supposed to be good for getting rid of japanese beetles, I’m experimenting with them this year. Haven’t seen any beetles yet, but I’m not sure if it’s the flowers or the weather.
Four o’clocks are highly toxic, but for some reason JBs can’t resist the taste, so they eat themselves to death.
Interesting. The websites say it seeds and will take over everything, though.
If the 4 o’clocks are the same ones my grandmother grew, they do re-seed, but they don’t take over. They like shade, so they won’t grow in the sun. She had them along the north side of her house, and they stayed confined to the bed — peacefully co-existing with with Vinca Major. They came back year, after year, without much attention. This was in the Central Valley of CA — about Zone 8, if I remember. This was in a narrow side yard in fairly deep shade.
What’s your USDA zone? Do you grow those figs in barrels? If you have the time, please tell a little more about how you manage them.
Cooking potato tops? I understood that potato tops are NOT to be eaten: they’re loaded with solanine and oxalic acid, which causes cramps, nausea, and even, death. I’ve heard they don’t taste very good anyway (they are very bitter.)
Can you enlighten me?
Mrs Don-O What is a nice girl like you doing on a thread like this???
My remark about the tops was my frustration with my potatoes apparently going to foliage this year because of our late rains...
I remember seeing your pic of the beauteous plenteous apple trees. I was green (and wormy) with envy. Such a wonderful orchard!!
I have a garden I talk about so much, people might think it's acres; but really it's a little-bitty thing: a patch here and patch there, wherever I have a sunny spot. But it given me an enormous amount of pleasure. When my pole beans climb up the trellises, I feel as clever as if I had climbed up there myself. And when my squashes start fruiting I am as proud as a preggo!
That’s it. Oh dear, now I’m sad: I thought it was yours... :o/
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Be vewy ,vewy careful what you ask for.
I have yellow squash and also some winter acorn squash plants, and I think I planted them too close together because they will soon be in danger of crowding each other out.
So please tell me about the squash on trellises. Do you have to tie them with strips of cloth or some such thing, or do they twine up on their own like pole beans?
I'm kind of afraid of the branches snapping off or being injured if I try to manipulate them too much. Your advice?
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