Posted on 06/21/2013 12:40:17 PM PDT by greeneyes
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A friend of mine is saying the same thing about the Dew berries here. She says, they are small and kind of dried out.
I have a friend who uses flour, white flour to kill off squash bugs. I’d never heard of it before, and we’ve lost some squash plants to the bugs. He just sprinkles white flour on the squash, beans, tomatoes. He doesn’t really know if it does any good, but his mother told him to to it, and he doesn’t have squash bugs. I’ll try it next year.
Hmmm, I’ll have to look for that. Thank you.
Well, at least you got some fruit. I have a beautiful little mini peach tree. It has beautiful blooms, all pink and lovely, the new green leaves look so nice surrounding the sweet pink flowers. BUT NOT ONE FRUIT...and it’s 15 years old. Yes, I have a Texas wild peach tree near it..it won’t mix. Particular twit.
So sweet.
I have 2 Texas Peach trees. One bears tiny peaches, but the other is bare as a bone. We also had a late freeze this year which killed off a lot of the buds.
Here is the info. ORGANIC GARDEN FABRIC, label is green with white lettering. Greenscapes makes it. 3ft.x 25ft. roll, single season. It is a mid-brown paper “fabric”.
I want to thank whoever it was that posted here on the garden thread a suggestion to use traps for our pesky gophers. I bought some online and we trapped four of them just this morning. They work exquisitely. This thread is awesome. I’d never have known what to do and my husband was apprehensive that they’d work, but they do. The trick is not to use them on old gopher holes, only the new ones that have just been dug. We get them every time.
Thank you - thank you - thank you!
Update: Mrs, RD and I packed up all of our belongings into a 26 ft. Penske rental truck on Tuesday, with a lot of help from our neighbor’s two teenage boys, 17 and 15. We offered them each $100 cash if they would help. They were energetic, strong and eager to work. They worked 7 hrs. with an hour off for lunch. The truck was packed from front to back - the little over flow we had to fit into my wife’s car along with two puppies in the front passenger seat.
After doing a final cleaning of the house that night and some touch up the next morning we headed to Mississippi the next morning at 8:30 am and arrived safely at our home at 4 pm. 365 miles with a few stops for rest breaks for us and the pups. Were were wiped out tired.
My wife and I unloaded the truck today. I am ashamed to say that she did the bulk of the work, my hip problem limits me quite a bit. We started in the cool morning, 75 degrees, and ended in the heat of 95+. Mrs. RD is now passed out tired on the couch sleeping. She is a strong determined woman and she vowed to have that truck clear by the end of today and she did it despite my help.
Now we face days of unpacking, which we can take our time doing.
This morning during a break she went to Wal-Mart and bought a device called “Internet on the Go” with 1.5 Giga Bites of internet usage. This allows us to access the internet with out a cable or satellite or phone line. Handy device which is allowing me this make this post. It is darn fast also. Photo posts on FR load like I was on a high speed cable connection. The physical device is about the size of a credit card but 1/4 of an inch thick. I am happy that it works so well. I can watch YouTube videos posted on FR but understand they eat up the GB usage. The card is like a WiFi connection so I think a WiFi compatible computer is needed.
LOL. But I didn’t plant zukes this year.
Never tried it. I always just use my leftover newspapers.
That’s about what I remember. Years ago we lived in a trailer on a lot that had a peach tree. We only got produce once every 5 years. It was so prolific then, that I thought I would never get finished canning them.
Forgot to tell you. My daughter has had peaches twice in the last 3 years. They did have some worms, because she didn’t burn off the webs that critter makes.
They weren’t too bad though, we just cut out the bad spots and ate them. Our peach trees this year aren’t looking too good. They have quite a few peaches, but the leaves are turning yellow, and we haven’t figured out what the problem is.
Just get the instructions off the web for any standard dehydrater, it should at least help with some general guidelines, and a few trial runs.
I love scrambled eggs and potatoes, sometimes with green onions and peppers, and sometimes with cheese.
That’s the odd thing. The blackberries were so nice last spring. This spring they are pitiful, but the dewberries are really doing well. Go figure?
I don’t remember who posted that either, but I am glad that you have been helped with a solution that worked!
Please excuse my ignorance: how do you tell a new gopher hole from an old gopher hole?
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