Posted on 07/05/2019 3:24:11 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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Lovely garden crops as always!
And a GREAT Granddaughter is the Cherry On Top of a Life Well Lived! :)
Do you know what town in Missouri Greeneyes lived near before aliens abducted her?
1 gallon of vinegar, 1/4 cup of liquid dish soap. Spray it on thoroughly.
Be aware that it does not discriminate, so if you’re spraying near a plant you like, put something up to shield it.
It also doesn’t kill the root, so it may take a few passes. But it fries the leaves so well you’d think you’d just thrown battery acid on them!
Nice!
My corn is still being planted. It’s a short-season corn, so I should still get a crop out of it. But all these rain delays are getting frustrating.
In the 25 years I have lived in this house, I NEVER seen a rabbit.
This year I saw one cross the road around the corner a month ago.
Then a week later he/she was spotted in neighor’s front yard....them spotted him in my front yard.
Now....my garden is all in a greenhouse or in wooden crates at least 3.5 feet high.
I am fairly confident the rabbit wouldn’t be able to get into any if my stuff.
But I will.be darned if I didn’t see him in my back yard today....not taking any chances.
Ordered some live traps from Amazon....arriving Sunday.
Does the doll repel the aphids or do the aphids like the dill more? Serious question...
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..... but your hands get a little dirty now and then.
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This is the coolest Coneflower, ever! 'Salsa Red.' I bought it at a hardware store this past spring.
Potatoes on the right and 'Betternut' squash on the left. I put down cardboard and the plants can grow out into the grass. We couldn't get them planted where they belong in the lower garden due to all of the WET this spring. The hog panel trellis will have a climbing rose on it (she's in there, LOL!) and in the far back is our old Allis-Chalmers tractor from the 1940's that still works like a champ!
The 'Betternut' squash beginning to form. A more compact version of 'Butternut' squash which get too big for our needs.
My recovered Porch Pots which are NOT actually ON on the Porch because PUPPIES and the porch is being re-roofed by Beau. An annual grass in the center, 'Blackie' Sweet Potato Vine and 'Black Russian' petunia.
'Cherokee Purple' tomato. Tomatoes are JUST getting caught up. A little Blossom End Rot from all of the rain, but I did put Bone Meal and crushed eggshells in the planting holes, so really a lot LESS damage than there could've been!
BONUS SHOT: On this morning's episode of, 'NOW WHAT?!?!' Ho Chunk managed to get himself wedged in the mud under the deck and couldn't back out. Beau had to take off two deck boards to get him out. Only harm was to his ego.
Yay for Bagels and Cream Cheese! I’m making omelettes this morning with Zukes and herbs from the garden. :)
Dill, a fragarent herb, is known as a natural insect repellent against aphids, cabbage looper, spider mites and squash bugs.
It is also known to be a 'trap crop' for tomato hornworm, those large green caterpillars that defoliate mature plants.
The hornworms can be more easily identified in the lacey dill folliage, and easily removed, or drowned.
Also, dill attracts certain varieties of butterfly, such as the 'swallow-tail butterfly', so be selective.
Since they are members of the Umbelliferae family, dill will cross-pollinate with carrots; not reccommended.
There are many other herbs that can be planted with vegetable crops:
'companion planting', and 'trap crops' will increase vegetable production, and use natural repellents.
Thank you. It has to work well or I won’t attempt it....my tomatoes and peppers are all in the greenhouse and space is limited.
Zucchini omelet......how healthy can you get?
Does something in the bone meal make the calcium in the eggshells more bioavailable or is it just good practice because the bone meal and eggshells do their own thing without any help?
While the dill will protect the tomatoes and peppers, be prepared to transplant if the dill gets too big and tall..,
or find someone with a wheelbarrow full of cukes for pickling.
Also, the dill makes for an interesting condiment for cream cheese and many appetizers.
Call it gardening multi-tasking !!
I have a LOT of cucumbers coming in....I bought some dill seed which I am going to sow in a day or two.
The Bone Meal provides Phosphorus for blooming and setting fruit, so I use it on tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, okra; just about anything that fruits. It’s cheap and effective!
The eggshells provide calcium to ward off Blossom End Rot, which is not a ‘disease’ but a lack of calcium. Calcium is the first thing to leach out of your soil (or anything potted) when there’s a LOT of rain - which is what we’re dealing with this season in Zone 4/5, in the SE corner of Wisconsin.
I use both Bone Meal and crushed up eggshells when planting out my peppers and zucchini, because they can get Blossom End Rot, too.
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But I willbe darned if I didn’t see him in my back yard today....not taking any chances.
Ordered some live traps from Amazon....arriving Sunday.
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Christ, don't kill the rabbits. Build your garden fences better.
(TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBigFool)
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............ you never saw an English grammar book either, eh?
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