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re: 2024 Spring Garden Thread
Posted on 6/12/24 at 10:13 am to ApisMellifera
Posted on 6/12/24 at 10:13 am to ApisMellifera
Unfortunately organic methods are practically useless against the adults. You’ll need something synthetic like permethrin or zeta-cypermethrin (liquid Sevin).
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Posted on 6/12/24 at 11:55 am to PillageUrVillage
this is completely anecdotal but... i was infested with those damn things and i sprayed everything down (including the bugs) with a heavy mixture of dawn dish soap and water. poof...gone pecan
Posted on 6/12/24 at 12:59 pm to cgrand
I’ll give it a try and report back!
If that doesn’t work, I may give my boys the bug-a-salt gun and turn them loose in the garden.
If that doesn’t work, I may give my boys the bug-a-salt gun and turn them loose in the garden.
Posted on 6/12/24 at 2:31 pm to ApisMellifera
Miracle upon miracles I am now producing a few cucs a day, and going to end up with 3-4 batches of squash off my crap garden. Jalapenos are coming in nice, getting a few every other days and bells are putting on.
Still no thoughts on why I have the most beautiful lush Celebrity tomatoes with very little fruit. And the birds have now taken to pecking off my green as hell cherry tomatoes, like half of em.
Still no thoughts on why I have the most beautiful lush Celebrity tomatoes with very little fruit. And the birds have now taken to pecking off my green as hell cherry tomatoes, like half of em.
Posted on 6/12/24 at 2:51 pm to tigerfoot
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Miracle upon miracles I am now producing a few cucs a day
Mine look pretty good right now too and really have increased production the last week and a half.
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And the birds have now taken to pecking off my green as hell cherry tomatoes, like half of em.
They got my blueberries. Every single one. I'll have to set up a net next year.
Posted on 6/12/24 at 5:27 pm to cgrand
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heavy mixture of dawn dish soap and water. poof...gone pecan
That knocked them out quick! Mixed some up in a watering can and gave my 3 most heavily infested plants a good drench all over. By the time I refilled and came back they were neutralized. I could see a couple of them dead on top of a few leaves.
Thanks
Posted on 6/13/24 at 10:47 am to ApisMellifera
quote:I will no longer plant anything that ends in the word: berry. The birds are just too much here. My yard man was able to get enough Goumi berries off our bush to make us one jar of jelly. Nothing else gets ripe before they are all gone.
They got my blueberries. Every single one. I'll have to set up a net next year.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 12:54 pm to ApisMellifera
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And the birds have now taken to pecking off my green as hell cherry tomatoes, like half of em.
They got my blueberries. Every single one. I'll have to set up a net next year.
my damn lab has taken to eating mine. I barely got any blueberries this year because of her. She has also been yanking tomatoes off of the vine.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 3:41 pm to Loup
First time growing dill and I have no idea if anyone near me grows it, but I noticed the plants were chewed to shite a couple of days ago. I looked for what was doing it and saw nothing. I went home for lunch today and there it was, a plump swallow tail caterpillar. I haven't even seen a butterfly at all back there this year.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 5:03 pm to AlxTgr
Bird netting. Every garden plant I have (except two) is enclosed in a mesh building. It is ridiculous. The two that are not netted have been raped by birds, chipmunks, and squirrels.
Just netted my fig tree. Persimmon soon to follow.
Just netted my fig tree. Persimmon soon to follow.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 7:10 pm to ChenierauTigre
quote:mine is way too big to net, it’s at least 20 wide and 30 high. The squirrels/birds and I have a pact…they get the ones I can’t reach I get the rest. Until the other party encroaches we have detente
Just netted my fig tree.
Posted on 6/14/24 at 6:38 am to cgrand
Them shishito peppers put out. But I don’t mind. I ate a plate full last night.
ETA: Also had fajitas made with the homegrown onions and giant Marconi peppers. It might be just in my head, but the food seems to just taste better knowing you grew it (or at least some of it
).
ETA: Also had fajitas made with the homegrown onions and giant Marconi peppers. It might be just in my head, but the food seems to just taste better knowing you grew it (or at least some of it
).This post was edited on 6/14/24 at 6:42 am
Posted on 6/14/24 at 11:56 am to AlxTgr
I always plant enough dill for me and my pickles plus the swallowtails. The heat will fry your dill eventually anyway. Posted this pic a couple pages back. My plants are full of them.
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Posted on 6/15/24 at 3:58 pm to LSUJuice
some wildflowers
A homesteader friend of mine gave me a ziplock full of mixed seeds a few years ago, supposedly you plant the whole thing and “feed your family for a season”. It was beans/squash/pumpkin and who knows what else, we will find out LOL
garden shots. The watermelon was a volunteer I guess the seeds were in the manure
A homesteader friend of mine gave me a ziplock full of mixed seeds a few years ago, supposedly you plant the whole thing and “feed your family for a season”. It was beans/squash/pumpkin and who knows what else, we will find out LOL
garden shots. The watermelon was a volunteer I guess the seeds were in the manure
Posted on 6/16/24 at 6:04 pm to PillageUrVillage
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Marconi peppers
I grew them last year and wish I would have this year
Posted on 6/16/24 at 8:25 pm to Mr Sausage
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I weeded in between some rows this weekend and when I got home today.
Looking for something besides me and my two hands pulling weeds through the summer.
A friend gave me a roll of conveyor belt that I cut to length and placed between my rows. Works great.
Posted on 6/16/24 at 8:42 pm to Loup
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And the birds have now taken to pecking off my green as hell cherry tomatoes, like half of em.
They got my blueberries. Every single one. I'll have to set up a net next year.
my damn lab has taken to eating mine. I barely got any blueberries this year because of her.
I started my blueberries about 4 years ago and the first year the birds wreaked havoc. I was furious. I put up a net with 1/2 inch opening and some still got in. The last two years I’ve used a net with 1/4 inch openings draped over a pvc frame and we have zero bird issues now.
We’ve been picking a couple of bowlfuls every 2-3 days from our 9 bushes for the last 6 weeks or so.
Posted on 6/16/24 at 9:19 pm to 81Tiger
Our tomatoes and green beans are taking a beating in this heat. I am going to look at shade tarps and see how difficult it would be to rig up for the fall and next spring.
But the squash are finally coming on.
But the squash are finally coming on.
Posted on 6/17/24 at 6:38 am to 81Tiger
quote:goddam you don’t frick around LOL. That looks great
81Tiger
finally got a little rain last night. Needed it bad.
I need to dig some holes so I need a lot more
Posted on 6/17/24 at 12:36 pm to cgrand
My garden isn’t nothing to brag about, but about killed myself harvesting over 1000lbs honey Saturday. Will be spinning all week.
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