Vegetable Gardens

[jrsavoie]

You can keep the spiders... I will keep having @Stoney kill them... When I see them this is my face.... So they must die.

Get a 10 or 12 ga. Shotgun and some 00 buck. Excellent for spider eradication

 

[MrMarty51]

If there is a problem of pollination, a Q-Tip does a nice job.
If a person has the time and patience of a bee.

 

[smokymtn65]

And electric toothbrush

 

[MrMarty51]

And electric toothbrush

In one hand and the gas fired leaf blower in the other. Both running full bore.
Total pollination.

 

[jrsavoie]

Got sweet corn in today. 4 rows about 140 yards long. No fertilizer bins on the planter so we broadcast a couple bags of 12-12-12
On it.

We were a little wide on the yard side so we put down some cover crop seed to keep the weeds down - hopefully.

One thing you can tell by watching us - we don't have a clue what we're doing.

We picked up a battery powered spreader to spread the cover crop seed. Never saw such a thing before. It was awesome.
I didn't remember what we had for hand spreaders anymore. I know at least one hit the garbage can. So I thought I'd grab another at the store. I bought a hand crank and the electric. I didn't have great expectations for the battery powered. But it really impressed us. The new hand cranker is going back.

 

[Stoney]

We planted celery around some of the tomatoes today and carrots around other tomatoes. Putting green beans in the ground tomorrow, with potatoes around them. Trying to decide where to plant onions, they might have to go in buckets, or bins cause we're running out of bed space. We have about 13-14 more tomato plants in greenhouse coming out of the bottoms of buckets we hung up in there. Gonna plant more peppers in bins or buckets to go in greenhouse under the tomatoes. Hopefully we'll be able to grow more beans in buckets also. And diesel princess is going wants to plant some strawberries in planter pots heard there hard to grow but we'll try..not sure if they should go in the greenhouse or not

 

[NVW]

Strawberries like raised beds, if you want to keep the birds away (Robbins), chicken wire or some other mesh is a must.

 

[Stoney]

Thank you. Didn't think of that.. been keeping the corn covered at night with plastic to stop the birds.. so far haven't lost any more.. once it's all about 6-8 inch's high we'll quite covering it. Hopefully they stay out then

 

[jrsavoie]

Got sweet corn in today. 4 rows about 140 yards long. No fertilizer bins on the planter so we broadcast a couple bags of 12-12-12
On it.

We were a little wide on the yard side so we put down some cover crop seed to keep the weeds down - hopefully.

One thing you can tell by watching us - we don't have a clue what we're doing.

We picked up a battery powered spreader to spread the cover crop seed. Never saw such a thing before. It was awesome.
I didn't remember what we had for hand spreaders anymore. I know at least one hit the garbage can. So I thought I'd grab another at the store. I bought a hand crank and the electric. I didn't have great expectations for the battery powered. But it really impressed us. The new hand cranker is going back.

Strawberries like raised beds, if you want to keep the birds away (Robbins), chicken wire or some other mesh is a must.

We were told that strawberries would not winter in raised beds - after year 3 of wondering why no strawberries lived in the spring.

 

[NVW]

We were told that strawberries would not winter in raised beds - after year 3 of wondering why no strawberries lived in the spring.

Maybe a different variety, my wife had them in raised beds, they were only 2x6 boards.

 

[Stoney]

Ok here's a question.. does anybody know something that will kill termites in my raised beds keep in mind some of them already have stuff planted in them

 

[MrMarty51]

Ok here's a question.. does anybody know something that will kill termites in my raised beds keep in mind some of them already have stuff planted in them

Diazinon.

 

[MrMarty51]

What bugs does diazinon kill?

It is a nonsystemic organophosphate insecticide formerly used to control cockroaches, silverfish, ants, and fleas in residential, non-food buildings. Diazinon was heavily used during the 1970s and early 1980s for general-purpose gardening use and indoor pest control.

findanyanswer.com

 

[btfarm]

I don't think diazinon is available any longer. And secondly, if you're organically gardening why use such things?

 

[MrMarty51]

I see Diazinon available through Amazon. Of course I aint a gardner. I just want to get rid of them red fire ants and the Diazinon really works good against them critters.

 

[MrMarty51]

I also use a product called Tempo.
I dont know how organically safe it is, once dry it is safe for pets to be around it.
Comes in a jug with the built on measuring device. Squeeze some into that little cup, pour it into one of them quart or better pump up jugs, top it up with water and that gets rid of them sugar ants and small ant like critters.
It also is suppose to be safe in food environments.

 

[Diesel princess]

Diazinon.

We were using diet tomato earth (diatomaceous earth) I forget how it's pronounced most of the time so I call it diet tomato earth... Lol

 

[jrsavoie]

A friend thinks she had luck chasing ants away with baby powder

 

[NVW]

I've stuck a garden hose in an Ant hill and let it run for hours, the spruce trees loved it. The Ants not so much.

We don't use chemicals to control insects, Diatomaceous earth has been used for slugs. two rocks for potato bugs. I had seen some type of insect with a long snought sucking a potato bug dry. For every pest you kill with a Pesticide there are many more predator insects killed, as well as Bees.

I even don't mind the wasps and hornets so much anymore. A couple years ago we were at the start of another grasshopper plague, the yellow jacket wasps were so thick they cleaned up the grasshoppers. A neighbor swears he saw them drag a big blue dragon fly down a hole in the ground.

 

[MrMarty51]

I have heard of people digging a smallish sort of a pit in the top of an ant hill. Melting lots of lead and pouring it down the hole.
What it did with the ant population I know knott, but, when they dug up the lead cast of the ants tunnel system, that looked mighty impressive.