Posted on 11/01/2013 12:11:04 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Ok, I’ll wrap the pots in gunny sack material, I have those by the gazoo.
Are you going to make some sausage?
/johnny
When I was soda jerking at Mom’s cousin’s ice cream parlor, 2 fellows would come in and do that with a paper napkin in
between, then move to another booth and see if we could
separate them without spilling everything.
Now johnny, try separating them, with spilling.
ooops, WITHOUT spilling them.
/johnny
I believe that it will work on sucking and leaf eating insects since it is a systemic insecticide, with a limited 'half-life'.
The Bacillus Thuringienis is specific to the Lepodoptera family of moths and butterflies , and is 'organic' and found naturally in the wild .
Bt is generally found in powder form , can be mixed with water
and a few drops of liquid soap as a surfactant (made sticky on waterproof leaves)
and is not toxic to humans.
No. I whack Mr. Wonderful with a rolled up newspaper, LOL!
I don’t know where hitting a tree to make it produce comes from. Some Old Wives Tale.
As for me? I pray for a wet spring and no late frosts. I feed my fruit trees with a granular New Lawn Starter that is a 10-18-10 formulation as soon as they start leafing out.
Also, I don’t prune them until they are about 5 years old, so they can TAKE it.
My fruit trees produce quite well! TONS of cherries and peaches this season. My apples, not so much, but I got a TON of apples from friends, so Life Is Still Good. :)
Ok, I thought it was you who told me about that. It’s been a few years though, so I must be remembering wrong.
Hi ya Diana, I haven’t seen you in awhile!
LOL! That’s OK. I knew what you were talking about, anyways!
Oh, Boy! I was kinda underground and digging out from under for a few years, there. Glad to see you’re still alive and kickin’ up the dirt! :)
Managing a Garden Center these days, so that takes up a lot of my time, as well as running my little farm and Mr. Wonderful’s BIG farm in the next county.
Life Is Good! :)
Where there’s a will there’s a way.LOL
Good idea.
/johnny
/johnny
At 8 am this morning it was 47.
I had 44 for an overnight low, not sure what time that was, though.
Yesterday was a perfect day here, I was able to make a little sawdust for a bit. Today looks to be more of the same.
I posted a video of Gracie discovering a puppy in the mirror.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZIOZhVwW7M
Hi Diana, good to hear from you. I was wondering about what you were up to. Figured you were keeping busy.
I have been reading up on peach trees lately. Some of the advice is to spray the trees around February to help prevent fungus. Do you do anything like that?
Only a few degrees cooler than that here in the TX Hill Country. Got me in gear for working on my "Gonna be a Texas Prepper's Greenhouse". Measured for all my cuts on the wood for the ends, door, and window.
I was thinking of buying an electric stapler (not pneumatic, just electric) to staple the greenhouse film to the wood..Any recommendations out there? I will be stapling into treated pine.
From the reviews I've seen, it seems like my old hand stapler would probably be better.
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