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Our corn is almost three weeks behind, worse in other places, from where it should be at in a normal year, but it's doing okay still, not dying in the fields, just growing slowly
A rough idea of where would help me out to understand.
Here it counts most other plants. Too COLD and TOO WET when the plants were first started.
This also counts perennials which are not as bad but doing poorly, where as in other years when it was WARMER and there was more Sun they did far better.
Basically beside the FACT I am a poor farmer like a cave man
The Bub that cave man like enough for you... (A Whiter Shade of Pale)
And in the past when I was just lucky year after year in a row like this
And in that shot nothing s ready yet, but Oh Boy did we have harvest..
it is nothing like that now.
I made that garden Myself
Here I am just laying it out.
It looked like this.
Then where that pile of dirt is sand and rocks really I added this
Over all it looks like this in mid Spring and it kinda looks like that right now.
Because there was no Sun, it was Too COLD, and has been too WET.
All around gardens look like this weeks behind we don't have. I am counting on more than one KILLING Frost IN August!
Anyone wanna bet?
Right now i am planting alternates where i pulled the potatoes. This is very early to pull the taters but the bugs were beating me down and so I stopped the bugs by yanking the patch and tilling it all in.
I don't use bug killers and won't. I don't like eating poison.
I don't use bug killers and won't. I don't like eating poison.
Have you tried some natural means and non-toxic pesticides? There are some commercially made pesticides that are derived from natural means which might reduce your bug problems while keeping within the requirements of "not eating poison".
Though, keep in mind that even natural ones can be poison. For instance, creating a tea from potato leaves is a good pesticide for non-food bearing plants, but you definitely don't want to put on the plants you eat.
A tea made of tobaccy juice, lemon detergent (not the anti-bacterial kind) and garlic is great deterriant without being harmful to humans.
from what I understand it gives the bugs the runs and just like humans, they dont like that. LOL.
also, spraying habinaro juice on your plants will keep most animals animals away.
I have heard the dish detergent works well, I have used it for fire ants and it really does keep them away (Pepper works as well, but obviously it is more of an indoor solution), though some say it is just as toxic as pesticides, though to be honest I think with some people, anything that isn't bought from a organic stand they consider toxic.
Have you tried some natural means and non-toxic pesticides? There are some commercially made pesticides that are derived from natural means which might reduce your bug problems while keeping within the requirements of "not eating poison".
Though, keep in mind that even natural ones can be poison. For instance, creating a tea from potato leaves is a good pesticide for non-food bearing plants, but you definitely don't want to put on the plants you eat.
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Have you tried some natural means and non-toxic pesticides? There are some commercially made pesticides that are derived from natural means which might reduce your bug problems while keeping within the requirements of "not eating poison".
Though, keep in mind that even natural ones can be poison. For instance, creating a tea from potato leaves is a good pesticide for non-food bearing plants, but you definitely don't want to put on the plants you eat.
Yes some but they vary in what happens. I am trying to find diatomaceous earth locally..... It will kill insects by death of 1,000 cuts. L The likes of grass hoppers locusts, beetles etc.
Aphids are big this year, and ants are after them. Garden spiders are abundant and kill most anything that gets in their webs.
At this point things are so bad I am letting some creatures i would normally kill remain feeding and alive. One is larva of the Buckeye Moth. I may sacrifice some tomatoe plants as well to horn worms, which become humming bird moths.
I also use soapy water and vinegar. I hand gather japanese beetles in a tin can partly full of water and soap which ruins the water tension and the drown quickly. For them I have a weed type i allow to remain called Sun Drop which they like, and can be easily caught with the can. Their method of escape is to roll and drop.
In past years I could kill as many as 6,000 in a single day. That isn't happening anymore, as i kill under 200 a day now, and they are smaller this year than in the past. I think that with the COLD there is less for them too.
We are having September weather in August, so who knows.
Yup feels that way here now. Like I said i expect a killing frost in late August.
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