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kudzu said:
LOLOL.. I always got my husband to do it.. I would have done it myself at night, but was always afraid of squatting over a snake or something.
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LMAO.... what a great mental picture that conjured. Mr. Owl was horrified at the idea of peeing outside to keep the deer away, so instead he built a six-foot fence around the veggie plots. So far, so good, knock on wood.
 
leaningright said:
Got home from KY last Friday. The bugs are about to carry my garden off. Squash bugs all over my squash plants, some little iridescent green-back bug sucking the sap (and thus the life) out of my cucumbers, ants invading my okra...it’s the invasion of the insects! Oh, and the rabbits had eaten about 1/4 of my green beans.

I dispatched the rabbit with my Ruger Airhawk pellet gun yesterday morning before going to church and have a jar with a little gasoline in it and have started picking the bugs off my squash plants and have used some liquid Sevin on my cucumbers (its several weeks before they start bearing).

IT’S FARGIN WAR!!!
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Powdered Sevin might be better to spray on the underside of leaves. A little easier.

Another method I heard is leave something like roofing shingles near the plants. The squash bugs will crawl underneath and you step on them en masse.

Also, plant another variety of squash away from the one you wish to eat as a decoy. They prefer some over others.
 
leaningright said:
The culprit...mostly, that I didn’t see the other evening when I sprayed the Sevin was revealed today. Striped cucumber beetles. Never been bothered by them before. They were lying dead by the dozen as I examined things this morning. I also saw the spotted variety on my potato vines as well as a few potato bugs. The Sevin took care of the potato bugs as well. Still haven’t identified the tiny, green-backed bug but there’s not as many of them as I first thought. They’re now dead too. No squash bugs this morning but I did scrape eggs off of four leaves. Made a funnel with the leaf and rolled them into my Gatorade bottle with a dab of gasoline on the bottom. They’re in there with their parents now. Far be it from me to be a home wrecker. ;)

I put 32+ lbs of cabbage in my crock yesterday. Should have kraut in a couple of weeks. Green beans will be ready to can next week and my tomatoes are coming on. Going to pull onions and bunch them this weekend. Potatoes still lack a couple weeks but am enjoying some new potatoes now. Busy time but I love it.

Oh, this is the first time I have planted cucumbers and squash where they are. But it has been a watermelon and cantaloupe patch the past two years. I’m sure that’s what has done the evil deed of drawing in the sap sucking bugs.
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Can you take pics of the bugs?
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
This year I'm trying something new. We're way behind you southern gardeners... snow just melted off a bit over a month ago. Heard that mycorrhizal fungi is as good as or better than fertilizer, so once things are up and growing, going to mix up a batch and apply it. Has anyone ever tried this before? This is the one I got:

http://www.fungi.com/shop/fungi-for-healthy-gardens.html
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Never tried that but it is more or less why some people recommend you keep roots in the ground all winter if possible even if the top growth is dead.
 
Kacper said:
What kind of class required The Hidden Life of Trees? Just curious.
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It's called "Kinomaage" which means in Ojibwe roughly "the earth shows us the way" or "earth teaches us." It is an immersion course in indigenous people's ancient ways of living, cosmology, identification and use of native plants in this region, as well as pre- and post-colonial history of this area. Our science and modern understanding of the relationships between various life forms -- particularly in the plant world -- shows that there is good scientific evidence for the indigenous belief that all living things are related in some way. The course is also of interest to foragers and survivalists and/or those who just want to try to include some of the old ways in their daily modern life.

https://www.nmu.edu/nativeamericanstudies/kinomaage
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
It's called "Kinomaage" which means in Ojibwe roughly "the earth shows us the way" or "earth teaches us." It is an immersion course in indigenous people's ancient ways of living, cosmology, identification and use of native plants in this region, as well as pre- and post-colonial history of this area. Our science and modern understanding of the relationships between various life forms -- particularly in the plant world -- shows that there is good scientific evidence for the indigenous belief that all living things are related in some way. The course is also of interest to foragers and survivalists and/or those who just want to try to include some of the old ways in their daily modern life.

https://www.nmu.edu/nativeamericanstudies/kinomaage
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Thanks. Hope you got something out of it. I had to do a god-awful two week granola immersion touchy-feely summer retreat in university as part of my campus job and literally thought I was going to murder some of those people before it was over. I barely spoke a word the last couple days in the field unless forced to as to keep from exploding on them. The only upside was a multi-hundred millionaire resort owner alum let us use his gigantic lake house the last two days so there was plenty of room to hide from those devils.
 
Kacper said:
Thanks. Hope you got something out of it. I had to do a god-awful two week granola immersion touchy-feely summer retreat in university as part of my campus job and literally thought I was going to murder some of those people before it was over. I barely spoke a word the last couple days in the field unless forced to as to keep from exploding on them. The only upside was a multi-hundred millionaire resort owner alum let us use his gigantic lake house the last two days so there was plenty of room to hide from those devils.
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GeezusKrystOnCrackers! Sorry. We tree-huggers can be an annoying bunch. lol

I took my class because I wanted to. Had no idea that there were such classes here when we moved up in 2016. Husband saw a poster on the wall in a class he was taking last year -- Coast Guard boating safety -- and texted it to me. It led me to a whole new place, and now I am seeking a BS degree in Native American Studies. My ancestors were from this land. I've found people who share my soul and this land satisfies my soul as well. I'm a dirt girl, earth mama, tree hugger, dirty hippy. lol

Granola is yuck. lol
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
GeezusKrystOnCrackers! Sorry. We tree-huggers can be an annoying bunch. lol

I took my class because I wanted to. Had no idea that there were such classes here when we moved up in 2016. Husband saw a poster on the wall in a class he was taking last year -- Coast Guard boating safety -- and texted it to me. It led me to a whole new place, and now I am seeking a BS degree in Native American Studies. My ancestors were from this land. I've found people who share my soul and this land satisfies my soul as well. I'm a dirt girl, earth mama, tree hugger, dirty hippy. lol

Granola is yuck. lol
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I am partially of Cherokee lineage but that is more trivia to me than anything meaningful in my life. My retreat was filled with lovely team building things like try to hoist everybody on your team through a tire strung between trees after having a group session before and after about the symbolism of it as being reborn into a new way of thinking bullshit. I was all "It is 200 degrees out here and the mosquitoes are eating us alive, speed this shit up why dontcha before my rebirth is as a larvae in a stagnant pond" and all the lesbians had to cycle the whole time between competing to be the alpha queen bitch and boo-hoo woe-be-me-me stuff from the time they got up until the time they went to bed.

Anyway, din't want to derail the gardening thread. Sorry. I was just venting the whole thing still pisses me off so much at how useless it was.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
You've tried it and noticed a difference? Do you have to re-inoculate every year or will it survive over winter?
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Usually, the mycorrhizae is only applied at planting and stay with that root system after that. They go dormant and should survive winters. The fungi have to come into direct contact with the roots and that difficult with established plants.
 
domer76 said:
Usually, the mycorrhizae is only applied at planting and stay with that root system after that. They go dormant and should survive winters. The fungi have to come into direct contact with the roots and that difficult with established plants.
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Thanks.
 
Kacper said:
I am partially of Cherokee lineage but that is more trivia to me than anything meaningful in my life. My retreat was filled with lovely team building things like try to hoist everybody on your team through a tire strung between trees after having a group session before and after about the symbolism of it as being reborn into a new way of thinking bullshit. I was all "It is 200 degrees out here and the mosquitoes are eating us alive, speed this shit up why dontcha before my rebirth is as a larvae in a stagnant pond" and all the lesbians had to cycle the whole time between competing to be the alpha queen bitch and boo-hoo woe-be-me-me stuff from the time they got up until the time they went to bed.

Anyway, din't want to derail the gardening thread. Sorry. I was just venting the whole thing still pisses me off so much at how useless it was.
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It sounds like that segment in the Addams Family Values movie where the kids got shipped off to Camp Chippewa or some such rot. lol

My class was nothing like that.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
GeezusKrystOnCrackers! Sorry. We tree-huggers can be an annoying bunch. lol

I took my class because I wanted to. Had no idea that there were such classes here when we moved up in 2016. Husband saw a poster on the wall in a class he was taking last year -- Coast Guard boating safety -- and texted it to me. It led me to a whole new place, and now I am seeking a BS degree in Native American Studies. My ancestors were from this land. I've found people who share my soul and this land satisfies my soul as well. I'm a dirt girl, earth mama, tree hugger, dirty hippy. lol

Granola is yuck. lol
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Interesting. Prince Madoc of Powys, from here, sailed to America in the 1100's, then came back and took a lot of people over there with him, allegedly. It took ages to find what was thought to be them, the Mandans, but by then they were busy dying out, and the language didn't look much like ours. It was important in justifying the British Empire, but if they took any on our gardening habits over with them I've yet to hear!
 
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