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[Obed]

Hi
I told you about my attack, last spring, so remember the `hair dryer` and further last year the nest in the house that I slowly--over the summer--got did of with Seven.....You may be able to get the dust near the opening, and that may get rid of them.....Tony

Tony, hopefully none of us will need the 'hair dryer'. Obed

 

[Obed]

Obed, you are livin' the good life now.:thumbsup: There is NUTHIN' as good as home grown peas and okra. Do you also like cornbread? You may be able to buy stuff at the store cheaper than you can grown and fix it, but you never will find anything from the store that tastes as good as home grown. Besides, family time while shelling anf fixing your own veggies is the best. Your garden looks wonderful too. I hope the critters continue to give you a break.

BTW: Your daughter is cute as a button.

Jim, yes we like cornbread. I like the sweet cornbread like the Northerners but my wife likes hers unsweet like most Southerners. Thanks for the nice comments. Obed

 

[Obed]

i concur with sevin. just spinkle it as close as you can and wait a few days. If it doesn't work - I am against the other idea of tarp as theye can still dig their way out. dont ask me how I know .:ashamed: . If worse comes to worse - you always can shove the pallet back with your tractor bucket and run! Then wait a day and then either burn them out or sprinkle sevin right in the hole.

radioman, I did remove 2 pallets that were in front of the firewood by picking them up and throwing them then running. That's an adrenaline rush. I suppose I could hook a chain to the pallets and drag them off with the tractor using a long cable. There is the possibility that the firewood would fall onto the ground over the nest and I would be in the same situation. Obed

 

[Ranger Rick]

Rick,
I doubt I will try that method in my scenario. With the pallets and firewood in the way, I doubt I could get the area completely covered and I would probably get nailed in the process. I think I'll just leave the nest alone and stay away from that area. This winter I will move the pallets and firewood. I don't know that yellow jackets nest in the same spot a second year but will clear the stuff away just in case so I can find the entrance hole next year if needed.
Obed

I do not blame you for just wanting to leave it all alone. I just had read this in the paper and the author is an organic gardener and this was his no pesticide solution. I thought that I might work with a big enough tarp to cover everything pallets include. Stay away from that area until later this fall. Those Yellow jackets can get aggressive if it is hot and dry.
Glad your garden is doing well. Rick

 

[clemsonfor]

Your garden looks good. Most of my stuff failed. The beans flushed twice and now are not producing? The squash n zucs were replanted 3x till i gave up (borers get them) a bunch of my other stuff never came up, either old or bad seeds i guess, 1 of like 7 ocras sprouted? Also i may not have watered it enough and as soon as then sprouted they could of dried up?

I do have 20 healthy tomato plants that must have produced close to 10, 5-gallon bucket fulls of tomatoes to date. They have given up thier really good flushes so far and started the smaller late season tomatoes that the put on. I need to feed them again. My 2 potted plants i grew for late season were put in a week or 2 ago, and i did not water them enough so one dried up, and i have been nursing those plants for months!!

 

[clemsonfor]

Why not just mix up liquid 7 and pour it down the hole or either put it in a hose end sprayer like for miracle grow and saturate the ground there?

 

[Obed]

Why not just mix up liquid 7 and pour it down the hole or either put it in a hose end sprayer like for miracle grow and saturate the ground there?

The issue is I can't see the hole because there is a pallet with firewood covering the entrance to the nest.

 

[ruralruss]

Jim, yes we like cornbread. I like the sweet cornbread like the Northerners but my wife likes hers unsweet like most Southerners. Thanks for the nice comments. Obed

It ain't cornbread unless there are Jalapenos in it!

 

[patrick_g]

Jim, yes we like cornbread. I like the sweet cornbread like the Northerners but my wife likes hers unsweet like most Southerners. Thanks for the nice comments. Obed

If you only lightly sweeten the cornbread batter with dark (preferably Black Strap) molasses (you can substitute dark brown sugar but it isn't as good) and add in some chopped onion and chopped or minced jalapeños in the batter then you might have something good for folks from either side of the Mason-Dixon line (or more southern border.) Fried and drained minced salt pork or crispy fried, drained and crumbled smoke cured bacon is a good variation to add to the batter. The above is good with or without adding cut corn (canned if you must) to the batter. Do make allowance for the effect of the corn on the liquid requirement of the batter. Dang, makin' my own mouth water...

Camper? My wife and I lived on a medium sized sailboat (most likely a lot less room than your camper) for 9 years and more recently for 9 months in a slide-in pickup camper, removed from the truck and sitting on the floor of a barn. Happy to say that was only until the house for my mom was finished and we lived there till we finished our house. We lived in a 800 sq ft house for a few years, then in just under 1500 and now in 5000+ so noting the progression I am afraid to contemplate another house ( hangar?).

Pat

 

[MotorSeven]

Yellow jacke tholes don't run straight down. They go down a short bit, then run horizontal, and many have other exits. I read somewhere that a nest was over 20' from the entrance.

Here is an old thread where Sassafraspete dug one up:
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/rural-living/64316-opening-up-yellow-jacket-nest.html