I give up

[WilliamBos]

Well, I live in Southwest Missouri and my shop is a constant battleground with mud dobbers, spiders, and insects they don't even have names for yet. Yesterday, I had to clean out an RC plane box that a dobber had built a nest in--evan after I had destroyed the nest the day before! My shop equipment is fair game too, as they will get into any nook and cranny thay can.

My solution is to bomb my shop about twice a year. I set the bug bombs off when I close up for the night and sweep up the carnage in the morning. Now, I'm dealing with still another problem---a family of skunks in my horse barn. I still love the country life, even if it has its challenges. Mike.

Go to a hunt or outdoor shop and buy yourself a bottle of fox urine, pour it around the barn anywhere the skunks can get in. Problem solved.

 

[Alan L.]

Well, I live in Southwest Missouri and my shop is a constant battleground with mud dobbers, spiders, and insects they don't even have names for yet. Yesterday, I had to clean out an RC plane box that a dobber had built a nest in--evan after I had destroyed the nest the day before! My shop equipment is fair game too, as they will get into any nook and cranny thay can.

My solution is to bomb my shop about twice a year. I set the bug bombs off when I close up for the night and sweep up the carnage in the morning. Now, I'm dealing with still another problem---a family of skunks in my horse barn. I still love the country life, even if it has its challenges. Mike.

Do you use a particular brand name for the bombs? I've tried it once and didn't notice any success, but maybe we need to try it more often. I would have to clean the shop beforehand to determine if there was any "carnage". Right now there is nearly enough "dirt" that consists of dirt and insect parts that we could plant a crop in the shop.

 

[jinman]

I think something is wrong with the Early Girl tomatoes we bought this year. We have about 6 plants in the same rows as Celebrity and BHN640. The early girls have suddenly wilted and are dying while the other types are thriving. Perhaps there is something wrong with the plants we got this year and they are all suffering from early viral wilt. If it ain't bugs, it's something like this.

 

[s219]

I think something is wrong with the Early Girl tomatoes we bought this year. We have about 6 plants in the same rows as Celebrity and BHN640. The early girls have suddenly wilted and are dying while the other types are thriving. Perhaps there is something wrong with the plants we got this year and they are all suffering from early viral wilt. If it ain't bugs, it's something like this.

We have seen that problem, in fact it really hurt our tomato production last year. It started with one plant, and moved down the row. The plants recovered, but did not thrive like they do in a good year.

 

[Jstpssng]

I think something is wrong with the Eary Girl tomatoes we bought this year. We have about 6 plants in the same rows as Celebrity and BHN0. The early girls have suddenly wilted and are dying while the other types are thriving. Perhaps there is something wrong with the plants we got this year and they are all suffering from early viral wilt. If it ain't bugs, it's something like this.

Did you get all of your plants from the same place?I'd be tempted to pull the sick ones in hopes it doesn't spread. There was a lot of late blight up this way last year, your grower may have gotten some bad seed

 

[sld]

I have several peach trees and they are just covered with peaches. Trouble is that they are only the size of golf balls.

Just picked a bunch tonight.

Weird year for apples too.

 

[Alan L.]

 

[newbury]

<snip> My wife keeps about 25 pot plants on the back porch

Be careful with your spelling, everything is read.
Carnivore / Echelon Trigger Words

 

[jinman]

Alan, that's unbelievable! If you'd told me the grasshoppers were eating peaches off the pits, I would not have believed it. You must have a localized problem because my brother in Whitesboro doesn't have the same troubles. I understand why you say you give up. You need a whole flock of guineas to make a dent on that population. About the only other thing that will kill them once they are mature is a small thermonuclear device.

 

[bigbull338]

building up the soil in a pasture takes time dont give up.the best way todo it is plant rye grass vetch an clover.that puts alot of nitrogen an organic matter in the soil.we havent put any fert on our place in 30yrs.the baler man seen how thick an heavy our coastal was along with the clover vetch an rye grass.so he talked to a retired soil man about it.an he told him what your seeing is an old farmer that knows what he is doing.