BYC gardening thread!!

[BantamFan4Life]

I just dried basil in the microwave!

You can dry herbs in the microwave?

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: Thanks for sharing the video Dan.

 

[dan26552]

Yup

You can dry herbs in the microwave?

Yeah! (I thought the same thing)

Thanks for sharing the video Dan. 

Your welcome

 

[BantamFan4Life]

Yeah! (I thought the same thing)

I would think that would damage them

 

[dan26552]

I would think that would damage them 

Apparently not.

 

[politicalcenter]

You could put basil in a paper sack and dry it on the dash of your car. Just close the windows and park in the sun. Years ago when I worked construction I used to heat my lunch that way. We have also dried oregano that way.

 

[hippiestink]

I'm back from my vacation in Texas! Came back to the weeds blanketing the yard again. They're not as huge as they were though, which is a plus. My pumpkins have female and male flowers, but slugs are eating them! I put out cornmeal as I heard somewhere that slugs like to eat it but it kills them. If that doesn't work my husband gets to collect the slugs and kill them.

Corn has flowers coming. it's a lot stumpier this year, only about four feet tall. That's closer to the height that the strain should have been at last year, I don't know what we did but it made the corn shoot up to seven feet tall.

Peas are slowly drying on the stalk, and I'm hoarding them for next year. We bought fencing to close off the property in case the dogs break free of the fenced areas, and I plan on grabbing some of it to make an A-frame for next year's peas.

Potatoes are starting to die off, which means harvesting soon. Garlic and onions are still growing and green, so we can take that probably in September-October. I'm going to weed the upstairs planters and start planting radishes, daikon, and carrots in a week.

 

[rusticpumpkins]

I'm back from my vacation in Texas! Came back to the weeds blanketing the yard again. They're not as huge as they were though, which is a plus. My pumpkins have female and male flowers, but slugs are eating them! I put out cornmeal as I heard somewhere that slugs like to eat it but it kills them. If that doesn't work my husband gets to collect the slugs and kill them.

Corn has flowers coming. it's a lot stumpier this year, only about four feet tall. That's closer to the height that the strain should have been at last year, I don't know what we did but it made the corn shoot up to seven feet tall.

Peas are slowly drying on the stalk, and I'm hoarding them for next year. We bought fencing to close off the property in case the dogs break free of the fenced areas, and I plan on grabbing some of it to make an A-frame for next year's peas.

Potatoes are starting to die off, which means harvesting soon. Garlic and onions are still growing and green, so we can take that probably in September-October. I'm going to weed the upstairs planters and start planting radishes, daikon, and carrots in a week.

If the corn meal dont work, try diatomaceous earth. I use to to kill slugs and japenese beetles, it works great and is natural.

 

[appps]

Or try encouraging lizards to your garden . We have lizards, lots of lizards. Over summer hubby is constantly chasing them out of the garage and you walk outside and they all dive under the rocks. What I don't have is slugs or snails. First the snails vanished and now it's been a couple years since I've seen a slug. Not sure what types you guys have but they are natures slug and snail exterminators so definatly worth making your garden lizard friendly!

 

[hippiestink]

Or try encouraging lizards to your garden . We have lizards, lots of lizards. Over summer hubby is constantly chasing them out of the garage and you walk outside and they all dive under the rocks. What I don't have is slugs or snails. First the snails vanished and now it's been a couple years since I've seen a slug. Not sure what types you guys have but they are natures slug and snail exterminators so definatly worth making your garden lizard friendly!

Not an easy task here. I don't think we even have lizards, it's too cold for them. Plus these are monster-size French slugs. I'm talking four inches long here! Luckily there's only like four I've seen, so we just pick them off the plant and kill them normally.