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[ladyokie]

Beautiful Pics!!!

 

[Greybear23]

Nice pics Wayne, Love the new bunny! Just take care and don't cut any fingers off!!!! Lynn

 

[old*cowboy]

And here are some garden and yard pics.

awesome pictures. Looks like you have a varmit problem in your garden

He aint peeing on the mators is he.

 

[mjgigax]

awesome pictures. Looks like you have a varmit problem in your garden

He aint peeing on the mators is he.

funny Cowboy

Okie-doodle, I plant marigolds with my tomatoes too.
I love the bunny colors and the lilly colors too, that raspberry one has unique petals, double?

 

[mjgigax]

I wonder is marigolds will keep bugs off squash and gourd plants?

 

[jcatblum]

Wayne are you using a skippy style filter for your pond? or something different? Looks very pretty!

I managed to go back out & get 1/2 of the tomatoes staked. Then ran out of twine. I bought a huge box of tomato twine, had it sitting on the end table-- it is gone, but can't get anyone to confess who moved it. Tore the house apart, guess we may be buying another large box of twine. We did get some coops moved around. I have 3 empty cattle pannel hoop houses, but I know there are enough different types of birds in the brooders to fill them all.

Cathy thanks for the info on notgrass, looks very similar to the parts of sonlight that we actually use. We tried tapestry of grace, it was similar to sonlight, but seemed to require alot of planning on my part. We only used SOS while I was working, kids said they don't want to do any school work on the computer this yr. SOS was just way too much computer time!

 

[jcatblum]

I wonder is marigolds will keep bugs off squash and gourd plants?

This yr I have even had bugs eating my herbs & flowers that are suppose to deter bugs. Marigolds are suppose to help on a normal yr, but this is the yr of the bug.

I planted enough to hopefully have some for myself reguardless of the bugs. Tonight we had fresh squash & zuchinni with our dinner again. Sad part is we should have peppers tomatoes, beans & cucumbers too. However the hail storm really set us back. Looks like we will get 1 tomato this wk if we get it before the bugs do!

 

[Kassaundra]

I have not read anything about marigolds and squash bugs, however tansy is supose to work, I ordered the seed this year but it was backordered and I still have not recieved it so I don't know if it works or not. Letting your radish go to seed is supose to work on cuke beetles, I am experimenting w/ that right now.

The squash bugs are evil this year! I also planted permethium and wormwood, but neither came up.

Oh and another flower I read about I think was for cukes was the old fashioned pink VINING petunias.

 

[artsyrobin]

for those interested- this is a good article on respiration issues- i for one will do what i can to give a bird a fighting chance, just how i am...

i've heard recently about denagard- sounds like something to keep on hand


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[NanaKat]

Great pictures Wayne
Marigolds do not stop squash bugs and Spider mites love Mrigolds and tomatoes.

Had a neat experience today. Our pair of wild Canadian geese that have come to the house for the past 12 years had a family reunion . Lucy and Goosey brought 22 other birds around the property today...the ponds for swimming, the rye fields for greens and brought the gang to the feed trough.
There was no feed and Goosey did some honking. I took two cans out and the flock barely moved. I was able to pour up the scratch, tap the can on the tire and Goosey moved in waving his head and talking to me. Pretty soon the flock was settled in for the buffet. They took turns eatting...the tire is in the right side of the picture.

Then after resting and displaying for each other, they calmly walked single file to the crawdad pond for a snack and a drink.