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[chickadoodles]

Quote: This isn't a chemical. It's a naturally-occurring bacterium that specifically targets caterpillars (though there is one strain of this bacterium that targets mosquitoes, known as Bti). It is one thing that can be used by organic farmers without any threat to their "organic" status.
Really? Ok thank you Bunnylady and Beer can. I will have to get some and try it. I just did not want to eat any more chemicals.

 

[Beer can]

Yeah I use no chemicals in my garden either. Just poop, thuricide for the cabbage loopers, and organic copper fungicide sparingly for tomato late blight. Lost a whole crop the yr Bonnie plants supposedly started it. I wasn't using Bonnie plants, started my own. Thought was go in to miss me, they looked fine. Guy at work asked if I had tomatoes yet cause that's when it hits, and it comes in from the wind, any distant neighbors have it we will. Nah, ours are fine...
Well one day thirty some big bushy plants, next all turned black....

 

[Red5]

IF everyone drove them. IF they were the only vehicles on the road they would be safe.
I read a long article I believe it was in Time magazine some months ago on the 'smart car' technology. No traffic jams, no red lights no stop signs, no accidents. Everyone's cars would automatically adjust speed using so no stopping would be necessary. Through GPS and the cars 'talking' to each other.
Thinking about it reminded me of the movie 'Fifth Element' where they are all driving those space ship like cars at different levels in the city.
Only way for it to work would be for everyone to comply with a government mandate eliminating all other vehicles from roads.
Good idea? I think not, but they won't care.
The Time article was "Why You Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Drive" no link cause you have to subscribe, I read it in the mag.
They seem to think we will see this in the very near future.

Read some articles from Arizona where they allow these driverless cars to operate on roads. Every other one has ran into a police car.....We have a long ways to go before this tech is safe.

 

[Beer can]

I apologize to you as well.  I am very sorry.  I did not explain myself properly.  I was not referring to the Thuricide but to the doing my best to eat chemical free part.  I surrender.  I just can't avoid p$%^&ing you guys off I guess.

Actually there is some gardeners that do not want to use anything even that thuricide stuff, chemical or not. I just figured you didn't want any part of artificial methods of growing.
Some believe you should only grow what is easily and completely natural for their area and environment.
Like us and tomatoes right now, late blight has almost been a guarantee the last five yrs. Some say I shouldn't grow tomatoes then, switch to something else...hmmm, I must have my own tomatoes no matter what!
Then there is the whole 'till or no till' debate, I prefer till, some are dead against it.
I took no offense to your posts, everyone has different methods.
Certified organic farm on the other side of the hill from us uses black plastic for weed control. My thought is, doesn't plastic degraded and the chemicals enter the ground?

 

[microchick]

@chickisoup ! For goodness sake please don't go!

Come on guys! We have all been able to agree or disagree with on another on this thread for as long back as I can remember. Yeah, we might tic one another off on occasions but we are like a big family scattered all over the country. We pout a bit but hey, we're family. We get over it!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Well if we can't all get along, it looks like we're going to have a site wide time out, anyway...

Sorry.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion. And those opinions, as long as presented without malice, should be accepted here.


I think the smart cars are cute. I drove one about 8 years ago, and was so excited to, and absolutely hated it. While the front was as comfortable and sizey as my (at the time) Neon, the lack of a back seat or trunk was unnerving. Also, the stick shift was stupid. There was, if I remember correctly, no clutch. You kinda pushed forward or down on the gear shift and it shifted up a gear, but it would down shift on its own when you slowed. Confused the hell out of me. Never wanted to drive one, since.

 

[Bunnylady]

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For the life of me, I can't figure out why you think I'm ticked off?

I figured that, if you'd been through the Master Gardener classes and whatnot, surely you would have been told about what sorts of things you can or can't do and still maintain certification. Too many people think that "organic" means you have to go belly-up to whatever munch monsters are out there, but there are things that you can do; I thought you'd be able to verify that, with your background. I guess I owe you an apology for the confusion.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Got the sashing put on the ugly block of the week quilt that I made with scraps. With the sashing it looks a bit better, to me.




Despite it being cold and dreary here, and nothing blooming except the early daffodils, I got my first hummingbird today.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

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Man, am I ever behind!

I try to eat in moderation, knowing eventually there may be things I have to cut from my diet. I did have two delicious pork chops the evening we discussed the food. Our employers ate the following for breakfast every morning:

one orange/half a grapefruit, a bowl of porridge topped with real 100% cream skimmed off the milk from the milk cow, 2 eggs and 4 slices of bacon. And then they had a full beef, potato, fresh veggie laden dinner with cake topped with ice cream...every day.

They both lived to see 90. I have a friend, same age as me, he's never eaten fast food (I know!) and he had a heart attack 3 years ago and stints put in. Heart disease runs on his father's side.

I like icecream. It doesn't like me. I eat it and my hands split open.

Babygirl is one of my tiniest chickens. She's a teeny, weeny white Silkie cross with clean, dark green legs, I'm assuming with one of the duckwing OEGB roos as her Dad. I never handled her but anyone can pick her up and she just blinks as much to say, hi, what do you want? She doesn't move, she never flaps...she just sits there all snugly, looks at you and blinks.

She's the first egg I hatched and she's a top roost hen. She just never goes anywhere...she lays in the coop, in the sun, wings stretched out and she pants because she gets hot.

I suppose being that small, 10 feet out from the coop IS a lot of exercise for her...lol.

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Just caught DD's cat on our kitchen counter, never saw her up there ever, licking a stick of butter...was not too happy. In the garbage. Then I got thinking, wonder how many times she's done that and we didn't know?

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Bad kitty!

 

[microchick]

My dad was like that. He ate eggs, pork chops, gravy and bread with gravy on it, more gravy, bacon...with gravy if it was available, I think you get the picture. He lived to be 94 and his cholesterol levels were always around 160.

I wish I had inherited those genes from him but instead I got a mix. I can keep my cholesterol pretty much ok, a bit high but ok if I watch everything I eat.

I love good food so that's a cruel trick to play on anyone.