What did you do in the garden today?

[karenerwin]

 

[karenerwin]

 

[karenerwin]

 

[pennyJo1960]

Goodnight all my day has been one thing after another tied to baking bread, biscuits
chocolate pie dog food then dinner.. weedeating my path to silky coop and cleaning all three coops

 

[cavemanrich]

They (and I ) are trying to figure out the best way to get rid of them. They don't have the $ to call in a pest control service. Any suggestions?

I have used one of these sprays. Kind of forgot which one, but they ALL are equivalent. Go to hardware store paint department and ask there. Painters seem to encounter wasps and hornets as they paint, quite often.
The can that I used would shoot a stream at least 15 feet long. This way you are a distance away when you do the spraying.

After you empty one can,,,, check next day if there is any activity.
If no activity, remove hive into a plastic bag, and preferably incinerate, so no eggs hatch.

 

[WthrLady]

5am and 80 degrees feels like 85 w the humidity

 

[Sueby]

Yup only time I had to deal with it, was pretty much overnight. Not sure if anyone else has answered this, haven't been on. I pretty much wait if they look good, once they start getting spotted and dead leaves which I don't know if it is a sign of blight was never a big deal before, but once I see it that's when I start spraying. And I only spray them after a rain, or occasionally once in awhile otherwise. I actually just sprayed mine today for the first time, and then we had rain off and on all day lol so I'll have to do it again. I try not to use it too much cause they say even though it's organic you can end up with a build up in the soil, probably doesn't pertain to us home growers prob more for commercial growers but I still limit it. Haven't lost a plant since I started using it.
There actually is late blight resistant tomatoes, but just resistant, from what I read that means they will live until you get some tomatoes and then they get the blight anyway. Not sure if they are worth it, I'd rather stick to the varieties I like that do good here.

Thank you!! Funny, just before I came in here this am I ordered a bottle from Amazon, it will be here tomorrow. I went out last night and looked, I have it on a couple plants, of course it started on the Brandywine!

It stinks cuz they are new beds and soil, I mulched super deep with straw and trim all the bottom branches up at least a foot and they still got it.

 

[WthrLady]

Overhead watering?

 

[Sueby]

Overhead watering?

Nope, I hand water with a wand at the base. I put in a soaker house recently too hoping that would help (and save my back!). But I do water in the evening, around 4 or 5pm. I have only had to water twice this year though. It could be that i didn't clean my pruning shears after last year's bad bout.

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

My problem is that this year we have 20 or more of those tunnels! My husband's ex-wife and her husband run a mole trapping company (MoleNoMo)( the last MO is for Missouri) any way, I am about ready to call them and see if we can get some traps from them! I'm not sure why they are so bad this year. Our neighbor has been battling them every year that we have been here (13 years) because he didn't want his horses breaking a leg in a mole hole. Plus, he just doesn't like them tearing up his yard. He hasn't had the horses for 2 or 3 years now but this is the first year the moles have been bad in our yard.
ETA: I did get the grass cut this morning before the oppressive heat moved in. I also went and checked on the raspberry canes that I planted last year. The weeds in that area had overtaken them like crazy! All 3 canes were still alive or had at least put out new shoots that were alive. I pulled out the weeds all around them and saw a praying mantis on one of the dead canes. Hopefully, they will continue to grow and get established. The blackberries that I planted at the same time but in a different area are doing fabulous!
My son just called and said they just found a hornet nest in their attic about the size of a grapefruit. They (and I ) are trying to figure out the best way to get rid of them. They don't have the $ to call in a pest control service. Any suggestions?

I have this same problem. We've been tryimg to catch the mole but he's figured out how to go around the trap. We've moved it a dozen times to no avail.