What did you do in the garden today?

[politicalcenter]

That is wonderful,I am ignorant but what are cowpeas?  My chooks would clean you out in 2 minutes lol  Dare I ask what is going on in the 'upper garden' - whatever I am coming for dinnere

Cowpeas are also called blackeye peas.

 

[chickadoodles]

Potted up 50 tomatoes this morning, which means I have somewhere just over a hundred so far.

What kinds of tomatoes are you growing Dan?

 

[dan26552]

What kinds of tomatoes are you growing Dan?

I've got some Chadwick Cherries but the rest (like 90%) Are an unknown variety that I call Mom's tomato since my mom had me save the seeds from a tomato she really like that we got at a farmers market in CA in 2015 and I planted last year so if it was a hybrid (which I'm assuming it was) this years plants are F3s

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: Sounds good.
I planted seeds from my Purple Cherokee Celebrity from last year. Not nearly as many as you have.

 

[whoop whoop]

@politicalcenter well I love the band lol not sure I have had black eyed peas - Can you make chilli with them?

 

[whoop whoop]

Has anyone had experience with 'Army Worm' we have our own here,but apparently the US version has landed in Nigeria and currently making its way south destroying everything. Is is true they are in excess of 3 meters? Some have been noticed north of Jo'burg. Honestly Africa never gets a break, three years of drought and now this, it is moving thru the mielies which is the staple diet of most Africans, like wildfire and we don't have the pesticides to kill it, they have to be imported at huge cost.

I know you guys make the biggest and the best in the world, but could you perhaps on this occassion make a smaller version

 

[dan26552]

Has anyone had experience with 'Army Worm' we have our own here,but apparently the US version has landed in Nigeria and currently making its way south destroying everything.  Is is true they are in excess of 3 meters?  Some have been noticed north of Jo'burg.  Honestly Africa never gets a break, three years of drought and now this, it is moving thru the mielies which is the staple diet of most Africans, like wildfire and we don't have the pesticides to kill it, they have to be imported at huge cost.

I know you guys make the biggest and the best in the world, but could you perhaps on this occassion make a smaller version

Lost most my tomatoes to them last year didn't have much luck with homemade sprays or neem oil, then I stumbled across something about them not liking sunflowers so I planted sunflowers with the tomatoes, they left shortly after that. This year I'm planting lots of sunflowers.

 

[whoop whoop]

Lost most my tomatoes to them last year didn't have much luck with homemade sprays or neem oil, then I stumbled across something about them not liking sunflowers so I planted sunflowers with the tomatoes, they left shortly after that. This year I'm planting lots of sunflowers.

Thanks Dan that really is worth knowing I'm planing sunflowers too LOTS

 

[lazy gardener]

Has anyone had experience with 'Army Worm' we have our own here,but apparently the US version has landed in Nigeria and currently making its way south destroying everything. Is is true they are in excess of 3 meters? Some have been noticed north of Jo'burg. Honestly Africa never gets a break, three years of drought and now this, it is moving thru the mielies which is the staple diet of most Africans, like wildfire and we don't have the pesticides to kill it, they have to be imported at huge cost.

I know you guys make the biggest and the best in the world, but could you perhaps on this occassion make a smaller version

Quote: They are not big, at least the ones I'm familiar with. Perhaps 4cm. when full grown. Here's an article about some natural predators/insecticides. https://www.planetnatural.com/pest-problem-solver/garden-pests/armyworm-control/

And an other article: http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/field/fall_armyworm.htm

I would think that your government could do something to bring in the needed materials to fight this invasion.

 

[whoop whoop]

They are not big, at least the ones I'm familiar with. Perhaps 4cm. when full grown. Here's an article about some natural predators/insecticides. https://www.planetnatural.com/pest-problem-solver/garden-pests/armyworm-control/

And an other article: http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/field/fall_armyworm.htm

I would think that your government could do something to bring in the needed materials to fight this invasion.

Thanks for that I passed on the tip of sunflowers but as was pointed out to me that it is a hellav lot of sunflowers to plant and too late anyway as the mielies are all ready/growing - the ones that have migrated are 3m long apparently I haven't seen them but some of our farmers are besides themselves - it seems nothing can stop them. Our government,

but that is mean

Besides that, I suspect we shall get through - Africa still manages to exist even through all its problems - could have a food shortage though - job opportunities

thanks again for the threads I will pass on to the powers that are/could be lol