What did you do in the garden today?

[Ascholten]

Well, I have a fly trap. Basically a bottle with a goofy lid that I poured sour beer into. Checked it today, after about 3 days of sitting on my table and it literally has about 4 inches of dead / drowned flies in it. Simply, wow.

I poured it out to redo it, saving some of the sour to seed the new nasty beer I put back in as bait. What to do with the flies...

I actually got some of the better?? looking ones, rinsed them in water real quick and fed them to my pitcher plants and Venus Fly Traps. (Everyone has to eat right???)

I was wondering, if I did a quick rinse... or not.. I wonder if they'd be good for the girls. Flies Id say absolutely, but the sour beer part, not sure. don't want to put something in them to cause a sour crop etc etc.

Might I be able to feed them to the chickie poo's or just continue to dump in compost and mix well.

The black is literally all flies.

Aaron

 

[WthrLady]

WRONG !! You forgot the shells, silt, possibly the water table at 3 feet, oh and lets not forget, the crap the builders buried so they didn't have to pay for a dumpster when they built your house! for you for the cheap sob builder who buried concrete rocks all over.

If you got a whole inch of good soil and you didn't adjunct it yourself, you are doing pretty good in most places. A big problem in Fla is washout, as you said, sand / silt don't drain well, so when we get a good gully whumper, the good stuff floats off into the storm drains. Weeds now, will grow well, usable stuff... not so well.

TY for your reply

Aaron

LOL. Our part of FL only had sand, OH and Long Pine roots.

 

[Ascholten]

LOL. Our part of FL only had sand, OH and Long Pine roots.

Oh don't worry about the roots.

First good storm and those trees will be laying right over on their sides, on top of your car / house etc, with the roots right about eye ;/ arm level so you can cut them right off eazy peazy!!

Aaron

 

[WthrLady]

Are you guys trying to make me feel good about living in northern Minnesota? I really feel for sorry for all the stuff you guys have to put up with, especially in Jan, Feb, and Mar of most years!

Hey there's nothing like taking the trash out at 2am and stepping over an alligator in the driveway, your tired braining saying it's a log, only to go wait, where'd that log come from, look back and it's not a log.

Or sitting in backed up traffic because a 14 footer decided that the middle of the ONLY north/south paved road was an awesome spot for a warm spring nap. NO one was going to tell him otherwise.

Scorpions in the bathtub.

Lizards everywhere.

OH a bear sleeping in the garage because the concrete is cool and you forgot to shut the door.

Venomous snakes the size of a pencil.

Mosquitoes you can put saddles on.

Wild Boars that laugh at being shot by a shotgun.

Going to kick a big pinecone on a night walk only to find out that armadillos when freaked out can jump three feet straight up in the air, and you can create a scream that can shatter glass and set off car alarms.

Ya know. Florida.

 

[WthrLady]

Oh don't worry about the roots.

First good storm and those trees will be laying right over on their sides, on top of your car / house etc, with the roots right about eye ;/ arm level so you can cut them right off eazy peazy!!

Aaron

Ours just snapped off at 20 feet above the ground. Good times.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Can really say you loved Florida huh

 

[WthrLady]

Can really say you loved Florida huh

Totally did. I miss it.
Weather work was boring, but I miss it. I do NOT like being cold, but I liked having seasons.

 

[vall]

Keep the Florida advice coming.

Do organza bags and insect netting work for aphids on say broccoli, or are the holes too big?

 

[Ascholten]

Well, that snake, coming off a garage door at 8 am and finding it's way down the back of your shirt when you first woke up and opened the door. I bet my scream beat your scream.

Don't forget walking outside on your porch to flip some burgers on the grill, and your head brushing a hornets nest that is hanging right in the door way, that somehow you missed the first time you went out. That wasn't there two days ago.

Oh, and the geese that ^$$^$ everywhere on your porch, driveway etc, that won't get out of the way when you try to drive somewhere.

Stinging nettle that looks just like mint, and loves to grow with your mint is always fun too.

Mockingbirds and Cardinals that want to attack your car mirrors, and also %$^$ all over the car, like the geese do to your driveway are always fun too.

Lets not forget the coons that want to have contests to see who can spread your garbage the farthest, although I am pretty sure they are country wide.

Ahh yes, My Florida

 

[Ascholten]

Do organza bags and insect netting work for aphids on say broccoli, or are the holes too big?

Stink bugs are an issue too, they look like huge aphids. The bags can sometimes work, but they are clever and do find ways in. There are natural repellants for them though.