What did you do in the garden today?

[vall]

I think I posted this before but Ill post it again.
I have an Okinawa spinach, and a few others, including a pineapple sage growing in a tote. The spinach must have originated at Chernobyl because it is growing like I never seen before. This thing literally has a trunk that is probably 4 to 5 inches in diameter and is probably 15 foot tall now. and FULL of flowers, kind of like a sturdy bottle brush tree of sorts. Oh plus it's very edible and very good for you.

I also have Night Blooming Jasmine that is under my windows and this is abotu the time of year it goes crazy. This stuff is amaziong, when the weather is right, I open the window turn the fan on and suck cook air into the house with the aroma of the NBJ and the whole house smells wonderful, and literally you can smell this plant several doors down.,

anyways, I have had a problem with it, where some huge ass moth, not sure what kind it is, and I really don't care, flits around, lays eggs and the caterpillars destroy this plant, I mean literally they will eat everything down to the main vein in the leaves. Little green MF SOB's. They don't stop with it either, I have also found them trying to get onto my papaya's and other fruit trees / trees as well, so yes they are a problem

Well this year I am going to stay right on top of that, i am not going to wait until the tree is half devoured because literally it only takes them a day or so to destroy an entire bush! I have the sprayer ready to nuke these things the moment I see them starting to appear. Today i go out and the spinach, which big flowery, has a bit of an aroma actually too surprisingly, has all these big moths flying around it, along with dragon flies, bumble bees etc. IM thinking oh hell NO you do NOT. I grab my bug juice to go nuke it, when I get there I see that instead, NO they are not moths, the thing is FULL of Hummingbirds Little green ones, blue/purple ones. they were darting all over the place. How awesome is that !!

needless to say the poison went right away into the closet, and I watched them, i tried to get a picture but they are timid little things.,

Is there a poison I can use to kill caterpillars yet won't hurt any hummers that anyone can recommend. When it comes to this, I want something that actually WORKS, not this organic crap that's useless.

Aaron

BT is not useless. If it isn't working, try using bottled water or rainwater to dilute (i.e. not city water), and shake the bottle before measuring it out. Keep treating every week.

 

[TJAnonymous]

picked the last of the wild raspberries, the rest is for the chickens. I have enough for a dozen pints of jam.
I planted two rows of late summer sugar peas. Lots of male flowers on squash; still no fruiting but others in my region are having similar issues.

I wish our wild raspberries were useful. They are super bitter though. Even the birds won't eat them...

 

[NorthwoodsChick]

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I wish our wild raspberries were useful. They are super bitter though. Even the birds won't eat them...

I must be in a lucky spot. prob a good 20 acres of wild raspberry, blackberry and strawberry. I never get to the strawberry in time

 

[CaroleW]

Will this work with pepperoncinos? They are a bit spicy too but much smaller than Jalapeños

The recipe I've used said you can use any kind of hot pepper. I'd think the pepperoncinos would be a little tame though IDK.

 

[TJAnonymous]

The recipe I've used said you can use any kind of hot pepper. I'd think the pepperoncinos would be a little tame though IDK.

For whatever reason, my pepperoncinos are spicy... Maybe they cross pollinated with the Tabasco peppers next to them? I'm not sure....

 

[TJAnonymous]

My chickens were all raising a ruckus a little bit ago. There's no way I can make it out to the coop to check on them and no one else is home right now. I'm hoping they were just being dramatic...

 

[BullChick]

Will this work with pepperoncinos? They are a bit spicy too but much smaller than Jalapeños

I’d try it. I’m drooling thinking about it!

 

[Sueby]

Got a recipe for that? I like some kick too

https://pomonapectin.com/strawberry-jalapeno-jam/
This is the one I used, I used all jalapenos, no sweet peppers. I doubled the recipe & used half the sugar (but I used allulose, not sugar) - I like to taste the jam, not the sweet so much. I find most jam way too sweet which is why I love Pomona pectin.

Watered seeds in the garden this morning. Okra isn't quite ready to pick, so I'll leave it for tomorrow.

I had fake eggs in the chicken coop, one in each box. This morning when I went out I noticed that the eggs weren't in the box. I found one, very much destroyed, on the ground in front of the box. Very curious....

Interesting, keep an eye out there! I have a raccoon trying to get in my coop. He hasn't been successful yet, but he keeps trying. I'm going to get some secondary latches tomorrow, I don't want to catch & dispatch if I don't have to.

@BullChick - I love cowboy candy. I stopped at the farm stand today & asked when they thought the jalapenos would be coming in. I plan to make some for us. DH loves the leftover juice, I can it & he puts it on everything! It's great as a chicken marinade.

 

[Sueby]

The recipe I've used said you can use any kind of hot pepper. I'd think the pepperoncinos would be a little tame though IDK.

Funny, I saw some at the stand & thought about trying some with habeneros mixed in!

 

[Sueby]

I drove by a couple big farms today & all I saw was fields of wiled plants, I'm not sure why, but maybe their wells can't handle watering. We are 11 inches short on rain now. Towns are implementing water bans & I've seen a bunch of trees losing their leaves from lack of water. We are on a shared well with 30 others & they were drilling a new well today - that can't be a good sign, water wise or wallet wise! We really need some rain. I hate to say it, but a couple tropical storms are the only thing that would help at this point. It's bad here.