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Post by binnylou on Jun 15, 2021 16:17:20 GMT -5
Not a great day…came in to treat a wasp sting. It’s too hot to wear long pants/long sleeves.
At least he wasn’t in my underwear.
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Post by desertwoman on Jun 15, 2021 18:04:37 GMT -5
Maybe it's time to wear a skirt or garden dress , commando style binnylou,
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Post by claude on Jun 15, 2021 18:32:54 GMT -5
Binny...lmao..speaking from experience? Lolololo. I’m laughing so hard I’m crying..One dropped on my shoulder while I was shaking out a towel on the deck outside...those suckers HURT.
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Post by binnylou on Jun 15, 2021 18:54:41 GMT -5
claude, he gave me a pretty good welt on my arm…the wasp, that is. I put some lavender essential oil on the sting site and that calmed it.
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Post by binnylou on Jun 15, 2021 18:56:28 GMT -5
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Post by reuben on Jul 10, 2021 16:42:48 GMT -5
Not an insect, disease, or weed, but what about snails? They had no shells, so maybe technically slugs, but they had antennae.
I found two of them today when turning over a patch and threw them into the woods on general principles? Good? Bad? Indifferent?
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Post by gardendmpls on Jul 11, 2021 0:54:49 GMT -5
Slugs are mollusks with internal vestigial shells. They have two pairs of tentacles, the lower for smelling and the upper for detecting light. You may have mistaken these eyes for antennae. I toss them to the chickens who eat them and then wipe their beaks on the ground with disgust, trying to remove the sticky mucus. Slugs and snails can do a lot of damage. Maybe we should add "mollusks" to the title of this thread.
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Post by claude on Jul 11, 2021 5:56:02 GMT -5
Grandson found a huge slug on the hostas and touching w a stick wasn’t enough so he picked it up and got slimed all over his chubby hand.. came over to me with disgust as he tried to rub it off w his other hand and was covered w coupus amounts of slime and I needed to use a wipe to remove it before going inside to wash. Discovered stink fungi ..bright orange in the area bordering the woods. This time he was satisfied w exploring w a stick. 😂
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Post by Wheelgarden on Jul 15, 2021 18:06:02 GMT -5
I finally (nah...temporarily) have had the hated quackgrass and perennial grass under control for the past couple of years. Even with my recent low-till/no-till methods (pats self on back). Mulch, mulch, mulch, then mulch some more!
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Post by binnylou on Jul 17, 2021 13:14:35 GMT -5
Late yesterday, I sprinkled Sluggo bait beneath my collards/kale plants. I checked beneath the collards this morning and the bait is gone. Does it just disappear/melt into the mulch. Or do I really have that many slugs/snails?
I’ve used this product previously, but didn’t check on it so quickly. We didn’t have overnight rain.
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Post by Wheelgarden on Jul 19, 2021 14:05:33 GMT -5
My bestest, most lush and loaded Rutgers tomato went grey and limp overnight. I suspect late blight. I'll at least have a bunch of green tomatoes, so there's that. Dag-nabbit.
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Post by raphanus on Jul 31, 2021 18:57:49 GMT -5
My worst pest is rollie pollies / pill bugs. Also mice. Pickleworm moth. Cucurbit powdery mildew. Bermudagrass, goose grass, dollarweed, nutsedge, prickly sida, chamberbitter / garden bane, mint
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Post by spike2 on Aug 1, 2021 14:38:52 GMT -5
Lesson of the day: If an earwig should find his/her way in to your underwear, they come out fighting and pinching. Expect pain. I feel like there are some exciting details that have been left out of this story.
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Post by binnylou on Aug 1, 2021 14:53:56 GMT -5
Now spike2, I’m sure that at this point in your life, you still have an active imagination. Let it roll…’Nuff said.
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Post by desertwoman on Aug 1, 2021 16:18:27 GMT -5
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