- Free food for fish and chickens - 5 Updates
- Free food for fish and chickens - 1 Update
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: May 18 09:20PM -0700 On 05/18/2015 05:16 PM, Dennis wrote: > We just skip the middle man and let our chickens wander around and > find their own bugs. Haven't seen a grasshopper around the yard for > years. Wish they ate slugs, though. Don't ducks eat slugs? I went out last night with a flashlight in search of the worms that eat my petunias. I pulled the whole flower off and stepped on the little buggers, but tonight I took a hemostat :-) I wonder how long it takes for the systemic fertilizer/bugkiller pellets to dissolve and enter the plant... The gardeners plant hundreds of petunia plants across the street. Why don't the little bastards attack THEM? -- Cheers, Bev ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Todd Flanders' hobbies include being quiet on long rides, clapping to songs and diabetes. |
| "Bob F" <bobnospam@gmail.com>: May 19 06:04AM -0700 The Real Bev wrote: > little buggers, but tonight I took a hemostat :-) I wonder how long > it takes for the systemic fertilizer/bugkiller pellets to dissolve > and enter the plant... Such treatments of flowering plants will not be good for the bees in your area. |
| Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>: May 19 03:47PM -0400 |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: May 19 04:04PM -0700 On 05/19/2015 06:04 AM, Bob F wrote: >> it takes for the systemic fertilizer/bugkiller pellets to dissolve >> and enter the plant... > Such treatments of flowering plants will not be good for the bees in your area. I have two petunias and 5 chrysanthemums, all in pots. I'm pretty sure my impact will be minimal. -- Cheers, Bev -------------------------------------------------------------- "Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper." -- Quentin Crisp 1908 - 1999 |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: May 19 04:08PM -0700 On 05/19/2015 12:47 PM, Michael Black wrote: >> The gardeners plant hundreds of petunia plants across the street. Why don't >> the little bastards attack THEM? > Because they are all over at your place, eating your tastier flowers? The ones across the street (mall parking lot) are bigger, nicer, and lots more than I have. I talked to the gardener this morning, who was putting out snail pellets for the slugs that were eating THEIR petunias. Slugs are easy, it's the little caterpillars that I need to eliminate. Much easier to grab the little nasties with a hemostat. I have several sizes, including the biggest one I could find on line (cheaply made, but good enough) to pull the weeds out of my cactus plants. I don't see how people can survive without hemostats! -- Cheers, Bev -------------------------------------------------------------- "Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper." -- Quentin Crisp 1908 - 1999 |
| Derald <derald@invalid.net>: May 19 03:12PM -0400 >but tonight I took a hemostat :-) Do you mean like a clip, or what? -- D |
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