On 06/21/2016 08:01 AM, George Shirley wrote:
Stink bugs are messing up the tomatoes big time. Put out some containers
of water under each bush this morning, hoping the !@#$ bugs drown. Put a
little cooking oil in each container, also hoping that keeps the bugs
from getting away. We shall see.

Picked another small bucket of crowder peas this morning. Things seem to
become ripe overnight but they sure shuck easy, a sort of zipper pea is
what this variety is. Pop one end, pull down and the hull just opens up.
Makes the job much easier.

Harvested another batch of figs, seems that about a dozen figs ripen
each morning. Miz Anne put up two pints of fig jam yesterday and
probably will do another small batch tomorrow or the next day. I alter
the "So Easy to Preserve" recipe based on number of figs to be used.
Works pretty good as long as we follow the recipe change.

Going to be hot again today, in the low nineties the weather folk say,
the skies are cloudy with dark clouds and a promise of rain is in sight.

George

Hi George,

Did you ever figure out a management method? I have an
infestation of earwigs. They are mowing down everything
that sprouts. (****ed me off when I see them carrying away
fresh sprout leaves.)

I have been spraying them with chrysanthemum by the
hundreds, but there is inexhaustible supply. They are ruining
my garden this year and we only have a tiny growing window
in Northern Nevada.

I am going to fire up my weeds killer pump up canister with
dish soap and Cayenne powder this evening. They like it
damp. So, lets add a little soap to their bathing experience!

Trouble is, I kill 50 of them and a half hour later, I
have to kill 50 more. They keep coming and coming and
coming!

They now ignore garlic powder.

I made this beautiful sliced bed in the yard for
Rose radishes. Took me about 2 hours of hacking and
removing rocks to make about 5 foot by 1-1/2 wide
by 1 deep.

Filled with vegi scraps from the table and weeds.
Then peat moss and dirt I dug up, sans rocks. Planted
three rows of radishes. And they sprouted beautifully.
Now they are half gone and the patch is seething
with earwigs.

AAAAHHHHHH!!!

-T