On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 03:17:05 -0600, Omelet
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Jangchub wrote:

I don't intentionally kill anything. I do kill billions of things
daily by breathing, but never intentionally. I guess that's my point.
'Heavenly Blue' is a variety of MG. I also have 'Flying Saucers,' and
others. Can't get enough. Maybe snails or slugs got to them, but
they definitely got to them one way or the other. My neighbor was
very upset last year when she didn't have my MG's spilling over her
side of the fence.

Odd.


I find that morning glories are one of the FASTEST sprouting and growing
seeds I've ever done!

You may want to look at your potting mix???

Sorry, I've just never, ever had a problem with MG's and pillbugs. :-)

Maybe there is not enough for them to eat? G

Try feeding them if you don't want to kill them.

That is actually a viable alternative. I've read many things about
offering alternative plants to "pests" so they leave your wanted plants
alone.

Google for "companion planting".

For instance, I offer parsley and fennel to the baby swallowtail
butterflies so they will leave my dill weed alone. I move any
caterpillars that are on the wrong plants to the right ones... I'm not a
huge fennel fan and don't use a lot of parsley, plus parsley grows well
and prolifically so it's easy to spare the garden space.

I don't like to kill butterflies...

Now if I could just find something for the ones that infest my Passion
vines. ;-( I'm going to have to use BT this year for those. They
infested them so heavily, it almost killed the vines. They are in
horrible condition and they never even bloomed last year...

I think once I can get the vines going really well, it'll work out tho'.

I have been gardening for over 30 years. In Texas I've been gardening
for 14 years. My garden is registered both with Texas Department of
Parks and Wildlife as well as the World Wildlife Foundation. There
was nothing in our yard when we moved here. Just two seasons after we
started gardening our garden was on Central Texas Gardener television
show. I do think I know what I'm doing.

I was also a professional grower up in New York, managed a large
nursery where I was the director of the greenhouse operation. So, I
truly do know how to garden and something is eating my MG seedlings.
I started them many weeks ago. I'm letting them get really beefy
before I put them in the ground so they have a better chance. I also
have a perennial morning glory which strangled my entire yard last
summer. I hope that is gone. I don't see signs of it, yet. But, if
it comes up I will yank it out with verve!

Passion vines should recover quickly after being completely
defoliated. Caterpillars eating the foliage shouldn't prevent them
from flowering. Fertilization may not be done correctly. Also, I
give added nitrogen to passiflora so they put on a lot of foliage
during the migration and I up the phosphorous when the foliage starts
to grow again. I have P. incense and mine is unstopable. It also
comes up many dozens of feet away from the original plant, so it is
kind of invasive in that regard.