Getting Discouraged with Teas....
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Comments (29)""""I have to share my scary episode with using fish emulsion a couple of years ago. While planting some flower bulbs I decided to add some fish emulsion to the bottom of the planting hole to feed my bulbs and give the roots a good start. The next day I was showing the area to my young grandson and something had dug the bulbs up and thrown them out of the hole! We thought it was a territorial squirrel until we noticed the bear footprints all around the area! The prints also solved the mystery of what dug up and stole the fish bones and parts that I had buried in the garden after reading about the indians burying the fish bones to feed the soil! Needless to say I don't use fish emulsion now! Thanks again for the encouragement and tips, Betty""""""" ------- hi. I'm new to this thread and spotted this. Are you using fresh fish parts? left over after cleaning? that's what it sounds like. What the posters are referring to is a product that you buy, called Fish Emulsion. You dilute it and then apply as a spray or dunk. It's quit safe and not smelly. I'm very impressed with it. There are several brands. Betty if you are using fish parts, please consider the danger.. Years and years ago, a friend of my father did the very same thing. Later, when she was gardening (barefoot!) she stepped on one of these undiscomposed bones and she died.. jackjaw. (don't know how to spell the t...word. lol) Not to mention animals. Boy, if I did that i would have a yard full of squirrels and skunks. Now, on the bright side. I have Midwestern black soil. But it is of the wet 'puddy' variety, that morphs to brick when dry. I've been working this soil doing most of the suggestions that the board have mentioned. They all work. Only thing,it does take time.. I'm five years into it and just now I'm seeing real benefits! You'll get there! best wishes Sue...See Moretrying not to get discouraged
Comments (10)I'd also like to know what zone you're in too. I'm in Northern KY zone 6 and of my 1st 10 containers, all planted around March 10th all but one is up. Now I'm starting on more plants, just can't stop buying seeds, all of these were planted around the 15th of April and 4 of them have sprouts already! As I've gone on I've made my drainage holes bigger but my 1st group had fairly small wholes and still did well. Most of my jugs seem to stay fairly damp. I'd try some real hardy plants and see if you do any better. I just planted some Osteospermum so it'll be real interesting to see how long they take because I get the feeling they're fairly hard to grow from seed and lord knows that I'm not a pro when it comes to growing plants from seeds. Best of luck and don't give up. Strouper...See MoreGetting really discouraged. :c(
Comments (19)Ken; that was probably a male ruby; they're smaller than the females and do appear darker. Don't get discouraged! I've been there as well. I tried for years to attract them, I faithfully put the feeders out, although I was very unknowledgable about the whole process and didn't change the sugar water as frequently as I should have. I started growing sweet peas because I hear that the hummers liked them. One afternoon, I was stringing up some twine on the deck posts for them to climb, and a foot in front of me, a female stopped and checked me out. OMG was I in heaven! When she left, I ran inside, made a new batch of nectar and cleaned out the feeder. Luckily for me, she stayed, and brought a friend or two. I don't get many, but one year I did know of 7, because I spotted 3 females at the same time and 4 males at the same time. It could've been more, but I'll never know. It was also the first year I had gotten "buzzed"; stuck in the middle of a chase. What a thrill! It's been downhill ever since; the numbers have dwindled for me. I put my feeders out starting in mid April, although I don't normally see a hummer until Mothers Day weekend, when I had a male & female. Just as I thought they disappeared and moved on, they had shown back up again. I just got to witness my very first juvie this past weekend at the feeder. She was too short to drink/reach the ports (saucer feeder), but she just sat there, and didn't mind the humans gawking at her. She even let me walk away and get my camera AND take photos! I may be braindead, but I recall you grow alot of monarda, a magnet for them. I find it hard to believe you don't see more activity! My Jacob Kline has dwindled off but a few tall blooms are showing right now, and my boy hits it every day around dusk. That's when my activity picks up; the female comes around all day but the male likes dusk....See MoreI'm getting discouraged.... but I don't want to give up yet.
Comments (5)I think maybe? you started with too small quantity of worms. You said $30 for them. So you purchesed 1 1b probably or maybe 2 1bs at the most. I think you should have bought 4 or 5 pounds for one of those big bins. They will mutliply in the right conditions but you have to only feed them as they will eat. I would add some new bedding and feed them zukinie squash and pumpkin or butternut squash and some corn meal. But only give them a 1/2 cup every three or four days for 1 1b. at first and make sure they eat it before giving more. I always start out with cardboard and compost and dried leaves crumbled up and soak the leaves and cardbaord before adding to the compost. If you can buy more worms that would be good so you can feed them more. It does take more than one try for some of us to get the hang of things. That is not too much water in the bedding and not too much food to soon. Do you have any books on worms like " Worms eat my Garbage". I bet that book would help you out alot. Check your local library, it is an old book still available though. Good luck and keep posting your questions. I wish you had more people respond to help out. Bill C...See Moreoath5
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