Where do the leeches come from???
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Iron leeching into the soil from Sedona Red flagstone
Comments (3)Second that. Many red rocks and red soils only have a couple percent iron anyway, it just looks like more. It is not going to leach out of rock at any appreciable speed anyway. All soil is derived from weathered rock. Hey, if plants didn't grow around rocks there wouldn't be any plants....See MoreWhere the heck do mealy bogs come from?
Comments (3)They come from their mothers of course. Some mealybugs are born live, others hatch from eggs. Fossilized remains of them have been found in Hispaniola, so maybe they came to North American from there. Mealybugs are unarmored scale insects and are related to aphids and white flies. They generally are not that hard to control, and you have several options. You can swipe/dab their bodies with a Q-tip dipped in rubbing alcohol. You can spray them with insecticidal soap. You can spray them with a homemade spray consisting of 50% rubbing alcohol, 49% water and 1% detergent or soap. Ladybugs will eat them, and you even can buy a specific species of ladybug called a mealybug destroyer which can be used to control them, though usually mealybug destroyers work best in a greenhouse where they are a captive audience, so to speak, and not quite as well when released outdoors where they can move around and go where they want, which might not be where you want them to be. You also can use the standard remedy for scale insects, which is to spray the plants during the dormant season with horticultural oil often referred to as dormant oil. There also is a highly refined super lightweight form of dormant oil made to use during the growing season. It usually is referred to as a summerweight oil. If I was going to use that summer oil on a plant, I'd test it on one leaf first and wait 24 hours to see if it damaged the leaf before I sprayed it on the rest of the plant. In our climate, even superfine summerweight oil sometimes can burn foliage so must be used carefully and sparingly. Sometimes, after you've sprayed them, they die within a day or two but don't fall off the plant so you may have to come back a day or two later and wipe them off or wash them off the plants. Then, watch carefully for new ones to appear in case there were eggs laid someplace that survived being sprayed. I've had them on plants once or twice and just left them alone so the ladybugs would have the chance to gobble them up, which they apparently did. Within a week of me seeing the mealybugs, they all were gone....See MoreTortillas - where do yours come from - do you make your own?
Comments (23)Oops! I seem to have forgotten that I started this thread, but the responses have been very helpful. I think I will definitely to go El Camaguey and buy a tortilla press, although I don't think it has a stainless steel surface like Ann's, which would be nice. I do keep dry masa on hand, but I also keep fresh masa in the freezer - for making what I thought were empanadas, but which are probably quesadillas, at least as they are made in Mexico, and deep fried. As for flour tortillas, since I've found the whole grain tortillas in the market, I probably won't be making too many of those again, although I might want to experiment with some of the whole grain flours I have. I don't especially like tortillas made with all white flour, and corn tortillas are my favorite. When I first visited Vancouver for a long visit (1978 or so), I was shocked that I could not find fresh corn tortillas in the grocery stores (I did find frozen ones, but did not consider that acceptable). At that time, I practically lived on soft tacos (that I made myself, often with tofu), and so I had to make an adjustment. I think I bought some whole wheat crackers instead. I think I will try to find some Hispanic markets, although there aren't any in my immediate neighborhood. There are some in neighboring Mar Vista (where Scott lives), which is less than 2 miles from here. There are several places to buy fresh tamales, but they don't sell tortillas. Anyway, I think I will keep looking and also get the tortilla press. Lars...See MoreWhere do trees that have variegated leaves come from?
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