Ladies, What Do You Call 'Em?
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If you can't beat em....just eat 'em
Comments (9)A lot of the fear of this is just cultural. I'm sure our ancestors prior to the discovery of the first pesticides, arsenic compounds in the 19th century, ate a LOT of wormy fruit, either directly or indirectly in processed form, and didn't give it much second thought. And, I'm sure that in many poor countries around the world, it's still the norm, not the exception, to have to eat things untreated with pesticides. Most of those people no doubt also just "eat around" the parts that are too damaged to be edible. They probably turn the bad stuff into food indirectly by feeding it to chickens, pigs, goats, or whatever which then provides a human food source. And, of course, there are many cultures around the world that directly eat and enjoy insects. Aborigines in Australia ate many, many kinds of insects. In Thailand, giant water bugs, dipped in batter and deep fried, are a gourmet delicacy and are becoming very expensive, the supply being limited due to overharvesting, pesticide runoff, etc. I also recently saw an episode of Rick Bayliss' PBS series 'Mexico One Plate at a Time' where he was in a very exclusive restaurant in Mexico city that was serving fried grasshoppers. Really, any time you eat most commercially processed foods of plant origin, such as breads, juices, etc., you are getting trace amounts of insect proteins. The federal government sets allowable levels of insect matter in all kinds of foodstuffs. "Zero" just isn't realistically attainable in a cost-effective way. Here is a link to an FDA publication which shows the allowable level of contamination of various types of things in certain foods. Some of it may be higher than many people know -- for example, 4% of cocoa beans can be infested and still be sold in the US food trade. Canned tomatoes can have no more than 2 fruit fly larvae per 500 gram (slightly larger than a pound) can. Ground nutmeg can have no more than 100 insect fragments per 10 grams. Here is a link that might be useful: FDA guide to allowable contamination levels in food....See Morehelp how do you keep em'standing?
Comments (9)Thank you Tom. I do have the Double Ditch you pictured - and it has multiplied like crazy. I have spread it into my beds! It was originally given to me from my DH uncle from PA. I thought he called it a Ruffled daylilly. He is a farmer from way, way back - has an incredible green thumb and an absolutely gorgeous yard. He started collecting Daylillies about 10 yrs ago - seeking out particular ones. He is retired and has the time (and love) to do this! I guess I will wait until next spring to ID these and start moving them onto that dreaded hillside. I actually think of this particular "Ruffled" as special - just because he gave it to me - and point it out to my DH each year!! Thanks for the picture....See More'round here, we call 'em CEDAR....a rant
Comments (10)Our "cedar" story... Going on a few decades ago, we lived briefly in a house in Northwest Florida. The place needed some sprucing-up (bad pun, maybe). We planted a patch of azaleas around a small cluster of trees that were native to that area. In one of the azalea pots, unbeknownst to us, was a little sprout of a "cedar." About a year or two after planting the azalea, the sapling became obvious. We still lived there at the time the little tree got noticeable. DW wanted me to pull it out. I resisted, saying something like, "Hey, if it wants to grow, give it a chance. Those things are evergreens and their foliage is thicker than that of the native pines. I've seen mature specimens of them and they look great." She pestered me time and again, but I never budged. We moved. Family after family has occupied that house over the years since. We have relatives in that area so we still visit there now and then. We always go down memory lane and look at that house when we visit. Hurricanes, droughts and floods have come and gone. The tree is still there, and it is a BEAUTY! All but one of the native trees in the cluster have succumbed. Many of the azaleas we planted in that patch are gone - a few are still there and bloom great each late winter. But that "cedar" is one of the distinctive trees in that whole neighborhood. I don't believe I have seen another one like it for miles around. No sign of other baby junipers, though, so I guess ours was a boy....See MoreWhat would you do? Lady Banks/clematis issue
Comments (4)I just took out two giant lady banks roses that were totally distroying the fence. They only bloomed for 3 weeks out of the year and the monster had big canes growing through the wooden fence. I'm replacing them with something that will bloom longer and not be so hard to control....See Morestacey_mb
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