Your Top 3 most hated shrubs
Logan L Johnson
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Comments (68)I've had my flower beds for 10 years and I'm going to have to google most of what everyone is wanting just to see what they are and what they look like. My top 5 right now is 1. Spuria Irises any color. 2. Oriental Lilies 3. Asiatic Lilies 4. Flowers that bloom until the first frost. 5. Different color day lilies I have no idea the names of the ones I have. I've been trying to put a name to them but so many of them look alike. I am cleaning off my hillside and have black raspberry vines if anyone is interested. I also have Purple Wisteria, old fashioned purple lilac bushes, and a weeping willow tree that I can take starts from get them rooted and send. I don't like taking starts from those unless someone wants them. I've never shipped a plant so I may need some assistance on how the best way is to ship....See MoreWhat do cucumber beetles hate most?
Comments (17)Scott Make sure the holes are large enough at the bottom of the cup to allow the odor to flow outward. Last year one gardener was disappointed because she used ground-up cloves (instead of clove oil) and Sevin in cups with lids and side-holes, and she said it didn't work at all. Maybe it was the ground-up cloves that didn't work. But it might have been that the holes didn't allow much of the odor to waft out, too. I suppose that any opening large enough to allow enough air movement so the beetles sense the attractant is going to let the weather in as well. A feeder on the order of a hummingbird feeder with large holes at the bottom would probably be ideal, but of course nothing red that would attract those little birdies! More simply, I found that no lids, but a cup with an open top holding about a tablespoon of the tayuya powder and just enough insecticide-strength Seven to make a soup did just fine. If it rains and dilutes the mixture, just replace it with a new mixture when you know it's stopped raining for a while. The purpose is to make SURE the beetles know the stuff is there for the taking! As you know, they can work fast to chew up your cucurbit plants, so the sooner they're dead, the better. One of the links above mentions that you can use the safe for humans #28 Red Dye instead of Sevin as the insecticide. It works quite differently than Sevin but is fatal for the beetles, too. Apparently in the beetles' bodies, it's photo-reactive in the sun and destroys the beetles' tissues from within. But I sure don't know where to get #28 Red Dye!...See MoreYour most hated pest this season (besides Japanese beetles)
Comments (23)Oriental beetles. These things - every stinking year - just decimate my daisies and coneflowers, to the point where I'm considering ripping them out. They eat the darn things before they even bloom. They like daylilies too, but with the one-day bloom there is not as much damage done. My coneflowers and daisies look constantly dirty and ratty thanks to these disgusting things. Oh, and they get caught in my hair too. Yuck. Voles are also high on my list, although this year while I have tons more mole tunnels and holes, there has not been as much vole damage. Maybe the voles are finally moving out while the moles are moving in. I can definitely live with mole tunnels in the so-called lawn as long as my plants aren't being eaten from underground! I think Ken is right - the bug population seems to be lower this year than usual. My potatoes are untouched (although perhaps the late planting helped with that), the JB damage was minimal, even though that's not usually a big problem for me anyway, and in general I haven't had too many bug problems this season. :) Dee...See MoreWhat 3 pots/pans are most important to your everyday cooking?
Comments (11)1. Large (12"?) saut� pan, aluminium with stainless steel interior, pretty tall sides and helper handle, a KitchenAid that my second mom found at a flea market for $15-ish and decided I needed. Uses: general frying, braising, saut�ing. A couple times each year I take a buffing pad, drill, and metal polish, shine the interior to a mirror, the pan is slick like ice for awhile. 2. Medium (10"?) cast iron pan, some cheapo Taiwanese no-namer, that the same friend got for me at the same market for the same price. Uses: searing, stirfrying, general frying. So easy to clean, nothing ever sticks, happiest when it's smoking. 3. 7 qt Kuhn Rikon pressure cooker, bought with the encouragement of the CF, and opened whole new vistas through the magic of time compression. Uses: slow cooking fast, fast cooking faster, stocks, stews, pot roasts, legumes, grains, also works as an everyday deep pot. If I was putting together a traveling kitchen, I might bring the smaller pressure cooker and a smaller saut� pan, just depends on space restrictions....See MoreSara Malone Zone 9b
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