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Thread #70286   Message #1221676
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
08-Jul-04 - 05:08 PM
Thread Name: BS: Summer 2004--Yard & Garden
Subject: RE: BS: Summer 2004--Yard & Garden
I am contemplating writing a children's book (rated "X" for violence) called The Big Green Splot. It will deal with the huge slippery spots that occur when you capture and smash tomato horn worms, those huge green pendulous green (did I mention green?) softbodied green leaf-eating-and-pooping-all-over-the-plant machines that I found in the garden yesterday. Yech!

I sprayed BT at dusk--that oughta give them a belly ache! (I managed to find and remove a half-dozen of the things in the front yard--the way they selectively denude a few branches here and there they are really hard to spot. And they're so green! They are, not surprisingly, the exact color of the leaves they are devouring.)

Other than that, tons of tomatoes, lots of chard, and a few melons and squash getting ready to pick soon.

SRS