The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #118665 Message #2650628
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
07-Jun-09 - 01:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: Gardening, 2009
Subject: RE: BS: Gardening, 2009
I collected some wild seeds in the prairie across the road while out walking the dogs this morning. I'll use them in the farthest back part of the yard, see what happens. Yucca and milkweed. I'd love to attract butterflies back there, and have the evergreen bases of the yucca.
I needed to do some surgical spraying of BT this morning (trying to avoid butterflies) because the cannas have begun to look like a Havana cigar factory with all of those fat rolled up leaves. I've pulled them apart several times, but today I pulled apart and I went through the stand with a folliar feeding mix that included some BT. I also sprayed around the tomatoes; I'd love to head off the tobacco horn worms. They're like the John Deere clearing bug of the garden (and there is a reason why the competition is named Caterpillar, perhaps?)
Janie, I'll let you know in a couple of days if I was successful in planting beans from the starter tray. I'll put out bowls of beer tonight to round up the snails and clear the way for planting the next day.
SRS