FarmI wrote:
>>
>> It is interesting to see the seasonal variation that you get.
> It is indeed. I love nearly all the wildlife (except snakes) but
> they can sure be a real pain in the bum for gardeners.
> You can
>> understand why people speak of 'plagues' of things. I mean other
>> than the really obvious plagues such as locusts.
> Right now I have a plague of mites in my chookpen. Truly,
> horrifyingly disgusting. I've had to move the 2 remaining chooks and
> thier one chicken into a temporaray pen or they'd be eaten alive. I'm
> going into the old pen cleaning and fumigating covered in Bushman
> Repellant and then climbing fully clothed into the shower. It gives
> me the itches just thinking about it.
As a boy (strictly a city boy then) I was sent to catch some chooks and to
put them into a new pen. When I came back with my skin crawling nobody
would come near me, they all thought it was a hoot.
> BTW, We've used Molasses and water in the vineyard to stop the
> grasshoppers and it seems to have worked.
That's interesting I have some of them right now. How do you do it? What
effect does the 'lasses have?
>> A new tomato cultivar, yellow pear, is proving a winner as a salad
>> vege. They are about 4cm long and yellow when ripe and shaped like a
>> pear (duh!).
> I don't know those. Did you plant them from seed and if so, where
> did you get the seed?
I am not 100% sure but it could have been Diggers Club, their catalog is on
their web site.
David
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>> It is interesting to see the seasonal variation that you get.
> It is indeed. I love nearly all the wildlife (except snakes) but
> they can sure be a real pain in the bum for gardeners.
> You can
>> understand why people speak of 'plagues' of things. I mean other
>> than the really obvious plagues such as locusts.
> Right now I have a plague of mites in my chookpen. Truly,
> horrifyingly disgusting. I've had to move the 2 remaining chooks and
> thier one chicken into a temporaray pen or they'd be eaten alive. I'm
> going into the old pen cleaning and fumigating covered in Bushman
> Repellant and then climbing fully clothed into the shower. It gives
> me the itches just thinking about it.