Three sisters garden, week 9

 

My three sisters garden is coming along. The corn is doing well, the
beans have been eaten by insects, and I have a few melon and squash
plants. I've started to spray the garden with a mixture of Ivory Liquid
and corn oil, we'll see if that helps.

Here is a link to pictures of the garden,

http://picasaweb.google.com/bjoshuarosen/Garden_week_9?feat=directlink

 

On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:52:28 -0700, Billy wrote:


I can't say for sure. I don't see any snails but that doesn't mean that
they aren't the cause, I know I have snails in the backyard because in
the days when I had an outdoor cat I would find snails on his water dish.

I'll run down to Agway and see if they have any iron phosphate, thanks
for the suggestion.

 

On 28 Jun 2009 18:39:24 GMT, General Schvantzkoph


Don't you have to protect your blueberries from the critters, too?

This is the first year in a long time that *we* have actually enjoyed
our blueberries rather than provide them to the local fauna food
pantry.

We built a full enclosure around and over the bushes. Just angle iron
and netting.  Worked like a charm, although I have to say that we get
birds, groundhogs, squirrels, raccoons, etc, and no deer in the
backyard (back is fenced well), although a similar structure around
the tulip beds up front did keep the deer from eating them.

We do get bears around here, though, and I assume none were attracted
to the berries, as the enclosure would never have deterred bears.

Something ate all the melon plants this weekend and started nibbling
on a few of the tomato plants, too. Even the groundhogs avoid the
tomato plants. I need to set up a camera...or a shotgun, maybe.

Boron

 

On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:10:44 -0400, Boron Elgar wrote:



I have a net enclosing the blueberry bushes.

 

the berries, as the enclosure would never have deterred bears.

I've been using coyote and fox urine this year. I usually have a
groundhog problem but I haven't seen any since I started using the urine.
This isn't proof that it works, it's possible that the groundhog was
eaten by an actual coyote, they have become much more plentiful in recent
years.