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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on August 16, 2013, 12:35:01 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/11594072
Oh my.
It's no wonder Grandma Judy's guardians--her children and grandchildren--don't like her posting on the internet.
grasswire (37,457 posts) Tue Aug 13, 2013, 01:37 AM
what critter is eating my basil and petunias??
My basil plants are pretty much turned into lace. Petunias have holes in the blossoms. Something is eating them. It isn't slugs.
Any ideas?
CrispyQ (16,462 posts) Tue Aug 13, 2013, 10:13 AM
1. Earwigs have feasted on my basil this year.
I've had issues with them in the past at the first of the season, but they have persisted this year.
grasswire (37,457 posts) Tue Aug 13, 2013, 11:44 AM
2. thanks for the clue
I suppose there's no stopping them.
beac (9,379 posts) Tue Aug 13, 2013, 05:10 PM
3. Try garlic spray.
I've used Mosquito Barrier (they also make a less-strong version called Garlic Barrier, but I prefer the MB) with great success. The pests taste the garlic and leave your plants alone but it doesn't impact the taste for humans (assuming you are eating the basil but NOT the petunias ).
http://www.mosquitobarrier.com/
NRaleighLiberal (29,807 posts) Wed Aug 14, 2013, 11:05 PM
4. Japanese Beetles can do a number on basil as well, but they are obvious....
grasswire (37,457 posts) Wed Aug 14, 2013, 11:49 PM
5. well I have given up on them for the year...
....and will have to get my basil at farmers market. Grrr!
NRaleighLiberal (29,807 posts) Wed Aug 14, 2013, 11:50 PM
6. too bad you weren't my neighbor - I have more than I know what to do with!
the deer found pretty much everything else in one of our gardens...but not the basil!
And now Grandma Judy in her addled senescence, wanders off-topic, forgetting the original one even though she started it:
grasswire (37,457 posts) Wed Aug 14, 2013, 11:54 PM
7. that's interesting
By the way, I have two tomato varieties that I haven't tasted yet. Somthing called "Stupice" and another called "Legend".
Can you predict the flavor for me? If they aren't full-flavored, I will probably use them as green maters. Of course, the sungold spoils us all, for flavor.
NRaleighLiberal (29,807 posts) Wed Aug 14, 2013, 11:56 PM
8. well, they are tomatoes - home grown ones - so that is a good thing!
Stupice is a good early variety while waiting for the big ones. I've not grown Legend, but from reading about it, sounds reasonably good.
I am pretty spoiled by some of the big time large ones this year - we had a short crop, lots of disease, but those we did pick had pretty spectacular flavor....alas, all gone!
grasswire (37,457 posts) Thu Aug 15, 2013, 12:00 AM
9. mine are just coming on
a few red ones, some ripe sungolds, and lots of greens.
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grasswire (37,457 posts) Wed Aug 14, 2013, 11:54 PM
7. that's interesting
By the way, I have two tomato varieties that I haven't tasted yet. Somthing called "Stupice" and another called "Legend".
Can you predict the flavor for me? If they aren't full-flavored, I will probably use them as green maters. Of course, the sungold spoils us all, for flavor.
She misspelled "Stupid". :hyper:
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DUmpmonkeys are so comically predictable!
DUmp cred would take a serious hit if they ever admitted to using a bug killer in their garden.
In poor addled grasswipe Judy Smith's case, the idea of a garden is funny.
Where does she find the patch of dirt for a garden? Some neighbor's devil strip? Dirt in the edge of the alley behind her abandoned bodega?
Poor addled grasswipe Judy's world is covered in asphalt and concrete.
There is no garden, and hasn't been since her glory days, when she was squatting in the bonus room over the garage on a former friend's "farmette".
Her kids, all six or seven generations of them, are humiliated again.
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I thought that ear-wigs were only to be found in Vermontese restaurants...
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I thought that ear-wigs were only to be found in Vermontese restaurants...
OK...Who's mole is CrispyQ.