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Keep an eye on the weather. If a heavy rain is forecast get out there and pick them; otherwise no hurry.

I never have trouble with wasps or bees since I am no threat to them. Yellowjackets on the other hand just seem to want to pick a fight with me.

Mullein has one flaw. It only grows in open areas like meadows. That isn't where you head in an emergency.

I doubt anyone ever actually used corn cobs. You may as well use a rasp. The old joke was you used two red corn cobs and one white one. You used the first red cob then used the white cob to see if you needed the other red one.

Both the Indians and cowboys actually used it as toilet paper. Because of the soft fuzz it was easier on the derrire than most other leaves. Another traditional use for it was to use the leaves in the bottom of your shoes to avoid sore feet on long walks. The dried stalks are also favorites in...

You will more than likely have mushrooms popping up when it matures, The threads are actually the fungus, Mushrooms correspond to the flowers in the higher plants. They bear the spores for new plants. Once the mushrooms show up you will be able to identify it. If you bought it more than likely...

TIP. If you want to get rid of gophers never let your kids find out they'll pop their heads up and eat bread out of your hand. :old

I've eaten many a woodchuck and they are quite tasty. I'd have to be pretty hungry to try a gopher. :idunno

Looking for them with a flashlight at night doesn't work too well either. As soon as the light hits them they curl up and drop to the ground and since they blend in with soil they are hard to spot even if they are large.

That damage looks very familiar. I'm almost certain what you have is a cutworm or army worm. They bury themselves just under the soil in daytime and come out at night to feed. They are especially fond of any plant in the cole (cabbage) family such as broccoli, cauliflower etc. You might get...

Woodchucks would be a rare sight in California south of San Francisco. Usually they are found in the North East of the Rockies.

Be careful with Spinosad. It's an excellent insect killer but it kills the predators along with the pests and the pests recover faster than the predators do. It's best used only on hot spots, not as a general garden spray.

Sabadilla was the only insecticide I ever saw that killed squash bugs in every stage of their life..

Sabadilla dust used to be the answer for hard to kill insects, It was made from ground up sabbadilla lilly seeds but they overharvested and had to close down the market to save the survivors so it's no longer available. It never was cheap because it was hand harvested in the wild.

Killing fish was the original purpose of rotenone. Natives in various tropical countries would use it to harvest fish that were not poisonous to eat. A natural source of rotenone is the vines of the Jicama tubers, The Phillipinos eat the pods but you have to know exactly when to harvest tem. If...

We used to have a black blister beetle in Oklahoma that would hit every year toward the end of the season. I finally had to accept the fact that I had to get my tomatoes early if I wanted some for canning. Those striped ones usually run along the ground in a horde eating everything green in...

I've heard of bean pie but I don't think I ever had any. My aunt used to make soda cracker pie and believe it or not you could hardly tell it from apple pie. I have no idea what the recipe called for other than soda crackers. I'm guessing cider.

Most pigs will not eat citrus of any type, or raw onions.

My sons wife was born with spina bifida so I'll never have any grandchildren but she is a wonderful Daughter in law and you can't have everything.

A Russian commissar and his wife were standing in Moscow Square, His wife said," I think is goink to snow Rudolph" He replied," Nyet. Is goink to rain" "I still say is goink to snow" He said," Rudolph the red knows rain dear"