High altitude? Arid region? Both? Spring snow followed by 90 heat common? Ever got a sun burn and frost bite on the same day? Trying to garden in that wackiness???
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The organics haven't been sprayed with sprout inhibitors so that is why I went to the local hippy infested health food store. In fact I did them a favor by intentionally grabbing out the taters that had already developed eyes :D
The chufa is growing well. It just looks like a pointy decorative grass. It hasn't minded our weird weather one bit. It doesn't seem to be bothering nearby plants at all. We had a few hard rains and some soil got washed away from the tops of one of the plants and there were some nice, plump...
I use it instead of noodles when I make lasagna. Just add a layer of the squash, baked and stringed out, where you would put the big noodles as you layer it together and bake as usual. You can also make individual lasagna pots and put the spaghetti squash on the bottom and cover with meat...
Exactly Lesa.
You don't have to become Amish to save money, improve your soil or grow a bit of your own meat. You look at the Amish model and see what makes sense to apply to your life. Of course, changing the way you do things reduces your dependency on an industrial food model, and that is...
De can disrupt it's breeding cycle. If the infestation is bad, though, I might resort to nukes :). Out here they don't just nibble at the leaves, they totally defoliate. I lost a whole crop of radishes to those darn things before I found a local source for DE.
I know what you mean about not being able to get pictures. There are bees on my thyme that are so small i thought they were flies or big gnats! Then I looked really close and noticed they were black with silver stripes.