Ducks4you for 2022

[ducks4you]

THIS is why I need the roses, but roses aren't available right now. Guess If I find a few I will plant them with the grapes, OR wait until next year. I will need to move them until the Japanese beetles go away. GLAD I haven't planted them yet!!

 

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Here are the other two. I gave them ALL a good soaking today. Think they will move to the "herb garden" for a couple of weeks. The existing grapes can handle this, but these little ones Don't have that many leaves!

 

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Can't put it off any longer--Gotta transplant my reserve tomatoes or kill 'em. Here are the ones going in today around the cistern.

 

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Some potbound plants did ok sitting in water. Some didn't. This thyme almost died, but I transplanted it, brought it to the porch, and it is growing leaves bc of some TLC. Goes in the ground next month.

 

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Living with Japanese Beetles

It's about that time of year, time for Japanese beetles...

extension.illinois.edu

• If you don't want to fight the beetles you can try growing plants that are unattractive to them. Yes, they do exist! Some of these plants include columbine, begonia, dogwood, forsythia, holly, impatiens, lilacs, hosta, and violets.

Maybe they should be moved over to the south yard and next to my holly and lilac, TODAY, they will be visiting my hosta, for tea...or something...

 

[ducks4you]

6 WEEKS OF THESE NASTY BUGS

9 Ways to Rid Your Garden of Japanese Beetles

Here's how to get rid of Japanese beetles without resorting to chemical insecticides. Don't let these pests wreak havoc in your garden!

www.bobvila.com

I guess I will have to fill a small bucket with soapy water. You put it underneath where they are feeding, and knock them into it. They are like houseflies. They move when they see you about to hit them, exCEPT they will drop down to the ground, crawl a little bit, they fly up to feed more.
I also have NEEM OIL to try.

They are REALLY bad this year.

 

[heirloomgal]

6 WEEKS OF THESE NASTY BUGS

9 Ways to Rid Your Garden of Japanese Beetles

Here's how to get rid of Japanese beetles without resorting to chemical insecticides. Don't let these pests wreak havoc in your garden!

www.bobvila.com

I guess I will have to fill a small bucket with soapy water. You put it underneath where they are feeding, and knock them into it. They are like houseflies. They move when they see you about to hit them, exCEPT they will drop down to the ground, crawl a little bit, they fly up to feed more.
I also have NEEM OIL to try.

They are REALLY bad this year.

I use need oil any time I have a bug issue, it works for EVERYTHING and is safe. I've even used it as a soil drench and it really worked for that too. I consider it a miracle cure for near everything. It costs about 20 bucks a bottle, though you gotta buy some Castille soap to emulsify it. I guess you could use other soaps too, I just haven't tried others besides Dr. Bronner's. Doesn't smell bad either, though it does have particular 'aroma'.

 

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In one day I went from 24 tomatoes in the ground to 37. I Still have over 10 reserves that are small. The extras were 1 Roma, and 2 San Marinos, that I bought, and the rest were Cherokee Purple, the ones living in the fish tank on the porch. VERY leggy. They are caged, watered, and buried as deep as I had the energy to do today.
They are located on the south side of the cistern, with sweet peppers on the east and west. I moved my soaker hose there today and soaked them all.
Can't have too many tomatoes!!
(I will be sick of canning by September if they all produce!)

 

[heirloomgal]

Can't have too many tomatoes!!

SO TRUE!

 

[ducks4you]

Grape TLC. Moved the hardest hit to the porch until the beetles die off. Bless it's heart--Still trying to grow more leaves. SOOOOO glad that they weren't planted!!! I am going to move the other two back next to the house and keep an eye on them.