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10 years ago 0 +0 / -0 6252

Both of you, yes we do for sure.

Davit

10 years ago 0 +0 / -0 2508

Yes we do..To each his own.

Red..

10 years ago 0 +0 / -0 4027

I used to regret a lot of things. Looking at things that "need" to be done, I was once feeling guilty about a lot of decisions I made. It was as if I expected myself to know everything when I was younger. But I find looking back often finds things in a different perspective. Today I was trying to fix something, and there are so many other things I "need" to do. But this was where I was drawn. And I find I need intellectual stimulation, irregardless of my "priorities". I guess after supper, I need some "me" time, and doing odd jobs around the house I can find that stimulation. I know too, that others would do what I'm doing faster, and with better methods, and tools, but I just was to choose my pace, and take my time, and savour what I'm doing, with pressure. There's something "wasteful" and irrational about hobbies, avocations that people have, but we all need a break, don't we?

10 years ago 0 +0 / -0 6252

Hugs

You might want to rephrase that, it sounds like you are going to make Pizza out of slugs.

Ashley, Good idea, sometimes just the idea of gardening or reading about it works. Dreaming works.

Davit

Who is supposed to be planting more potatoes right now.

10 years ago 0 +0 / -0 11213

Good idea to save your seedlings Hugs.

It looks like a lot of you really enjoy gardening. Gardening can be a very therapeutic activity as you all obviously know. Perhaps a thread should be started on Anxiety and the Therapeutic benefits of gardening so you all have a place to post about your gardening?

Ashley, Health Educator

Here to help :)

10 years ago 0 +0 / -0 4027

I'm afraid I attracted slugs to the richest part of the garden by leaving a bunch of twigs to dry over the winter.

Sad thing is I don't drink beer, and I'm afraid someone will see me looking for old beer cans in the laneway, while the village idiot looks for cigarette butts

I'll look up the recipe for slug pizza using yeast

10 years ago 0 +0 / -0 6252

The only bats we have here eat bugs so we put out boxes to encourage them to stay.

Could you disguise the smell of the fruit. Like we use Marigolds and dill for bugs in the garden. Mangoes though I think have a pretty strong smell so it might not work. What about baking soda or something they don't like the taste of. It washes off. Olive oil? I love Mangoes. I started one from a seed but it died when I transplanted it.

I'm too far north to have fruit pests. All we can grow is apples and sour cherries and plums. And Berries. Some times the goose berries get worms. Mostly it is the bears and deer we worry about.

We get slugs so I don't mulch, they live in it. I put down shingles and they crawl under them. Easy to wipe them off into a pail. They love yeast and will drown themselves in beer. A waste of good beer. We don't have snails. We do have loopers and other caterpillars. Rhotenone for them. Expensive though.

I tried netting on a cherry tree but found it too hard to put on. Robins fly under it too.

Davit

10 years ago 0 +0 / -0 177

Your little seedlings will love you for that Hugs.

The main problem I have are snails and slugs (which I absolutely hate!) and Brown Bronze Bugs that eat our citrus fruit and leave make an awful smell. Pyrethrum spray should take care of that though ;).

Another thing is fruit bats love mangoes, and even the white net (apparently they can see it and are less likely to get tangled when they come out at night) we put over our mango tree didn't stop them. Do either of you know how to stop fruit bats? They're protected here too, so it'd have to be something that can't harm them.

Kaitie.

10 years ago 0 +0 / -0 6252

The only critters that are a problem here are deer and bears.

I had more trouble with the dog digging up things and eating them. It ate the peas too.

Davit.

10 years ago 0 +0 / -0 4027

I wonder if others have found recreation in doing something creative?

I saw a bent coathanger in the laneway, and it prompted me to solve an issue in the garden later. Critters like to dig up plants, to garders' dismay. I transplanted a couple of accidently uprooted seedlings on the weekend.

I decided to make a cover using a coathanger, since once accumulates too many. I just bent the coathaner to form a triangle, and then pulled the mesh from an fruit bag, similar to the ones for onions or oranges over the coathanger.

I'll press the cover, which can allow sun and water in, deterring the critters, into the garden protecting the transplanted seedlings.

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