The Praxxus Weekend Edition 3
An avalanche of REALLY cool questions this week! It’s just you and me. Sit back, toss on the headphones and let’s discuss this like rational adults……ok…….ummm…………which of us is the rational adult?
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Pickled beets are GROSS! But just steamed beets are good! :] They’re pretty sweet and taste kinda like corn to me. You should definitely try it.
If you mix water with dish washer soap and denatured alcohol in equal parts
put it in a pump spray bottle and spray your plants, it will help you get rid of the black fleas
on tomatoes! Spray everyday, but not in bright sunlight, it won’t hurt the plant.
Remember to spray under the leaves as well….(these bastards hide!)
Mix in cayenne pepper if you have
You gotta spray everyday (evening)
Joe
Hi,
beer traps are no good. Snails that haven’t noticed the plants, will be drawn even more to the veggies by the smell of the beer!
Just imagine yourself standing on the market place shouting “free beer for everyone who shows up!”….
There is a sort of a natural “grain” that is so rough that snails avoid slipping over it and if you put a ring of it far enough away
from the veggies, you should be safe. After the season you can mix that grain into the soil as a natural fertilizer.
Joe
@jazdogwalker Well, living in Minnesota….aka: the “oh what a surprise it’s raining AGAIN” state. lol
I have a really really long water hose running from the house. Your idea is actually an excellent one! Free water and right where you need it!
How do you water your gardens? They do not look very close to the house….I am surprised you haven’t ever mentioned the challenges of keeping such a garden watered! Do you use your well to water or do you rely on rain? I have large gardens, no outdoor tap and this year am starting to rely on rain barrels (homemade, basically just big buckets). an improvement over hauling water from my pond. I am impressed and am trying to have one near every garden.
Peppers are delicate and fusier than tomato best to plant them apart as the tomato will take over.
@rayme4raw Toads love slightly tall grass. It gives them an area to hide. I mow my grass a little higher than most people. This keeps me from mowing the toads into hamburger and allows them to stay hidden and catch bugs. The only thing they have to worry about is the garter snakes until they get big enough to not fear them.
@Praxxus55712 Thanks for replying:) The plants are healthy enough that I don’t have bug problems. I’ve tried some of the corn, but I guess I have too much shade for them, they were not very sweet, so they won’t be planted next year. It’s too much space for too little produce. How do you encourage toads, we use to have them but they jump away until they leave the yard.
@rayme4raw My turkeys would keep the entire garden down if I let them loose. No birds are allowed in there on penalty of………..well actually there is no penalty. I would gently herd them out. < —aren’t I a baddass? lol
I rarely even have bug problems. I encourage wild birds, garter snakes and toads. They pretty much decimate all bugs. Also strong healthy plants withstand bug attacks pretty well.
ps: Damn, sorry about your corn. That blows!
The deer hit my corn. Do your turkeys and peacocks keep the bugs down in your garden? Still waiting on my tomatoes to turn red or yellow. Tons of tomatoes and yellow flowers.
Damn that corn looks awesome. I may have to try it next year.
ash from a wood fire is the method we use. The salt isn’t great for the soil so I wouldn’t use it myself. Slugs and snails hate the ash as it sticks to them. A ring of it (quite thick) around your plants might do the trick. Good luck anyway!
I found out recently that ground egg shells will keep slugs off of your plants.
@Nuru305 I have never tried it. I’ve had a few people email me asking if I’d used it. If it works really well and is less toxic than OFF, I’m all for trying it!
@anniequilts he has worn that in a lot of vids
Have you ever used Neem oil as a bug repellant for your garden? If you have what were your results?
how do you dry your tomatoe seed to grow them
By the way, I managed to totally kill it
Actually, what was described with the peppers here is what exactly happened to me too *blush* – I didn’t have a proper drainage in the pot and so I kinda killed my pepper by watering. When I finally decided to take it out of the pot, there were almost no roots left. I stuffed it into the garden on horse manure and stupid as I was kept watering it too well. The stem and fruits still looked okay, only the leaves were sad. So, I suppose taking it out asap _might_ help?
It sounds like Jason’s pepper has a problem with Fusarium or Verticillium Wilt which will affect his tomatoes because like peppers they are nightshades too. The problem may have come in on the soil of the potted pepper. I’d get rid of the pepper. I handle my slug and other bug problems with DIATOMACEOUS EARTH, the Food Grade type. Look up EARTHWORKSHEALTH on the internet. DON’T use the DE for swimming pool filters, that will kill you. I just love your WEEKEND EDITION Mr. P#
@iampchaupt Hahahah thats funny !!!!
oh copper tape is great for snails. It carry’s a small electrical current and if you make a barrier around your pot’s it will keep the snails out!
As far as the strawberry’s. What eat’s the berry’s themselves are fruit fly larve. once the fruit becomes ripe and makes contact with the soil the fruit fly larve emerges from the soil and begin eating the fruit. I lay down black plastic over my strawberry bed’s and then plant the strawberry’s. AND you must pick your strawberry’s before they are ripe to head off the cycle of fruit fly.
Jason’s question – sounds like root rot. the pepper really needs a lot of sun and being cramped in with the tomato’s is no bueno. Jason need’s to transplant ASAP that pepper plant into it’s own pot where it can recieve full sun and it’s own amount of water.
@anniequilts Praxxus can neither confirm nor deny this.
*hides the yearly supply of free Coca Cola*