harley: Planting marigolds is a bit weird though. Who wants a garden full of rubber gloves?

bumble:

marigolds... rubber gloves.... sure! Must have something to do with potatoe alarm clocks... right?

Eriisa: mothballs work with snakes too i live in the country and we have the occasional snake that tried to move in but have found they dont like the scent of mothballs either

Well it is fruit flys on my grapevine.Still using the soapy water.

Happy to say my grapevine is doing just great.Guess the soapy water is working.

Foxy Lady: good,glad to here that your grapes are ok,even if the fruit flies wine about it.

nobleheart: Grapes=wine your right

We been in the 90's can you believe were going into the 50's tonite? High for today is 74.

Here's Dallas weather for you. We hit our high of 95 by 11am yesterday, but then some storms came through in the afternoon, so we hit our low of 75 at 3pm.

*shakes head*

Foxy Lady: our weather in richmond hill, ontario has been nuts too. We went from an unseasonably cold wet spring in a snap into hot summer...then we had 13 day heatwave(90-99 F) no rain no wind...now it has turnind cool again


*waves hi to Noble*

nobleheart: I wonder what causes the weather to change so much.

Eriisa: We were running in the 90's and today was high 74 and our nites are aiming at low 50's go figure.

Foxy Lady: we have spent the last few weeks in the 80's and 90's with the heat index most days in the 100's and now its 69

Dolittle and/or Bwildman.....how are your Paw paw"s going?

Foxy Lady: complex causes:
global warming
natural long term climate cycles
solar radiation fluxuation cycle
El Niño,El Niña

nobleheart: *steve waves hi back to ScarletRose*

BerniceC: steve waits patiently for his paw paw seeds

nobleheart: Oh you found me! LOL

ScarletRose:

nobleheart: ElNana i just want some nice weather not too hot or cold.lol

nobleheart: Hello farmer sam LOLOL.....well you wont be getting anything shortly.....I asked you for a music preference and that was a real request. You named some people that Australia has never heard of...You see I send the seeds in a CD container and will not waste CD, postage or time on crap....oops....thats good for the garden isnt it.....sorry....

let me know your preference of music...country or what.....remember Im an older woman....and if you really were serious about getting these seeds you could send me $10 australian to cover it LOLOLOL

Im not a millionaire or I wouldnt ask :)

an insider tip: snails avoid tagetes smell - it's kinda
natural barrier, even more at blooming time - but careful
- tagetes juice might inflict skin irritation with sensible people. ~*~

Eriisa: mangold increases the milk production of cows. ~*~

Ok now i got bettles chewing on my grapevine just the leaves.Soapy water doesn't work on these buggers.

Foxy Lady: buy neem oil. you can get it in a small bottle about 12 bucks will last you the summer.. This stuff isnt toxic to plants, pets, birds or ppl but bugs hate the taste. I use it on everying and finally am bug free this year! FI you buy it let me know I will tell you how to use it

Rose: Heck I might buy some just to put on my screens.. I got the June bugs.. or may beetles all over my window screens.. ewwwwwwwwwieeeeeeeeee..

Rose: Ok my hubby is going to pick up a bottle and i'll PM you. Those beetles can also mess up a clothesline of clothes drying,back to using my dryer.

Foxy Lady: Okay.. while we are sipping on wine.. *the bottle*.. we can have your hubby spray! Such a nice man he is.. I just don't wanna break a nail ya know! ;)

ScarletRose: junebug:

http://www.lyricsbox.com/b-s-lyrics-junebug-5498l3h.html

nobleheart: *blush*

ScarletRose: Hmmmmmm that sounds good for later.Beetles can be a pain,i had to start drying clothes inside dang it.

be careful,this happened to my mom friday..wasps are attracted to the wet clothes on the line in this dry weather.
she dropped a towel picked it up..wasp trapped inside it stung her in the arm

nobleheart: Oh wow and the sting does hurt.
So far know wasps just those beetles chewing on my grapevine leaves.

Rose lol it rained after Ted sprayed/

Foxy Lady: that bites.. if it really rained hard then its best to spray again today

Rose: LOL we got rain today also.

Foxy Lady: Ok the first day it isnt raining spray.

Another tip for Foxy Lady......I was watching a cooking programme set in Marocco & they were growing lots of grapes on overhead trellis, then on the ground they stuck a stick with an orange on the end of it, the orange was covered in syrup & all the bugs were attracted to it & they left the grapes overhead alone!
Dont know if this helps at all, but it worked well in Marocco & its enviro friendly too!

Lamby: kool idea for sure.. FYI for all Neem Oil is totally 100% enviro friendly in that it is not toxic, doesnt hurt birds, animals or people.. Bugs cant stand it.. Its from the Asian Neem tree.

Lamby: syrupy orange..clever idea that...if the bugs wont leave stuff alone..divert their attention to something else.
I have to be careful playing backgammon with ScarletRose..she tries to be cute & disctract me from the game..lol

Rose: thats great, sounds like good stuff! I much prefer enviro friendly stuff.....I try & avoid chemicals in every situation (not just gardening) if possible

nobleheart: yeah diversion tactics can be lethal :oD

Lamby: Sounds like a good idea maybe candy can work also.

if you have a problem like we DID with wasps by the dozens in the backyard:
http://www.pestcontrolcanada.com/INSECTS/wasp_traps.htm

can be made from a plastic pop bottle.
care do not cut yoourself as you cut the plastic.
a little hamburger & maple syrup seems to really attract them

nobleheart: Oh that is kewl.. thanks for the link.. and so quick and easy to make..

Foxy Lady:
candy
good perfume :
chanel #5
Narcisse Chloe
elizabeth W Magnolia's Eau de Parfum
Bulgari Blu Notte
Eternity Moment by Calvin Klein

will attract me!!!

nobleheart: Thanks i usually will try to keep on topic but i needed the laugh.

Ok now i got ants

Foxy Lady: Oh dear! All these creepy crawlies just love you! :oD Im honestly not laughing at your problem, its the way you tell it, it made me chuckle! Right Im going to look up ants now on google lol

Lamby: Hey it looks like good news! Ants are fascinating! They arent pests really, look at this..
http://ant.edb.miyakyo-u.ac.jp/INTRODUCTION/Gakken79E/Page_06.html