Curmudgeonland...home Of The Old Farts Club

[giggy]

morning yoop and the rest of the ofc. rabbits? we got em. want some? my dogs give em hell. back home we kill every jack we see them buggers can eat.

 

[Hippie]

Good morning OFC, how everybody be today ? It's Saturday, the weekend's here, time to party, or is it time for the real work to start ? Either way we gonna start with a session of "wake n bake". So, get a cup of coffee, pack a bowl and here we go. Puffin' and passin' to the next old fart in line.

Don't need to be usin' no four letter W words around here. Morning, Yoop & Giggy.

 

[Sunbaked]

lots of W to do. tomato's and pot to plant puffin then start it.

 

[stonestacker]

Good morning guys.

My dog's been trying to chase a snowshoe hare lately. Yesterday the hare cleared the length of my garage (50 foot) in 3 bounds. Dog stopped and watched.

Smart dog.

Had my coffee going to eat some oatmeal and then burn one. Puff puff pass.

 

[Hippie]

Got the trailer hooked up to the bus and heading to Big Nothing in a short to pick up a JD with a blown motor and a good deck to mate with my JD with a good motor and a fubar deck. Gonna have a Frankendeere!

 

[yooper420]

Got the trailer hooked up to the bus and heading to Big Nothing in a short to pick up a JD with a blown motor and a good deck to mate with my JD with a good motor and a fubar deck. Gonna have a Frankendeere!

Need some help ? Stop by and pick me up.

 

[Sunbaked]

12 tomato's in the ground and 2 gallons of bug killer .my back told me I was all done till the pain pill kicks in.

 

[Freshone]

Funny how that works baked,I trimmed 8 hours yesterday and I can barely close my damn hands today.Oh well no trimming today,gotta go buy momma a new car which might be worse,lol,hopefully not though,fleet guy promises I'll be in and out within an hour,MFer better be right to as I don't have much patience for salesmen.
Morning all.

 

[LittleDabbie]

I'm sore and i still gotta go out and do more shit to the fuckin trees...

It never ends :(

 

[Hippie]

I'm sore and i still gotta go out and do more shit to the fuckin trees...

It never ends :(

Yeah, it does. They call it death. Ain't none of us getting out of this life alive.

 

[mendel]

Whats up OFC...........I got my chores done, now ima do nothin'..........wore out, need a day off

 

[mendel]

I just went out and walked thru the garden, mainly to check to see if rabbits are eating the green beans that are pushing up. I think my fence and shooting the bastards is working. Beans are a rabbit favorite and ive struggled in the past to raise them. Right now I have have no damage.

I noticed as well, that there is lots of little grasshoppers around. They were bad last year, and probably will be this year as well. I had my wife stop by the local county weed and pest dept yesterday when she went to town, to buy a bag of eco-bran, which is bran with 2% sevin added. It is effective at knocking down the population. As soon as this rainy period ends ill broadcast it in a yuuuuuuuge swath around the garden to help control hoppers. My second line of hopper defense is the 200 chicks currently in the brooder house. Well pasture them all summer then sell them in fall.

 

[Sunbaked]

got my tilling done ,pain pill working fine. what a difference. I think this is my last year buying soil every year. My garden now looking fine compared to 6 years ago. use to be real sandy. after 6 years of digging holes and filling with good stuff. now the whole garden looks great. done bought 10 bags of soil and 2 cubes of pro mix.
but next year Ill just till and plant.
mendel, or anyone else ,what do you kill them bugs with outdoors? I had aphids last year ,so I'm at war this year. fought moss in the yard all spring ,now I'm fighting them bugs. put granule killer and tilled it in and 4 gallons of pyrethrum spray in the greenhouse and outdoors. damn ladybugs could not keep up last year. lost 4 plants out of 12

 

[Sunbaked]

now that's funny I posted mine and your was there lol

 

[mendel]

Aphids are easy to kill, as far as bugs go. Malathion is ok to use when the plants are young, but im hesitant to use it as plants develop. I also like to do a perimeter spraying with tempo, which must be reapplied anytime it rains.

I had a friend w an aphid problem last year, and he used a spray of habanero powder and a few drops of dish soap to control the population and it was fairly effective.

I have heard that dishsoap and water can help control aphids as well, but havent tried it or seen anyone else try it either.

 

[Sunbaked]

I don't want to control them ,I want to kill them buggers lol. aphids are root dwellers .have to treat the soil.

 

[mendel]

I dont have any experiance with root aphids. The ones ive treated for climbed the lpant and sucked the juice out of leaves and stems.

maybe this......... https://www.thcfarmer.com/community/threads/root-aphid-annhiliation-pics.54240/

 

[Papa Indica]

Hope everyone in the OFC is well today, good luck with those aphids baked, I'm in the midst of a complete dump to rid myself of spider mites. What the hell, it was a good time to take a break and get a fresh start anyway. Looking forward to firing off some new strains.

 

[Sunbaked]

yes ,but they also live in the roots. sometimes they get wings and fly.and ants plant them

 

[Papa Indica]

Wow, pretty slow around here, wasn't too long ago if I didn't stop by until the end of the day there'd be half a dozen pages gone by, or more.