[Food] Production – Gardening, General

biofuel13

DoubleD--

Wow! Excellent garden! I didn't have time to expand mine to that size this year, I'm planning on having something very similar to yours next year.....that is...if we all make it to next year......

DoubleD

Thanks biofuel13 - it IS getting scarey out there lately. Sad

The garden is more than a food source - it is also a refuge from a world that appears to be going mad.
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wisconsin_cur

Looking for help identifying an insect. they show up a few weeks before the colorado potato beetles... there is no damage initially... I've never given them a chance, most years I collect them and feed them to the chickens.

the look like a rose chafer but don't bother the roses or the peonies... I only see them on the potatoes and occassionaly on a weed or another.

Do you know this bug?

thank you in advance,
Cur
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mommy22 · Heavy Crude Joined: Jul 22, 2005 Posts: 270

How do you all keep from gophers, rabbits, etc...from eating up your garden?
I am soooo peeved at the gophers who live in the forested area behind my neighbor's house....grrr!
Everything was coming up beautifully, then one morning all my peas were torn up and eaten, along with my parsley and swiss chard. He seems to like my spinach, too, and this afternoon, he was nibbling on my eggplant leaves!!!!
Any suggestions welcome!. I can't shoot them, as there are gun laws in my neighborhood.

Ludi

You can often keep digging animals out of the garden by putting chicken wire in an L shape along the outside bottom of the fence, with the bottom part of the L laying flat on the ground, or buried a little, weighted down with heavy rock, logs, or staked down by heavy inverted U shaped pieces of wire.
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mommy22 · Heavy Crude Joined: Jul 22, 2005 Posts: 270

Thanks, Ludi...I'll have to try that.

DoubleD

wisconsin_cur - I honestly don't know what that bug is - only guess I have is that it is an immature potato beetle - or a mutant one. Do you live near a nuclear reactor?
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frankthetank

Wisconsin-

Those are Rose Chafers...100% positive. They have been bad this year. Everywhere i've been around here, i've noticed leaf damage. Mine have pretty let up around here. I don't think i killed a single bug today. They should be gone in another week or two. This year they were late.
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wisconsin_cur

ORCA

There's reams of great information here. I doubt I will have time to dig through it all, but I will go through a lot.

I, too, live in Virginia. We have five acreas with about half open and the remainder in mostly hardwoods.

I started a garden late this spring. Its about 1500 sq. ft., and we have planted sweet corn, pole beans, peas, string beans, butter beans, sweet red and green peppers, hot peppers, squash, and five types of tomatoes, three of which are non-hybreds.

I planted the pole beans and additional yellow-neck squash inbetween the corn rows following advice for "The Three Sisters" and maximizing garden space. I saved a small plot for my mixed greens and turnips later on.

I was too late for potatoes, but, as a lark, I planted sprouting Russet potatoes in a mulched leaf pile from last fall. It will be interesting on what grows, if anything.

My wife planted three large pots on the deck with herbs. Mostly its bassel, thyme, oregano, chives, and parsley. In two pots the herbs share space with a cherry tomato plant. All are doing great.

The best tool to help me in the garden I found is a small mini-tiller made by Honda. With only a 9" swath, it allows me to cultivate in and around all the plants. Its quite, too! Althouth gasoline powered, it only takes a little and I will continue to use it until I no longer can.
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gonfishn

Guerilla Gardening,who's doing what?
I recently was asked to clean up some property for an older lady.
In one corner of the property I discovered around 50 small cherry trees scattered around 4-5 mature trees. The lady said mow them down,I don't think so! So I transplanted 20 trees on my place,gave away a few and now i'm looking to plant the rest in an area that is off my property{on a relatives but in an area they haven't visited in years} but would still be accessible for the future.
Anybody else doing anything similar?

gonfishn

Help! I need plant ideas for a wet area on my property.

I've already got a good supply of cattails growing in another area.
the ground is saturated but without standing water.I'm trying to plant as many things in these areas that will reproduce themselves as possible.I've planted berries around the fringe of this area now I need to fill it in.Lets here your ideas,

DoubleD

Cranberries
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