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RE: Gardening spring 2010

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

I forced myself to reduce the peppers this season to just
a bell, a jalapeno, and a Thai chile. Still have a dozen or so
gallon ziplocks of dried chilies, a gallon ziplock full of frozen
jalapenos in the freezer. My hot pepper relish supply is
holding up well. Just being "realistic" this year.

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

Was out assessing the damage from 4 straight days of steady
rainfall this Memorial Day Weekend. Most of the damage was
from the 2 fucking cats living next door. Slung about a dozen
piles of catshit into the woods. They got into my radishes ruining
about half the plants. Besides the cat issues, the slugs have
had their way on several sunflower plants. I've been doing the
nightly patrols but I have to sleep sometime. I've had my big
cones over the green beans and cuke plants for the last 5 days.
Smaller bell domes over the peppers. Covering plants for days
on end leads to a bit of shock when you take them off and they
get full sun. They may get a shot at few hours being "naked"
today but another heavy rainstorm is predicted for Tuesday nite.
The slugs beat me to my first couple ripe strawberries. Couldn't
believe any would be ripe the way the weather has been. The corn
is 2" high and the potatoes are looking real good. With all the rain
my lawn mowing schedule is about 5 days late. Going to be
empty'ing the bag a lot.

I made up a batch of this "scat cat" tonic today and dribbled it
around my garden in the spots where the cats have been shitting.
Let you know how well it works.

This is from Jerry Baker's "Backyard Problem Solver" book.

"Scat Cat Solution"
5 tbsp of flour
4 tbsp of powdered mustard
3 tbsp of cayenne pepper
2 tbsp of chili powder
2 qts of warm water

Suggest using a large bowl to mix this in. Add just a little of the water
and make a paste before adding the rest of the water. I used a ladle
to apply this solution to my garden area.

Calvin · Upgraded Condition?

Guaranteed ta make a "cat scat"!!

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

I got the firepower to send those cats to the "happy hunting
ground" but explaining their demise might get complicated.
I'm a human. Should be able to "outsmart" them. Will dig
out every trick there is. Pissing off a cat could be fun.

Uke · Cured

Keep that info to yourself Krink. Ya don't wanna make an enemy of Freddie. He's our resident cat lover... And having a pissed off Freddie is not a good thing!

Uke advises you not advertise your cat remedies here. This isn't exactly the venue.

Let's all stay on topic poeopleople. This furomoum is about foode. Gardenz. And eading.
And eading places [greazy spoons, dinerz, restuaranting, and sush!

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

Jerry Baker must have different cats than the ones
next door. Cat shit in the garden just like usual.
The next door cats like to shit very late at night or
early morning. Hard to monitor. Just know they
scamper away laughing at me.

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

Finally a "real" summer day on Saturday. After spending the
week "de-weeding" my gravel driveway ( the organic way...
on your hands and knees) I did more weeding in my garden.
Fuck!...where does all this come from. Grasses of all kinds,
chickweed, red leaf sorrel, and about a dozen others that
I don't know the names of. I found myself to blame for some
of these "weeds". A million Butterfly Bush starts in my driveway
were because I didn't clip the tops soon enough last fall. Same
for the oregano, mint, alpine strawberries, borage, tarragon,
heather, and a few others. Of course the cottonwood fuzz
is now germinating into tiny trees everywhere. A garden space
needs to be weeded about a half dozen times during a growing
season. I'm about to try gardening in my driveway. Set aside
a 12'X12' space and try to grow everything that I normally
do in the graveled space. Be real funny to see pumpkins and squash
growing in your gravel driveway. The dismal May weather has
not been kind to my Strawberries. Lots of rotten berries and the
plants look haggered. If the weather would turn "summery" for
several weeks, a decent harvest could still be possible. I need
enough to atleast make jam.

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

My garden...all raised beds and permanent walkways. The
walkways are got de-grassed/weeded today with a fresh
covering of cedar shavings. Slugs think twice about slithering
along cedar shavings. Cedar shavings down are a great thing
for knees, don't have to put that knee in mud. Cedar shavings
smell good and keeps weeds/grasses at bay for 2 year.
I'm getting caught up little by little. Now if some steady sun
can resurrect some of my ailing garden.

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

I planted my corn seed on May 11. Rule of thumb on corn is
that it be "knee high" by the 4th of July. I can't see that happening
with the current weather pattern. I chose corn because it's the
least likey crop to fail. If the sun can find it's way into our daily
lives this summer, there is still hope.

FMB · Board Modification Mediator

The Krink wrote:

Slugs think twice about slithering
along cedar shavings.

Slugs LOVE beer.......

Beer
Slugs are attracted to beer. Set a small amount of beer in a shallow wide jar buried in the soil up to its neck. Slugs will crawl in and drown. Take the jar lid and prop it up with a small stick so rain won't dilute the beer. Leave space for slugs to enter the trap.

http://eartheasy.com/grow_nat_slug_cntrl.htm

-- Edited by FMB on Wednesday 16th of June 2010 08:51:10 PM

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

The gardeners war against the slugs is never ending. I know every
trick man has come up with so far to stop the damage one slug
can do to a plant during the night hours. The best plan is a nightly
slug patrol. They make their move just before dark. Hand picking
slugs grosses out many people, not me. Any slug I find in the garden
zone gets a size 15 death. Of course I only have the time for one
patrol each night. The later arriving slugs get to feast. Beer traps
can be a hassel depending on the size of your garden. They sell
this goop called "Deadline" around here. I pour/squeeze it on top
of the woodframes of my raised bed garden. Works like a champ.
The slugs crawl over it and its a slime out until death. Even though
you might know every way to protect a plant from a slug, execution
and complacency is why you may lose a few plants during the growing
season. "I'll put the Deadline out when I see a some sprouts"..."I hit
the area heavy with Deadline a couple months ago, must have washed
away during the rains"..."I didn't know slugs are good climbers"..."I've
killed so many slugs in the past week that there can't be any left".
Every gardener is going to have periods of interruptions in which
they have to put the garden on automatic for a time. Slugs don't
have interruptions, they just keep coming. It's a war that is hard
to completely win. I just grow extra figurin' on losing a few plants.

Freddie Krueger · Unstable & Irrational

Slugs, beer, Troll, hmmmm

Troll · 500 - Internal Server Error

Fallen ladders tu.

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

Something you may not know is "slugs are cannibals".
I've observed the ones that I squished on the lawn the
night before have new arrivals feeding off them the
next night. Of course they get squished too. This process
is much cheaper than store bought slug bait. Slugs also
love dog and cat shit. Of course caution is advised when
stomping them to death.

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