Comments on: into the drink: making pickles, drowning beetles

By: margaret

margaret — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:13:04 +0000

Welcome, Welltraveled. Sounds like you are finding great joy in your, er, gardening (well, at least in your beetlecide). Me, too, but my fish don’t seem to assist; will have to inquire what’s up with that. See you soon again.

By: welltraveled

welltraveled — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:42:38 +0000

I make a game of drowning the Japanese beetles and then I hand feed them to the fish..The little fish LOVE them ,jump right out of the lake to catch them..REVENGE is MINE…LOL

By: Fred from Loudonville, NY

Fred from Loudonville, NY — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:17:38 +0000

Margaret after seeing this POST, I went out to take a look at my vegetable patches. My tomato, bush beans, flat leafed parsley, and mammoth dill are ALL doing fine. BUT the cucumbers that were planted around Memorial Day, along with the just mentioned vegetables came up grew to about 8″ to 10″ , and stopped! The absence of a lot of sun, and heat must have stopped their growth. The only things that are growing in the vegetable patches are CRAB GRASS. I never put down PREEN in any space where I eat from, so soon I will be doing a SECOND weeding in those places. My next thing to look into is CORN GLUTEN, thanks to your suggestions. Maybe I will LOVE it, and then you can do the “Happy Dance”, because you got another gardener to go LESS toxic!

By: Louise @ Buddy Garden

Louise @ Buddy Garden — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:18:12 +0000

Oh gosh, that's a familiar drowning scene. I am not looking forward to that at all. I had a swamp of japanese beetles last year and they fed on my plants like there's no tomorrow.

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:04:20 +0000

This will have to be my first canning job of the season. I do not grow my own, but will get them from the farmers market. The recipe from Shauna look fab.