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  • From: "Art Corbit" <art_c@cox.net>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Coupla replies and stuff
  • Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 00:01:47 -0500

This being River bottom farm country there has been so much bug spray used
for so long it has killed out most things like that. No red worms at all in
the farm land and very few grass hoppers in what little grass there is left.
Just about all the cotton tail rabbits are gone. We have very few bugs even
around the porch light at night any more. I haven't seen a lightning bug in
years. When I was a kid you could see them by the hundreds. I found a dead
jar fly on my steps yesterday and it's the first one I have seen in a long
time.You are very lucky to have the ladybugs.

Art

----- Original Message -----
From: "TamesonOB" <tamesonob@metrocast.net>
To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 9:31 PM
Subject: [Livingontheland] Coupla replies and stuff


>
> > You can buy Lady Bugs and turn them loose in your garden...
>
> This totally cracks me up evertime I see somone say this. Ladybugs just
LOVE
> my house and will travel from miles around to overwinter in my
bedroom.They
> like cool dark places to overwinter and my bedroom is just that (Hubby is
a
> "hot body" and can't stand it over 40 degrees and he works at 2 am so we
> have an extensive lightblocking curtain system going on in the windows -
> Ladybug wintertime haven). It's gotten to the point in the last few years
> that I think window casings look odd without a swarm of ladybugs napping
> above it.
>
> >As I stated earlier - I would be glad to send comfrey roots to anyone who
> >would like them
>
> Cheri - is it OK to send them out of state (like to me?) Can't have too
much
> diversity in the garden you know
>
> >but the sunflower could not get enough nitrogen, so it was only 2 feet
> >high. And the flowers were only 3 inches wide!!
>
> Noma that's a riot. Did all the other flowers pick on the poor runty
> sunflowers?
>
> Feeling punchy - it past my bedtime
>
> Tameson
>
>
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