This is my online journal of my veggie garden journey. As I find things I find useful I will post and week to week exploration of growing my own food.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Bee Class
I went to a bee keeping class tonight and they provide a lot of useful information on how bees not only produce honey and bees wax but are crucial to plants in general. Granted there is much to learn on the subject but I will post a few things on the topic on my next posting.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Still battling ants in my pots
after all was said and done my tomatoe plants grew a few much to my surprise. Last year I had no luck growing tomatoes. That being said after digging out my tomato plants at the bottom of the pots were carpenter ants. I shook most of them off the roots and used orange oil. I did notice that my pepper plants had none at the bottom I guess that's a good .
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Sunday, September 12, 2010
Snake in my compost bin
Yup you read right I had a snake in my compost bin. Although after identifying it I wish I had not killed it. It was was plains blind snake. Apparently I think it was attracted to the ants that were in the bin and it was having a field day. They are harmless and look sorta like an earthworm with a metalic look to it.
Check it out what I saw. Its a link to a website on the little critter.
So next time you see one don't kill it. Its not venomous and certainly does some good getting rid of termites and and ants.
Check it out what I saw. Its a link to a website on the little critter.
So next time you see one don't kill it. Its not venomous and certainly does some good getting rid of termites and and ants.
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