Well, BB, you just have a different ilk of carpenter bees and wasps it seems. We're fortunate that we don't have them trying to take us over in such an aggressive manner! I do try to nip ground wasp nests in the bud, if I catch them soon enough, cause they will sting you silly!
Sorry about your poor horses. My, they must have suffered!
2009-10 TOMATO TOURNEY!!!!
They were not to happy, but cooling the stingersites off with the hose helped. They were a lil touchy about their heads for a little while, but they are both fine now. That was a few years ago that happened. We keep our place pretty clean so we do not have the filth bugs, but some places, oh man, pigsties and poohbugs.. how they can keep animals like that is beyond me. Its cruel.
I looked up those materworms on Wiki...they claim they are not from this country, but have a greater territory overseas.
Well, the mater tourney for me has about ended. I yanked most of the tomaters off the plants last nite because of frost predicted.
Then this morning I get up.... no frost. So now I have a huge pile of green tomaters...!
Still need to pull the cherry tomatoes, but I can cover most of them.
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I took out three tomato plants today: Federle, Great White, and Juliette. The Norwegian, Zapotec, Ropreco, Orange Oxheart and Striped German got taken out last week. That leaves just two Big Beefs, and they are still producing. No frost for us, I think, until November ... but most of the plants were pretty sad looking, so ... I must say that the Big Beef plants produced about 50 lbs EACH of some pretty remarkable tomatoes!
Im not happy with my maters this season. Im dumping Better Boy for Big Beef. They were better tomatoes last season. Big Beef did not crack like the boys did.
I am however head over heels with my cherry maters... they do the best in the ground vs baskets. What a bumper crop.. and these have been hardy for fall.. still going, but I cover them at nite.
These are third generation.. so they are not like the original, but have actually gotten better and tastier!
Hauling away th elast of the dead vines and doing cleanup getting ready to thnk on next year.
Believe it or not, picked 2-1/2 pounds of tomatoes from some volunteer plants near my compost pile ... otherwise, have planted hairy vetch where next year's plants will go ... clean-up finished some while ago ... of course, my garden is no where near as extensive as yours is, blossombuddy!
Ima still working on the mater plants.. they are all dead and dun, but still clinging to the trellisses... Just finished plucking the marigolds and have that mess to clean up too.
To say again, if its not one mess, its anudder! LOL!
Looks like my cherry maters are "planted" for next season.. I had a few maters fall back into their pots soi I spose I will get some nice volunteers again. My cherry maters are great for coiming back that way. Im probably gonna have marigolds popping up hither and yon too as that was a royal mess after them plants frosted and gatherign the seeds.. they are every where.
Nas maters thar J!