Mine aren't nearly as impressive, but they've only been in the ground for about a week.
Ordered my Onion Plants!!
I used Dixondales fertilizer- didnt have to correct for normal ground ph. I think my daughter is wondering where her tomatoes are goin. some of the critters I unearthed...mine will be used as green and bulb onions tho
Pix didnt make send
I still have to get my onions in the ground, maybe I'll just stick them in pots. The peafowl will probably pull them out.
Kittriana-what is that thing? Yuck!
I also purchased the dixondale fertilizer (organic). We planted one area as Dixondale suggest and another one, my husband just stuck in the ground 4" apart.
Dead. along with other soon to be villains and a 2"grasshopper and the grand daddy of all leaf footed bugs. We still get butterflies hatching all this winter - IF my youngun will get the spinosad out soon, we might get some real food to survive
Not HOW is it? Lol WHAT is it?
LOL
p.s. nice onion patches steph & kit, so very neat. And yeah, I may just pay the piper and get the Dixondale fertilizer at this point.
Ugly...
I have no clue what it was. So very white with a black beak. just no clue...
It looks like some kind of grub worm.
Though I can't see details, it does look like a grub worm. My boxes had a huge infestation of them a year or two ago. We dug up each box and sifted the dirt and dropped each grub into soapy water. Have not had one since but haven't dug up all the boxes yet this year. That is one nice thing about boxes - easy to dig and handle. M
I guess the grubs ive seen are chubby, I'm happy to say I've never seen one like that.
The little hard scaled on reminds me of meal worms, but wasnt- and the feet were like an inchworm, only on the front. Had several of those too.
Yes, I've been told by a local that those are grubs. We have quite a few out in the pasture and that is what the feral hogs come to dig up. Also skunks and 'dillos to name a few. Sigh. Bennie nematodes are said to take care of them, but we have too much pasture to do that right now. So I just dig them up in the garden and put them on a fence post. Our blue birds love them.
Is that what a wireworm is, tuff little buggers. I think you are absolutely correct- we were plagued by SO many bugs last year that nothing seemed to work, we get millipedes and mole crickets real bad too, but taters aren't grown in this space...if my daughter has a minute, she is supposed to treat with spinosad since this time last month. I am goin to have to keep her supply goin I think...
Grubs are more transparent.
I think the fat one reminded me of an army worm a whole lot. Not accustomed to them in shades of white, but thats what I thought when I sliced him in 2...
I was wondering if that could be a wireworm? I didn't know they were larva to the click beetle.
Think we agreee the little crunchy ones are wireworms.
What ever they are the hogs love them. @#$%^ feral hogs. I'm up all night quieting my dogs as they want to tell me all about the hog's presence.....Grrrr! Plus they are tearing up the pasture.
Terri,
I bet my son-in-law from Nacogdoches would love to come up and shoot a hog or two. It's only a couple of hours drive from you. In Texas, wild hogs are always open for hunting. : )
David
We've shot a couple. But I've gone out at night with night-vision binoc's and the current herd coming up to my pasture from the Sabine River numbers around sixty. If you shoot one they stay away for about a week. And then they are back. DH is trying to figure out how to trap them all (the whole herd) and then haul them to a local meat packer. We'll see how that goes.....
I'll look for details, but I remember seeing a trapping technique used in Hawaii that had a large fenced area with swing down trap doors that could capture a good number of hogs at one time. It used existing trees and extra t-posts to support the heavy duty wire fencing.
I'd be up for that hunt & I'd bring the smoker & BBQ sauce. We cooked some fresh boar at work several times, those are about the best ribs I've ever cooked. My old boss was into hog hunting and he'd bring them to work every so often.
60 hogs is a BIG herd, usually they don't run more than 20 or 30, but if they've got a good food source, they'll move in and overrun whatever's there...
To get back on topic, I'd bet those BBQ hogs would be really good with some Texas 1015 onions. I'll be surprised if I have any decent onions this year. I STILL have some transplants that need to be planted. I've been watering them to keep them alive. I do have some plants that have been in the ground since January. I was late getting the tomatoes started, too, but that is a different story.
David
I thought the same thing with BBq & onions... lol
Late on starting the maters here too, maybe we can have a slow race.
Ooooo, and I'll throw in the new Texas Legends. I've planted out two bundles and they appear to be doing well (knock wood/laminate).
I just now started my tomatoes, so I'm in the boat with you all. I just haven't found that my 'maters take off that fast when I plant them out before the soil temps get up to at least 68 degrees. Just my impression in my own garden.....
And yes, those hogs are tearing up my pasture and the neighbor's pasture.
Lots of problems with wild, "tame" animals.
Check this thread out.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1294110/
Well,
Since I have tomatoes inside under fluorescent lights that have actually SPROUTED little china ball tomatoes, I'm ahead of you all! LOL!
At least I'll come with homemade salsa! Or, at the least, fried green tomatoes!
LOLOLOL!
Hmmmmm! Fried green tomatoes......hmmmmm!
I wonder what's going on with us Texans? I still haven't planted my onions or potatoes. I just can't seem to find the time...and these crazy temps are making me crazy...I did start my tomatoes but I still haven't started my peppers or eggplants...I hope to this weekend. It's not like it's brain surgery.
Well Lisa, don't beat yourself up too much, watching the weather tonight for next week, Austin's gonna have a few nights in the 30's & 40's, so I know I definitely jumped the gun and will have some okra plants that will be transplanted up to the 1 gallon Brown Boxers just to try to save them. Right now they're already about 6" tall. I've got some more okra just started that will go direct into the garden the middle of April.
Thanks for the encouragement. I just find it strange that all of us seem a little behind. Out here it's always about 7* lower then Austin, unless we have cloud cover. It should freeze tonight.
I'm right on schedule for tomatoes but I usually have sowed my peppers and eggplant. I don't plant out my tomatoes until the end of March, beginning of April. It just seems there's a lot to do, and it needs to be done right now and this cold weather and I don't get a long. But I can sow seeds and pot up in the house. Love tile floors.
Can you post a picture of the Brown Boxers? I guess the okra germinated? It likes to be about 86* to germinate. It will germinate at lower temps but it will take a lot longer.
We're going out of town this weekend, but I'll get a picture ASAP. Wasn't real thrilled about the stitching but the material looks great. If I could get the bulk material it would be great for an onion bed. I have had to pass on the onions this year since I don't have any place to put them, so wait until next year...
I bought onions I never said I had a spot for them. Lol. I think I'm going to plant the best looking onions in containers just to get it done. No matter how much I work the soil here it is still hard. I may do the same with the potatoes. My peafowl have a bad habit of pulling things up, that aren't in the fenced area.
I know they are sideways, but my daughter showed me current events today. carrots barely showing and she moved the little cedar planter.
Very nice !
Wow, Kitt! Looks great!