Bottom watering container vegetables

Thanks Dreamer! Id much rather smell like Listerine than Deep Woods Off

Thank you Karen
Some thing else to add when you get a Mosquito bite..Put a dab of anti bacterial soap on it..Very effective in stopping the itching

I forgot to say the sooner you apply soap the better it works

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Thanks, Tubbytee,
I've been scratching two bites I got 2 weeks ago, as if it was just this morning....

Another tidbit..My X wife sent this today..Never heard this before..But I'll try it if I get Stung
This information may be something to remember, as this
> season will soon
> be here again....
>
> It might be wise to carry a penny in your pocket while
> working in the
> yard.......... BEE STINGS !
>
> A couple of weeks ago, I was stung by both a bee and hornet
> while
> working in the garden.
>
> My arm swelled up, so I went to the doctor. The clinic
> gave me cream
> and an antihistamine. The next day the swelling was
> getting
> progressively
> worse, so I went to my regular doctor. The arm was Infected
> and needed
> an antibiotic.The doctor told me - " The next time you
> get stung, put a
> penny
> on the bite for 15 minutes".
>
> That night, my niece was stung by two bees. I looked at
> the bite and it
> had already started to swell. So, I taped a penny to her
> arm for 15
> minutes. The next morning, there was no sign of a bite.
> We decided
> that she just wasn't allergic to the sting.
>
> Soon, I was gardening outside. I got stung again, twice by
> a hornet on
> my left hand. I thought, here I go again to the doctor for
> another
> antibiotic.
>
> I promptly got my money out and taped two pennies to my
> bites, then sat
> and sulked for 15 minutes. The penny took the string out of
> the bite
> immediately.
>
> In the meantime the hornets were attacking, and my friend
> was stung on
> the thumb. Again the penny. The next morning I could only
> see the spot
> where
> the hornet had stung me. No redness, no swelling. My
> friend's sting was
> the same; couldn't even tell where she had been stung.
>
> She got stung again a few days later upon her
> back---cutting the grass!
> And the penny worked once again.
>
> Wanted to share this marvelous information in case you
> experience the
> same problem. We need to keep a stock of pennies on hand
> .
>
> The doctor said that the copper in the penny counteracts
> the bite.
>
> It definitely works!
>
> Please remember and pass this information on to your
> friends, children,
> grandchildren

The "Bite Stick" dabber thingy for mozzie bites is just household ammonia. It works quite well. have not tried it on gnat bites, though.

Penny for your thoughts... http://www.insectstings.co.uk/sting-acid-or-alkali.shtml

Ed

Wulfsden: My thoughts: I've tried the copper penny thing years ago, it works for me. Now, as far as the mind control thing the author was speaking about, I'm wondering, if that will work with pest control too, such as in "I know this stuff I'm using to kill off the bad bugs will work" "
I know this stuff I'm using to kill off the bad bugs will work" and it will work, I'll go for that if it works. LOL Right?
joy

Heh Heh Joy,

I may be wrong here, but I think it's the bugs that have to believe its going to work. So if you sprinkle your tomatoes with talc and they think its DE, they run away. :))

Ed

Ed: Darn too bad it doesn't work the way I thought, oh well, got cot and shotgun handy, and for animal lovers they could always have cot and tazer handy right?
joy

About the mosquito bites. During my illustrious military career, I began to think southeast Asia was my second home. One thing I noticed, mosquito's would flock to me but just ignore the asian standing next to me. It seems their diet, which contains a lot of garlic, makes their skin less delectable to mosquito's.

I was working in a tight enclosed area once with a Laotian sargeant. He breathed on me and I flinched. He laughed and asked me if his breath smelled bad. I told him it smelled like garlic and dead fish. He told me americans breath smelled like sour milk and was yukky. Who knew?? And the mosquito's were ignoring him and making a feast of me.

Jaywhacker: So; you should eat more Italian right? LOL
joy

Jay I think we Hyjacked your thread..Sorry
The Texas Deputy will have us in cuff's (her self too) LOL
Another hint from My X Wife (We all have a good relationship)...

Got this info - not sure if it works but worth a try
I haven't had the need to try this yet..
I'm sure I will befor summer is past
We have 4 dogs 4 cats..It will happen LOL


How To Remove a Tick

Bet it would work on dogs too.

Spring is here and the ticks will soon be showing in heads. Here is a good way to get them off you, your children, or your pets. Give it a try. Please forward to anyone with children... or hunters or dogs, or anyone who even steps outside in summer!! A School Nurse has written the info below -- good enough to share -- And it really works!!I had a pediatrician tell me what she believes is the best way to remove a tick. This is great, because it works in those places where it's some times difficult to get to with tweezers: between toes, in the middle of a head full of dark hair, etc.



Apply a glob of liquid soap to a cotton ball. Cover the tick with the soap-soaked cotton ball and swab it for a few seconds (15-20), the tick will come out on its own and be stuck to the cotton ball when you lift it away.



This technique has worked every time I've used it (and that was frequently), and it's much less traumatic for the patient and easier for me. Unless someone is allergic to soap, I can't see that this would be damaging in any way. I even had my doctor's wife call me for advice because she had one stuck to her back and she couldn't reach it with tweezers. She used this method and immediately called me back to say, "It worked!"



Please pass on. Everyone needs this helpful info!

NOw, what ya got for chiggers??? LOL

No sweat. I get so confused that I steal my own thread now and then. Would someone please remind me what the subject is?

I went back up to the first post to see what it wuz we wuz tawking about. Oh yes.......growing in a water bed......something I tried over 20 years ago and wont to try again. Im delaying now because I am having a wet spring and mosquito problems that I have never had before in the ten years I have lived on this ridge top. My water beds will be on top of raised platforms, unlike twiggybuds, which are slightly recessed into the ground. Seems like her duckweed, toads and frogs and lizards are taking care of the mosquito's in her ground level beds. I dont think they would in my platform level beds so I will wait untill hotter and dryer weather gets here to experiment.

So........to fill in the time........I will just take off on another rant. You knew that was coming, huh. :-)

Question::: What is the difference between a so-called self watering container and simply sitting a container in a water bed? The SWC has a "wick" of grow mix sticking down into the water to siphon water up and through the grow mix in the so-called self watering container. By comparison.....set a container in a water bed and the grow mix in the container will siphon water up into the grow mix. What's the difference?? Water is being wicked up to the upper part of the container where the plants are planted. As long as you keep saying to yourself, "Self, you got to take yourself out to the garden to put more water in them so-called "self-watering containers" or into that water bed." Either way......you are the "self" in the so called self watering container systems.

Some of the things twiggybuds has learned are interesting. For instance, she uses what she calls cheap grow mix and that stuff can vary from bag to bag and season to season. It is basically a rough mix of some kind of dirt and course bark as I understand it. It apparently doesn't wick water very well because she reported some containers have brick hard dirt in the top of the pot while it is sitting in a bed of water. But the plants keep growing and producing profusely.

Another thing she mentions is that taller containers do seem to work better than shorter ones. Is this because a plant would have a wider choice of dry mix at the top of the container to moist mix in the middle of the container to absolute water in the bottom of the container?? Plants can just sip or gulp, its their choice. Just a matter of sending their roots to where the action is. Is it that simple? Are we violating the 'experts' rules about some plants cant stand 'wet feet' and others only grow well in 'dry' conditions. Will we be ostracized and not allowed to post on the organic or hydroponic forums for growing plants in this blasphemous fashion?

If I were to fill a container with a spike of fast wicking grow mix in the center of a container surronded by ground pine bark and set it in a water bed, could I market this thing as a so-called self watering container? The sales hype will be.............give your plants a choice. Wetterheck on the bottom, moist and yummy in the middle, drierthanhades at the top................On second thought, the minute I spent a small fortune to make and market this thing, you guys would just say, shucks, I can make one of those myself and make it a lot cheaper than some of those other so-called self-watering containers.

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Jay, I think this would work fine. Looking up "wicking beds" from australia. It's very similar. The main difference between your idea and the SWC/wicking beds is that in the latter, the water is more contained, so less evaporation, but also harder to set up than your idea. If heavy evaporation is a problem in your area, or you don't like watering frequently, go with the containers. If evaporation is only moderate, and you don't have the time/energy to do all the digging, drilling, assembly, definitely do your way!!

The taller/verses shorter container, from what I've been reading, has to do with the ratio of water reservoir to soil. I'm guessing you need about 1:5 or 1:6 ratio. If I were a plant, I would like the options of which type of soil I wanted at any given time, and having a balance of all the choices. :-)

Selling/patenting your containers? I say go for it. Strawbale gardening, SWC, even square foot gardening have all taken off, why not yours?

Thanks for the extra ideas, breaker. I was just joking about patenting something. Besides, as you point out, water beds are not something new, neither are some type of "wick" drawing water up to a plants growing area. Some of the folks that has been doing this have some good ideas and experience to pass on to us. And it can be much less expensive than the current trend of expensive self watering containers. Thanks for the links.

Thanks for posting that info beaker. I've been thinking about something similar to the wicking beds although I didn't have a name for it yet. I was thinking it might slow evaporation by continuing to use my pots but filling my water beds with water plus chopped trees from the folks trimming the power lines. Wind and heat causes a lot of transpiration so I haven't really figured out what I'm losing to evaporation. I know a pile of raked leaves will stay damp for a long time regardless of the weather.

Must say I intend to avoid the leaves... they bring the slugs and snail headaches.

Jaywhacker....I found a VERY reasonable source for daylilies...when I did a search for a golden iris I had years ago. Their prices are the very best for a retail buyer that i have ever come across: http://www.gilberthwild.com

Well what happened is that I ended up buying a bunch of daylilies, some of them that I had been wanting for years...they have a great selection. I had no intention of buying any daylilies, but the prices and selection drew me in and they delivered quickly as well. Actually I got more than I ordered as many of them divided right away.

Evelyn