Spring Gardens: Whatcha growin’?

[Russ]

Winter here but wife has greenhouses. We picked our last cuce last week. Winter crops are in, sprouts n cabbages, we love cabbage.

Russ

[Boots]

Sooner Mizz Boots doesn’t permit spray synthetics so we resort to other means.

Have a poop yard in the back end down by the creek bottom where we scatter the “processing” to dry out some. Don’t leave in piles. Then about every 2-3 week I take the JD yard tractor with a mulching insert and literally mow the stuff - shreds it into pulverized pulp. This dries it even faster. Dry pulverized poop is unattractive poop for flies to nest in.

On top of that, Mizz Boots spreads fly predators around - you can order them live online via a monthly subscription service. They are a teeny tiny anti-fly insect that attacks, bores into, and murders flies. A beautiful natural remedy. On top of that, we hang bell jar fly traps around the place too with the stink bait in them - just add water and hang to a tree or fence with a zip tie. Good feedstores carry them. This takes care of most of the common houseflies, cattle black flies, and even horse flies. The only ones we have occasional severe issues with are the stray robber flies (big big eyed dragonfly looking buggers which I swat with my Sombrero Del Muerte - the Cap of Death aka my ball cap), deer flies which are nasty mottled winged demons that are rare but blazing fast and really bother Ol Tunder, and rarer still, the satanic Bee Fly, a big fuzzy caterpillar looking bugger with an enormous sharp needle nose sticker about an inch long. Occasionally aggressive, these little devils seem to like human flesh, but are a bit ponderous and slow with a distinctive loud audible buzz which serves as a good alert. I have downed several of these little cretins, once with a lucky shot from my Bernzomatic shop torch. Gave him a squirt as he made a head on kamikaze run straight at me, flamed him good and he augered straight into the ground, whereupon I administered the old “coup de Boot”. We used to see a lot of Bot flies around this area many years ago, but haven’t in years. I think pest control and vastly improved animal working over the years has largely eradicated them.

Now, if only Russ would ship us some Aussie ant eaters, maybe we could get a handle on the fire ants.

And when I have time tomorrow I will post the missus’ latest fly killing contraption she bought - looks like the Death Star but even more frightening to me (mainly because I found out what it cost(.

[bsooner75]

Thanks Boots! I didn’t spray the garden just the yard. These things are driving us up the wall. I’m going to look into those mail order fly assassins!


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[GRailsback]

The Viking is on to something, Boots would look great in burnt orange crocs.

[OldUsedParts]

The Viking is on to something, Boots would look great in burnt orange crocs.

Maybe with those installed lights that come on when the Horns Score, instead of when the foot hits the ground

[Boots]

The Viking is on to something, Boots would look great in burnt orange crocs.

Maybe with those installed lights that come on when the Horns Score, instead of when the foot hits the ground

No orange crocs. I am allergic to orange.

Sooner below is the hi tec fly killer

[bsooner75]

Oh snap…I looked up the price on that thing.


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