Recent content by Barndog56

Potato fields around here get sprayed heavily, mostly by plane, for Colorado potato beetles. I pick them off my potato plants by hand and give them to the chickens. If I didn't they would defoliate them in a week. No way the big farms could do that. Some potato farms also spray herbicide to...

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I doubt either one will go anywhere.

You could try using goats as herbicide. But that would only work if your desirable species regrew faster than the weeds the goats were taking out.

I got rid of it with Triclopyr 4 from Keystone Pest Solutions. I mowed it off and then sprayed 2 weeks later when it was regrowing. Triclopyr will kill all of the other broadleaves it touches too though.

One of the three ingredients in the new residential formulation of Roundup toasts grass in just a few days.

If all I can get for apples this fall is $.40/lb I won't even be picking them, let alone spraying them.

Yes, $1k would cover the standard apple program for a year, although there would be no doubt be some leftovers of some of the 7 products for the next year. That comes out to $6.67 per tree. Yes, it's all organic.

I'm cheap, because I'm poor, so do my best to find inexpensive ways to fertilize and protect my apples, vegetables, and dahlia field. That means using things like my own compost and comfrey tea, and trying to attract beneficial insects. There is one company, Advancing Eco Agriculture, that's...

There is a shooting range on the patch of public I bow hunt. My stand is often about a half mile from the benches. Deer will walk thru while some guy is burning up an entire week's pay thru an AR.

Excellent list. A couple more are Early Figwort, which is not visually impressive at all but the bees adore it, and Giant Hyssop, which along with Bee Balm has to get the most use here. Delphinium is an early one that hummingbirds love and is ready right when they get here in spring. Common...