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Re: Poison Ivy

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> I'm not even sure this is the way to go about entering in to convo. with
> the square footers on this list.  I once considered myself computer
> literate, but I haven't had a computer in two years and you know how easy
> it is to get behind the times in the computer world.  I had never even
> been on a web site until a couple of months ago.  Hopefully I'll get a
> little training or something to bring me up to the new millennium.
   This is a nice opening shot.  Nice to halve a little background.

  I have had red sails,
> butter crunch, and romaine lettuces, that are finished now and I have
> replanted the same.  It may be too hot now but this particular block in
> the front yard only gets sun morning till around 1:PM so I thought I'd
> try again.
   If you do hav good luck then consider succesive plantings next year so
that they don't all finish at the same time.  I plan to let some of  my
lettuce go next year to see if it finaly heads up or goes to seed.

I planted a few bunching onions and garlic in this same block
> as well as a couple of sweet pepper plants.  Only one of the pepper
> plants have fruit and then only two peppers.  They are large though.
> This is the block with the whopper tomato plant and it shades the peppers
> so I guess that is why I have so few peppers.  I planted nasturtium in
> this block also, and they are so pretty.  This is really the first time
> I've tried planting flowers of any kind other than the standard marigolds
> for beneficial purposes.  I really like the added color and we eat the
> nasturtium in our salads.
   I put in a wall of giant sunflowers and morning glories which are about a
foot high.  They better hurry and grow They get the same [ tea] each day as
the veggies do.

> In my two 8'x3' beds I have planted corn and two different kinds of
> crowder peas.  Most of the corn in one bed is about eight inches tall now
> and the peas are doing well.  The other bed gets a little more shade and
> not as many of the corn seeds seem to have sprouted.  It was also a
> different type of corn, so maybe that's the problem.  Time will tell.
> I'm learning anyway.  I really like the way it all looks, though I still
> have quite a lot of empty spaces to plant yet.  I'm planning on a fall
> garden as well.
   Corn starts a little slow then gets going after the first six inches to a
foot.

> Also, would the colloidal silver would be good for chigger bites?  They
> are really bad this year and my grandchildren look like they have the
> chicken pox.  I get bit but they don't affect me the way they do the
> children.  Does anyone know how to get rid of them?

   Good luck with the chigger bites.  They are nasty little critters.  Watch
out for lime tick disease.  My garden is right next to a small swamp and I
halve a terrible mosquito problem.  I get an infection from each bite and it
stays around all summer.  I usually put on off before I go to the garden but
keep another can there in case I forget.  I wonder if it would help to plant
citronella on the swamp side.  The plants look delicate and don't halve a
heavy smell to them

Jim allAn zone 5 New York State
Northeastern USA.


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