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 Post subject: Re: Post Your Favorite Flower Photos
PostPosted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 5:53 am  (#161) 
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Beautiful color of blue Kevin. You don't see too many flowers of that color around.

I have lots of Salvia, but none that color.

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 Post subject: Re: Post Your Favorite Flower Photos
PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 3:38 pm  (#162) 
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Not a flower but it's still pretty. It's a Cherokee Purple Heirloom tomato. This one weighs in at 14oz..

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 Post subject: Re: Post Your Favorite Flower Photos
PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 3:39 pm  (#163) 
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wow that is a biggie. Don't tell me you grew that from that tomato patch of yours?

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 Post subject: Re: Post Your Favorite Flower Photos
PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 3:48 pm  (#164) 
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Yep, it was 100% organically grown in my backyard tomato patch. :bigthup

I have lots of fruit on the vines.

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 Post subject: Re: Post Your Favorite Flower Photos
PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 8:53 pm  (#165) 
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saw this in a garden store last month.

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and this in front of some guys home:

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 Post subject: Re: Post Your Favorite Flower Photos
PostPosted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 11:07 pm  (#166) 
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I LOVE Cherokee Purples...have grown them myself. I have only one heirloom this year...Eva Purple Ball. They are open pollinated so they reseed and we grow the volunteers every year.


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 Post subject: Re: Post Your Favorite Flower Photos
PostPosted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 8:31 am  (#167) 
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Those sound great, 2-ton. I think I'll try 'em out next year. They're supposed to love the hot weather so they should do well here.

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 Post subject: Re: Post Your Favorite Flower Photos
PostPosted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 9:41 am  (#168) 
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I know another thing that loves and thrives in hot weather...it is those dam bugs that are eating and stripping the leaves off all my flowers. It is very frustrating.
I replaced a lot of them already and it is still happening. Since insecticides are banned here in Canada and they are selling all this stuff that is supposed to be environment safe, all it does is break your wallet, it doesn't work and it is three times the price of Killex, which we used to use, but can't get unless we smuggle it from the States. grrrr

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 Post subject: Re: Post Your Favorite Flower Photos
PostPosted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 10:45 am  (#169) 
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You can try BT (Bacillus Thuringiensis) for caterpillars and other leaf eating insects. It's an excellent natural biological product.

http://homeharvest.com/bt.htm

Also,

Soaking a couple of garlic cloves in mineral oil, with a little pure non-detergent soap, makes a good organic repellent.

Below is a link to a nice list of organic repellents you can make yourself.

http://www.comfycountrycreations.com/bugspray.htm

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 Post subject: Re: Post Your Favorite Flower Photos
PostPosted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 9:12 am  (#170) 
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we use sevin powder...probably not legal in Canada either. It kills the japanese beetles that love to eat flowers but it also can kill bees...I try to powder the blooms before they open enough to get the powder on the pollen areas.


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