Budding: Tin foil? No for me! For the squash!
One recommendation was to wrap tin foil around the vine where it is just coming out of the ground. Done. Another recommendation was to take vine and bury them at strategic points as fail-over in the event that the Vine Borer takes out the original base of the plant. Done.
I noticed a Squash Vine Borer moth on the wing out the corner of my eye.
It’s on.
I grab one my bamboo poles (yes, there are better tools for this sort of task) and charge at the moth. It’s pay back time. The moth’s ruse to look like a wasp just makes me all the more motivated to do away with it.
The moth is easily dodging my poor attempts to kill it with a bamboo pole whose radius of lethality is the same as a toothpick. A fury of swatting is taking place with little success. I start yelling vulgarities at the moth as we all know such verbal abuse is proven to immediately stun it. It’s seems the moth is hard of hearing. The moth is still easily dodging my attempts to splatter it in to atoms.
Eva bolts out of the back door. She been hearing all the commotion and thinks I am now fighting for my life against a large Kodiak bear. It is not a bear. It is a moth. Eva rolls her eyes and retreats back in to our hovel. In all my skill with the bamboo pole, I have managed to disarm the killer banana pepper by chopping off one of it branches. Yeah, I meant to do that.
The moth flies off.
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Sparky Klystron's Butternut Squash progress journal
This entry is about Sparky Klystron's Butternut Squash that
was previously in the East Bed garden.
Euless, Texas, United States
Buzz buzz buzz!
Listen in on the Grapevine
Cmagnus wrote:
I hate when that happens.
Posted on 30 Aug 08 (about 3 months ago)
Wenjomatic wrote:
Buggars!
Posted on 30 Aug 08 (about 3 months ago)
Sparky Klystron wrote:
The story is true. Eva watched me run around like Yosemite Sam and laughed.
Posted on 31 Aug 08 (about 3 months ago)
Wenjomatic wrote:
I’d like to have a cup of coffee with Eva sometime while we watch you go at it. Maybe dinner with the show. Hehee.
Posted on 31 Aug 08 (about 3 months ago)
Happibun wrote:
Damn. Moth 1 Sparky 0. :-(
Beautifully told though. I wonder, would it improve the show if you wrapped the tin foil around you instead of the squash?
Perhaps not :-)
Posted on 31 Aug 08 (about 3 months ago)
Nax wrote:
Next time tell Eva to bring a camera. (Um, Eva is a person, right? Not your dog? Cat? Pet Kodiak bear?) And don’t discount your success with the banana pepper. I’ve heard those things are sneaky.
Posted on 31 Aug 08 (about 3 months ago)
Sparky Klystron wrote:
Good idea on the camera.
Eva and I have been married for 27 years.
No indoor pets. We feed a large family of sparrows that have taken over a large martin house that belongs to our neighbor . An obnoxious squirrel called Foamy, whose addiction to sunflower seeds is a disgrace of the community.
Oh, and the opossum. The opossum uses the fences at night as its own personal highway for wandering through the neighborhood at night. I discovered the Opossum presence on summer night while siting out back. The Opossum has assumed the role a night janitor and cleans of the spills from the feeders left by the sparrows and Foamy.
Posted on 31 Aug 08 (about 3 months ago)
Kat Powers wrote:
OMG! I think you’re a neighbor!
Honestly, we have ’possum, squirrels planting peanut trees in the yard and something that likes to eat eggplant leaves.
Do you have turkeys too?
Posted on 31 Aug 08 (about 3 months ago)
Sparky Klystron wrote:
No turkeys that I know of in Euless, Texas.
Posted on 31 Aug 08 (about 3 months ago)