--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: F4200044 Date: 03/29/98 From: PAUL ROGERS Time: 11:06pm \/To: MIKE SPECHT (Read 2 times) Subj: Mice MS> I have mice in a row home around Philadelphia. I have tried poisoned I'm afraid you're stuck with them, as long as ANYONE has them. They'll find ways between units. ... Hark! What mail from yonder modem breaks? --- Blue Wave v2.12 [NR] * Origin: Noah's Kitchen, Portland, Or. 503-977-3934 (1:105/37) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: F4200045 Date: 03/29/98 From: JOSEPH RAMPOLLA Time: 02:51pm \/To: MARILYN BOISSONEAULT (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: Dwarf Blue Spruce MB> Hi, welcome to the Home & Garden echo! I'm sorry I don't know the MB> answer to your question since I live in Florida and Blue Spruce MB> doesn't grow around here. It's just a memory from years back when MB> I did live in the north! But hopefully some one here with have MB> an answer for you. Hi Marilyn, Thanks for the reply and words of welcome! I was a city gardener most of my life until the past few years. I am trying to take a 1/4 acre lot which has no top soil, only builders fill, and make it look like a well landscaped, established yard. I have used many bails of spaghnum and bags of cow manure, and hard work! I have followed Fido's model train section for several years, but never thought to look for a gardening echo. I just discovered this echo after the local board had a major crash and I had to look over the echo list. I will probably need help later this Spring when the Japanese beetles come for lunch! Take care, Joe. * SFEMB 0.53 [TS90002] * BBS TCode: 254AV - The Firehouse (717)633-9202 * Hanover,PA --- Alexi/Mail 2.02b (#10000) * Origin: THE FIREHOUSE BBS - HANOVER,PA 717.633.9202 (1:2700/911) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: F4200046 Date: 03/29/98 From: JOSEPH RAMPOLLA Time: 03:00pm \/To: BIRDMAN (Read 2 times) Subj: Perhaps rather than ... Hi Birdman, Thanks again for the info! The pergola idea is wonderful and makes the best sense. I was even thinking about a simple screen made with those lattice sections. I have to do something since it will just be a matter of time before I will have to replace that window again, the next time it probably won't be under warranty. Take care, Joe. * SPITFIRE v3.51 --- Alexi/Mail 2.02b (#10000) * Origin: THE FIREHOUSE BBS - HANOVER,PA 717.633.9202 (1:2700/911) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: F4200047 Date: 03/29/98 From: JOSEPH RAMPOLLA Time: 03:11pm \/To: MIKE SPECHT (Read 2 times) Subj: Mice Hi Mike, I have had the same problem with mice in a row home in Baltimore. You have to find exactly how the mice are entering your home and put up some sort of physical barrier. Usually they travel from house to house and no matter how much you do with traps and D-Con, they keep coming in. In my case, they liked to come in by way of the cool air return, and around the gas line under the kitchen stove. Because the basement had a ceiling, it was easy for them and hard for me to find the areas of entry. I used a caulking compound for cement repairs to fill all the holes. However, they still tried to gain entry through a 2nd floor bathroom ceiling. If your neighbors are cooperative and make the same kind of effort, you'll be successful. Hope this helps. Take care, Joe * SPITFIRE v3.51 --- Alexi/Mail 2.02b (#10000) * Origin: THE FIREHOUSE BBS - HANOVER,PA 717.633.9202 (1:2700/911) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: F4200048 Date: 03/30/98 From: SANDRA PEAKE Time: 02:20pm \/To: MARILYN BOISSONEAULT (Read 2 times) Subj: early El Nino spring ? MB>SP> pouring boiling (!) water over them and letting sit for 24 hours MB>SP> before sowing. And you have to give them a fair amount of room. They MB>SP> just keep growing till frost. And you clip only the tender ends of MB>SP> the stems. MB>I think I've heard you're supposed to soak the seeds overnight MB>first, maybe that'll be enough to get it started. Malabar MB>spinach also has to be soaked first to encourage it to germinate. MB>I assume it gets fairly large and I need to plant them a couple MB>of feet apart then? I've always been too chicken to pour boiling water on; so the 24+ hr soak is the way I go. Even so, it can take a month to sprout. Maybe next time, I will try the boiling water. :-) AAMOF, I have forgotten what the spacing for N.Z. spinach is, but it cannot be planted in close rows, as it's only the growing tips that are harvested. By frost, the many-clipped plant has branched and covers quite an area. ...Sandra... --- * QMPro 1.52 * First Rule of Intelligent Tinkering - Save all parts --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: The Fire Pit BBS Paris Ont (519)442-1013 (1:221/1518.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: F4200049 Date: 03/30/98 From: SANDRA PEAKE Time: 09:22pm \/To: MARILYN BOISSONEAULT (Read 2 times) Subj: been there, saw that MB>Anyway since I've been working outside so much I haven't done too MB>much replying to msgs. Spring snuck up on me, too, and I have to wean myself from this infernal machine long enough to transplant my seedlings and start my outdoors work. (Last week, we had the most snow of the winter. Now our flowers are starting to open.) MB>I'm so glad you got to go to Niagara Falls, It sounds wonderful. MB>I guess it's a full fledge theme park now by the sounds of MB>things. I don't think of it as a theme park, but I guess it could be. The Falls, although wonderful, are not as magnificent as 30 years ago before so much of the front of the American Falls crumbled. I keep wishing a giant hand with whisk and dustpan would reach down and sweep the rubble up. :-) MB>Oh you finally saw the cable car and the rapids, good! The MB>whirlpool is more famous I guess, I don't hear of the Rapids very MB>often. Refresh my memory, how far are the rapids and the MB>whirlpool from the falls? I was just a kid when I saw those so I MB>have a pretty fuzzy memory on that. :) About 4 miles. From the Cable car headquarters, the Rapids are to the right, the whirlpool to the left, and the rest of the river takes a sharp turn just to the left, then goes straight. MB>Thanks for sharing your visit with me. I enjoyed reading about MB>it, and hope some day I can see all those gardens and MB>butterflies etc. As I hope someday to revisit Florida. :-) ...Sandra... MB>SP> From there, I could barely see the promontory where I had stood on MB>SP> the US side and looked down at the whirlpool, which I DID know MB>SP> existed! Yesterday the Whirlpool was not as obviously MB>SP> circular, as the force of high spring water created many little MB>SP> eddies around the main turbulence. MB>SP> And then we finally got to see the butterflies. What a gorgeous MB>SP> end to a glorious day! It was a slightly belated 37th wedding MB>SP> anniversary.. and all I wanted to do was rush back to my MB>SP> non-functional computer and share it with you. Well, today my MB>SP> computer was restored; so here I am, burbling merrily on. :-) MB>SP> ...Sandra... MB>SP> PS. We turned back then, but had we continued, we would have seen MB>SP> the giant floral clock further along. I guess all those things MB>SP> still exist. MB>SP> -!- MB>SP> * QMPro 1.52 * I got lost in thought, it was unfamiliar territory. MB>SP> -!- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 MB>SP> ! Origin: The Fire Pit BBS Paris Ont (519)442-1013 (1:221/1518.0) MB>... Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity MB>___ Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 MB>--- Alexi/Mail 2.00 (#10000) MB> * Origin: Space Coast REACT, Melbourne FL <407> 255-9069 (1:374/710) --- * QMPro 1.52 * Tried to play my shoehorn... all I got was footnotes! --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: The Fire Pit BBS Paris Ont (519)442-1013 (1:221/1518.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: F4200050 Date: 04/01/98 From: CHRISTOPHER GREAVES Time: 05:19pm \/To: DORIS DIGNARD (Read 2 times) Subj: Stevia DD>Can you tell me a bit more about Stevia? This is the first place I've >"Botanical Solutions", 25 Kennedy Park Road, 416-766-6595. I DD>Is it a plant, a powder, crystals? I gather (LOUSY pun!) it's a plant. Edgar said something like "I took the tiniest part between my teeth and Wooo-ee! was it ever sweet!" I plan on checking them out late this week or early next. Christopher.Greaves@CapCanada.Com www.interlog.com/~cgreaves * 1st 2.00b #6263 * Honk if you love peace and quiet --- PCBoard (R) v15.3 (OS/2) 5 * Origin: FidoNet: CAP/CANADA Support BBS : 416 287-0234 (1:250/710) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: F4300000 Date: 04/01/98 From: TERRY BARKER Time: 05:17pm \/To: SANDRA PEAKE (Read 2 times) Subj: slugs -> TB>Would anyone know a good remedy for getting rid of slugs on hosta -> TB>plants? -> TB>Thanks Terry -> -> Hostas like shade and moistness - a slug's idea of paradise. The -> quickest cure is handpicking them, but there are squeamish folks out -> there. (You're not squeamish, are you, Terry?) -> -> The next best is employing a couple of ducks, but in a suburban -> setting, with a zillion duck-eaters (dogs) in the neighbourhood, and -> the necessity for good fences, most people can't do that one. (Not -> to mention that if you get any other ducks except Muscovys, you'll -> break anti-noise regulations. :-)) -> -> So that leaves mainly sand, diatomecious earth, crushed eggshells, -> and other gritty stuff to spread around the hostas. This is the -> equivalent of a slug mine field, and it takes a brave slug to risk -> it. But in REAL slug areas, ducks are by far your best bet. :-) -> ...Sandra... -> -> --- -> * QMPro 1.52 * I'm not a complete idiot; some parts are missing. -> -> --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 -> * Origin: The Fire Pit BBS Paris Ont (519)442-1013 (1:221/1518.0) Sandra, I have some ducks down stairs in the closet. There wooden, does that make a difference? :)) Thanks for the info. By the way, where can I find diatomecious earth? I'm on a low cholesterol diet so I don't have that many eggs to crush either. Bye, --- ViaMAIL!/WC4 v1.30 * Origin: ViaMAIL! - The Private Sector BBS (612) 436-2629 (1:282/4088) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: F4300001 Date: 04/02/98 From: DIANE BRUCK Time: 03:57pm \/To: MARILYN BOISSONEAULT (Read 2 times) Subj: grass PESTS MB>-=> Quoting Diane Bruck to Anyone <=- MB>DB> Is there ANY way to get rid of those little flying pests? They looks MB>DB> like tiny flying ants....I call them gnats. MB>I hate those things, and I don't know how to get rid of them MB>either. Sure hope someone here knows the answer to that one! MB>Marilyn DB} I talked to a nursery and this is what they said: at the larva stage (good timing on this one) spray with (sp) nemotodes dirtzban (or sound it out as best anyone can- they didn't spell it for me either). sprinkle ground with boric acid and also try dietamashearth. It is organic and you just sprinkle with a ketchup bottle. Anyone else out there heard of these things??? --- * OLXWin 1.00a * Somedays I feel like a pigeon, others like a statue. --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: COM-DAT BBS (1:105/314.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 208 HOME & GARDEN Ref: F4300002 Date: 04/02/98 From: DIANE BRUCK Time: 04:04pm \/To: TERRY BARKER (Read 2 times) Subj: slugs TB>-> TB> Would anyone know a good remedy for getting rid of slugs on hosta TB>-> TB> plants? TB>-> TB>-> Yep, them pests love beer. Put a saucer of beer out where they can TB>-> crawl into the saucer, and they will take a swim in the suds. They TB>-> can't swim, soz they drown in the booze. Try it for a laugh! TB>-> TB>-> =Don= TB>-> TB>Thanks, Don TB>I'll try it.. db] Terry... when you do this be ready to watch them. They REALLY do act drunk. They normally move slow (like a snails pace-pun intended). My two daughters didn't believe me so I did it and they were shocked as to how they reacted. I use it and now that my new neighbors DON'T take care of them they now come over to visit my yard. If hubby doesn't (toss) them back home then I use the beer method. IT WORKS GREAT! Just remember to but the beer in jar lids **outside** the garden so they don't come into it........ good luck!! --- * OLXWin 1.00a * It's Or E Gun not Or E Gone!! --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: COM-DAT BBS (1:105/314.0)