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Dumping some dye in seems like a pretty easy fix. Is it just so worthless it can’t be seen at all?

Those sound like cucumber beetles. They can have either spots or stripes. Squash bug and stink bugs are pretty similar. Slightly smaller than a dime. Gray colored. Stink to high heaven when you kill one with your fingers. Sevin is toxic to bees so I always spray my pumpkins in the day time...

Anyone ever use this? If so does it work? If I’m spraying I usually procrastinate enough I can follow my progress by watching the tire tracks in the weeds. To be safe though I overlap and have often wondered how much spray I waste doing that. Thought about trying the dye if it works and doesn’t...

I’m jelly. They’re a constant fight for me every year I plant pumpkins. Sevin does nothing for mine either. Have to mix up permethrin and be vigilant with spraying just to keep up with them. Sevin does work on cucumber beetles tho for me

I don’t know how it is in Iowa but here in mo I stopped mulching around pumpkins in my garden. Gives the nasties a place to hide and avoid the insecticide. Squash bugs are especially bad about doing that

Cleth burns clover? Thought that was grass specific. Learned something today

I’ve never known God to be wrong. Just a matter of if we’re willing to see what He sees. I’ve found it wise to endeavor to do that as much as possible. My problem is I often fail in that endeavor and choose to see the right now vs the tomorrows. Good on ya for recognizing the opportunity

Did you do any spraying before or after mowing? The wheat maturing doesn’t upset me. This plot has a bad marestail problem and the fast growing wheat seems to have slowed it down a good bit. I like that greatly. Still a few growing in it along with some thistle but the weed count in this little...

My big plot is about 2 acres. Last fall I squared off maybe 1/4 acre and broadcast cc and ladino clovers with ww as a nurse crop. This spring I frost seeded a little extra ladino into it. My plan was to terminate the ww this spring to provide a cover of sorts to aid in water retention and weed...

I’ve got a 60 gallon fimco sprayer with the retractable booms. It works well but the dumb thing has no drain plug. Has anyone installed a drain plug in one or something similar that has worked? If so how’d you do it?

How do you guys roll up and/or remove your wire at end of season? I used poly tape one year and while it was relatively easy to remove I wasn’t particularly impressed with its effectiveness. I’m thinking about using just regular old steel wire this year but am concerned with how much of a pain...

I planted 2 acres of rw beans. They did hold up well to browse. I had them fenced but I don’t really know how much of a deterrent it was once the plants got big. If they are shatter resistant I’d hate to see what they’d do if they weren’t. I was walking around my fence late season on a day with...

Darn good firewood

I’ve got a 120x40ft garden I’m not going to plant any vegetables in this year. Thinking about planting something that will put some nutrients back in the soil. Anything I plant will be tilled back in. I considered doubling up on something like turnips/radishes, tilling them in, then replanting...

How long does it take that tordon to spread? I’ve killed a lot of russian olive with it the last few years but have not seen any evidence of it spreading

This isn’t really related to land prices but how do you guys navigate sales where one chunk is broken into individual tracts that have no obvious fence or boundary between them? I’ve seen multiple times where an agent will just draw lines on a plat through open fields and call that the new...

I once watched a pack of 4 chase down a longbeard. He couldn’t fly but was running from them. My guess as to why he couldn’t fly was one had nipped him already. The gob was in pretty bad shape. He actually took to the water and somehow floated there like a duck when the dogs wouldn’t go in after...

So they’re eating the pumpkins themselves and not the plant? If so at what stage of pumpkin fruit growth do they start eating them? That’s wild to me. I’ve literally never had a deer eat one. Squash bugs and cucumber beetles tho are the devil

I had the same experience this year. 3 years ago in mid October I watched and heard deer eating the turnips and radishes. It literally sounded like a person biting into an apple. Time late season rolled around about everything was gone. This year they didn’t touch them til late season. They...

That’s an interesting thought. I planted sorghum as a screen once and noticed it kept getting knocked over in random spots. I initially thought wind til I watched a herd of does come up and shoulder it over til they could reach the heads with their mouths. They certainly eat it for sure