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Dinner on The Grounds
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Dinner on The Grounds |
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icequeen Senior Member
since 2001-12-09
Posts 633FL USA 
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Affixed by spindly spiny legs upon the flowered spikes in his crunchy armor black with little red racing stripes He devours my gladioli The coleus are long gone Dinner music provided by evening cricket song My rain lilies disappeared under his grinding little jaws The daisies all are missing hunks their leaves are fraught with flaws If he dined alone, I’d let it slide but he brings a lot of friends My poor garden suffers so this has got to end! I’m not one for chemicals and all that chemi-killing I’m open for suggestions if anyone is willing I need some good home remedies so send them, one and all How to get smushed locust off my nice clean walls? (yeah... fraught with flaws. Say THAT three times fast.) |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
I think a few of us know a good Bugman... He'll be here, soon enough... |
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icequeen Senior Member
since 2001-12-09
Posts 633FL USA |
hehehe... I almost put a disclaimer at the bottom apologizing to that Bugman about not wanting to use the chemicals! I promise to call on him if I can't get rid of the little chompers. They really are eating up EVERYTHING and driving me insane. I grow a lot from seed and they have just obliterated all my hard work! |
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Corinne Member Ascendant
since 1999-10-28
Posts 5167state of confusion |
Ha, nasty little buggers! Don't have those here, but do have some other troublesome bugs. What I really hate about summer is when the bugs start coming in the house to cool off! Cor |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
PLEASE DON'T POISON MOTHER EARTH with unnecessary chemicals. Email my friends at Rincon-Vitova Insectaries in Ventura, California,(rinconvitova.com) or call your local University agricultural extension agent for a possible biological or physical control method. HAHA, it sounds as if you found one effective physical method already.  But seriously, chemicals should always be the absolute last resort. |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
OK...I must say that you have found my weak spot....my thumbs are not green, never have or will be... BUTTTT....I can spray a mean chemical can... from 20 paces...blindfolded....standing on one leg....(Sure she believe me, can't you tell?) |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
icequeen Some life forms can be so irritating and destructive...but, enjoyed the humor you found while thinking of a solution. |
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esclandre Member
since 2001-06-11
Posts 62Northern California |
i can't even say it once! but i can say: this poem was great, this poem was great, this poem was great... does that count? *G* esclandre Je le Rêve, je Pleure |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
Hah. I should send my kitty over to help you - she has a thing for bugs...and dragging them all over the floor..mooshing them into the carpet. Poor monarch butterflies...and you know how I am about butterflies lol.. Egads it rhymes..yet, the humour saved it for me  heheheheehuggles you  K |
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