Re: Swiss Chard

dstack 12/12/2014, 1:01 pm

sanderson wrote:Dstack, Wood board or heavy piece of cardboard. You have to give it a try. You may be surprised what crawls up under them. You have rain basically all year around, correct.

I used a board last night and I only had a couple of millipedes under it this morning. So no surprise here.

Very Happy

has55 12/12/2014, 1:03 pm

sorry to repeat.
"sanderson, please forgive my ignorance, but this is the place to asked naive question, What are you doing with the jars? putting sluggo in it or just using tilted jars for the slugs to climb into it? "do you have any pictures?

**camprn** 12/12/2014, 1:15 pm

dstack wrote:
sanderson wrote:Dstack, Wood board or heavy piece of cardboard. You have to give it a try. You may be surprised what crawls up under them. You have rain basically all year around, correct.
I used a board last night and I only had a couple of millipedes under it this morning. So no surprise here.

Excellent!!!

**sanderson** 12/12/2014, 3:20 pm

Dstack, good.

Has, I put a little SP in theme. It's raining. I'll take an in-place photo maybe tomorrow.

has55 12/13/2014, 11:39 am

Sanderson, what is "SP" and "theme" mean in SFG?
dstack, have you found any other insects under the board?

boffer 12/13/2014, 11:42 am

lol That's a tough sentence to understand!

SP=Sluggo Plus

theme=them

**sanderson** 12/13/2014, 2:32 pm

Oh, crud. I should have taken the extra seconds to write out the name and proof read.

I put a little Sluggo Plus in them (baby food jars on their sides, opening pointed slightly downward). Makes a dry bait station.

dstack 12/14/2014, 11:26 am

has55 wrote:Sanderson, what is "SP" and "theme" mean in SFG?
dstack, have you found any other insects under the board?

Nope. Just a couple of millipedes. I did the board test again last night with one end lifted slightly and the only thing there this morning was 1 millipede.

martha 12/14/2014, 11:53 am

Marc Iverson:
I remember you saying that and my thinking it was a really good tip. Now if I could only remember what I remembered without people reminding me to remember it, I wouldn't have so much trouble remembering stuff worth remembering

Sanderson:
Marc, I will take a photo and that will help you remember to remember what I told you to remember.

Martha: Priceless!

has55 12/14/2014, 11:35 pm

martha wrote:Marc Iverson:
I remember you saying that and my thinking it was a really good tip. Now if I could only remember what I remembered without people reminding me to remember it, I wouldn't have so much trouble remembering stuff worth remembering

Sanderson:
Marc, I will take a photo and that will help you remember to remember what I told you to remember.

Martha: Priceless!

+1

has55 12/14/2014, 11:38 pm

sanderson wrote:Oh, crud. I should have taken the extra seconds to write out the name and proof read.

I put a little Sluggo Plus in them (baby food jars on their sides, opening pointed slightly downward). Makes a dry bait station.

thank you sanderson and boffer for the interpretation and instruction.

**sanderson** 12/14/2014, 11:45 pm

I par boiled, chilled and froze these Kales and the rainbow chard. We can't keep up eating them but eventually we won't have any growing. Oh, I guess that's what a good home garden is for. Swiss Chard - Page 3 Harves14

has55 12/14/2014, 11:47 pm

sanderson, they are beautiful.

has55 12/14/2014, 11:51 pm

dstack, this may be helpful identifying what's is the culprit. it still looks like the cabbage looper to me.
swiss chard-disease , pest and problems

CapeCoddess 12/26/2014, 10:59 am

boffer wrote:lol That's a tough sentence to understand!

SP=Sluggo Plus

theme=them

Well done, offer! You are amazingly good at this. Must be all the practice.

It baffles me that this late in the season my kitchen garden chard is still getting eaten. I'm guessing slugs because the cabbage butterfly has been gone for ages.
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dstack 2/14/2015, 11:08 pm

I'm glad I didn't give up on my swiss chard. The past few weeks the millipedes have totally left it alone and my chard has been growing nicely again. Just had to report that good news.

Very Happy

**AtlantaMarie** 2/15/2015, 8:37 am

That's great, Dstack! I'm happy for you!

I put mine out with the pansies I planted in an old bird bath. They didn't make it thru the freeze, unfortunately...

CapeCoddess 2/15/2015, 10:13 am

Mine are under 4 ft of snow at the moment. Wonder if they'll come back in spring...?
CC

**camprn** 2/15/2015, 10:29 am

CapeCoddess wrote:Mine are under 4 ft of snow at the moment. Wonder if they'll come back in spring...?
CC

not likely. Sad

has55 2/15/2015, 10:58 am

Ours is still growing nicely thru this fall and winter. tonight it will drop down to 32 degrees with wind chill of 22 degrees ant 3:00 AM
give update later

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