Mary, Mary, How does your garden grow?

[Jim Balister]

This year the only thing that came up in my garden was tomatoes. Everything else never saw a bee. I replanted three times. Another problem was that a white fungus grew on all the plants except the tomatoes. It looks much like what is on the trees around here. I also hear that the mold or fungus is on trees all around the country. Here is a picture of the white stuff on a tree leaf. My brotherinlaw says that his lawn furniture is also covered with white powder. Now has anyone els had this problem?

[edina]

Hi n2ziasm, I checked out your link, good, helpful info. I also took a closer look at the baking soda and corn meal remedies, as well. The whole site is helpful, thanks for the lead in here... e

[Cheryl Nelson]

I rechecked. My squash leaves have it.

[edina]

Bio-dynamics has a solution for fungus, it is the horsetail tea, if you have a plant in your area with a high silicate content it may work in a similar way. Evidently, it draws the fungus back into the soil where it belongs rather than on the stems and leaves of your plants.

[edina]

Something else happened here that I think Irma and Blavatsky may find interesting. We visited some Hopi earlier this summer. While we were there we had Hopi tea, our friends showed us the plants that they use for Hopi tea. They did give us a few of the flowered plants so we could recognise it, now in the past month this flower is popping up all over our place. We drank it, we liked it, and now it is joining us on our property.

There have been at least 4 new plants come into our area that I have never seen before. This is one of them.

[edina]

I did something a little different this year, I'm trying to incorporate some of Machelle Wright's ideas of working with Nature. This year I'm working mostly on infrastructure, building raised beds, terracing a slope in the garden, and have chosen to let the garden go and observe. It's prolific, I have volunteer sunflowers, corn, carrots, lettuce, I'm letting all of this go to seed. I specifically asked Nature to help guide and prepare me for the coming years where everything will be in huge flux.

The beds and infrastructure I am building this year is a part of the plan that I and Nature have co-operated in developing. I have a humongous catnip plant, it now looks like a shrub, which I learned from jj, at the PS Ning before I was suspended was good as a mosquito repellent. I live in the high desert, and we never have problems with mosquitoes. This is the first year we had them. Our weather here is becoming increasingly humid.

We also have a number of natural herbs that are volunteering that I am trying to learn more about.


I'll be harvesting the seed most likely this next week, and then pulling the sunflowers, some are wild, and some are the domesticated seed type. My plan is to feed the weeds to the goats, and pigs for fodder, then to gather the leftover stems, and put them in an old water tank to soak over the winter. Retting is what I think this is called. Then, early next year I will pound and pull the fiber to save for trying to learn how to spin, probably next fall. Since I will continue to be focused on setting up a garden increases the carrying capacity for food, fodder, and fiber in the space I have available.

My neighbor does have beautiful tomatoes this year, too. As well as squash.

[Jim Balister]

I have an apple tree that cought the same mold last month as did my neighbor and the leaves fell off completely. The tree looks dead. If I get a chance I will post a pic of it. I suspect that the culpret is from chemtrails.

[Jim Balister]

Kim, bees love hollyhocks! The bees never bother with me. They fly right into my face, have a look then leave. It is like a reconition. I am talking the yellow jeckets. There are a few around here but they stay out of the garden. However they did like the rasberries.

[Kim B]

It was so dry and hot here in July that no mold could have survived. I had to keep watering my garden, or I would have had no corn, no melons, no carrots, and no tomatoes. Oh, but the squash bugs (stink bugs) were so plentiful, they did in my squash plants (I should have sprayed neem more often but didn't too hot outside).

[Jim Balister]

I gave up three weeks ago and let the weeds take over. Each year seems to get worse. Might as well be living in the desert. At least there you can grow prickely pears. Might have to grow everything in a green house just to keep it clean and free from mold.

[Kim B]

Bees - we got em everywhere, especially the black wood borers with the yellow shoulders. My daughter hates walking past my hollyhocks because they are usually covered with those black bees.