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Thanks Shed! I like all seasons as it is just good to be alive, but right now, with the buds growing proud it sure is a very visually rewarding time of the year!
I just wish I didn't have to feel like a criminal growing some of nature's own plants, I mean f*ck, it's not as if I have genetically engineered some new Frankenstein plant that is going to endanger the world. Actually, if those selfish arseh*les who voted against this, just tried it, they'd probably be able to replace their sad sour faces with some happy smiles.
Cheers Fred! For this year's grow when I amended the soil over Winter, I included a source of Chitin (dried prawns) and a source of the enzyme Chitinase to release it (diastatic malted barley), both of these are advocated by Jim Bennett in his Coots mix. I understood they can help the plant gain greater resistance from insects, I don't know whether that helped, but so far I have felt my plants seemed be much cleaner from bugs this grow that I missed 4-5 weeks of doing preventative spraying. However since spotting the caterpillar I BT sprayed and followed that up with a Neem spray a day later. And yesterday and today I picked off other caterpillars that were all looking somewhat catatonic, or should that be cannatonic, with the caterpillars I picked off today looking decidedly slimmer than those I picked off yesterday so I think the spray is working. I'll just have to watch out for the resulting damaged budlets to make themselves known!Very tasty looking girls on the balcony!
We get budworms here so I screen in my girls outdoors. I think the BT spray has to touch them to work and budworms eat deep.
You are going to have sore scissor fingers in no time! Smile and stay stoneder
I notice too that it is only the Godfather that appears to have any caterpillars on it. It has a nice subtle sweet fruity type smell to it, so that must have attracted the butterflies more than her 2 neighbours on either side. Anyway, I'm on to it!
. I find enlarging pics on the screen is the only way I can see any detail these days. My vision all my life until recently was really good and sharp, but since I have got glasses I feel it's even worse 
. I hoped that with the brakes on global travel because of Covid, that it might help delay ageing a bit, but unfortunately there was no delay, I still ended up departing for my annual, and 61st orbit around the sun.
gorgeous mate ! , very nice work , love pics also, stay gardening though
i lOVE it . free nutrients from scraps , no work at all , I now add to my compost teas , 
