those work good with dry goods. It is good for keeping ground coffee fresh too. Rice dry, etc. It let me buy in bulk without worrying about when I was going use it. I quit using it because I didn’t have a convenient place to store it. But I just remembered where I think I put it. 
3 Likes
Ah! Ha!
There you go. We store ahead on rice too.
A use now for those 1/2 and one gallon canning jars.
Thanks guys. You’re the best.
Steve Unruh
6 Likes
How in the heck do you guys keep the dang corn worms away?
Every single ear of my corn thus far has been attacked by them. Do I need to get some bird feeders to encourage birds to eat them?
I don’t want to spray a lot of chemicals.
1 Like
I always add “organic” to the end of searches for like ‘corn earworm control organic’.
Then you see stuff like Steinernema riobravis which is a nematode which may reduce the problem of it developing in your soil. Some nematodes will attack
cutworms Heterorhabditis bacteriophora and Steinernema carpocapsae.
This is more information then most farmers know about corn earworms.
3 Likes
Based on the study it seems they don’t affect Field Corn as bad. That’s great because I’m growing Hickory King Dent(heirloom) next year. This was Silver Queen sweet corn. Got the best ears hanging to dry so I can save the kernels for growing again. The other 12 or so ears I’ve got in the fridge for Mom along with all the bush beans I picked today. Those bushes were really wimpy, I hope the Pintos I got for next year will grow better.
5 Likes
When the corn first starts tasseling put a drop of mineral oil on the tassels of each ear and it helps 90 0/0.
6 Likes
You can actually use any oil like olive, corn, rapeseed, etc. They get trapped in it and die like a dinosaur in a tar pit.
They get in field corn. But usually they give it a bunch of nitrogen to ‘beat’ the prime moth period. They get into cotton and soybeans too.
I also hesitate to believe the cited 1940 study that says they don’t overwinter. I suspect some find a way.
Corn pollen travels up to like a mile. Chances are the seed has pollen from other plants in your area. It is also a hybrid so chances are it is multiple years of breeding to achieve that variety. Even if it self-pollinated, it will be a mixture of things.
4 Likes
This being labor day weekend and a lot of folks will be bbq .
Bring on the meat and we can cook also . ( old video from 10 years ago 
11 Likes
That must be kosher corn Cody. It’s all been circumcised.
2 Likes
Trust me you don’t wanna see what those caterpillars did to the tips. Nasty stuff. I tossed that outside for the squirrels.
1 Like
Just showed this the youngest. Do they drive ? YES, they do! Take a look at this… Really? Yes, really…
Thanks Mr Wayne
5 Likes
Getting sick of this rainforest intermittent downpour stuff.
It’ll stop for 20 minutes and when I have something ready to work on, the bottom just falls out again.
1 Like
“Hornets, Wasps, and Yellow Jacket bees, Oh-My!”
Just three days ago my wife was commenting how odd neither of us stung yet this year.
Two weeks ago washing up the 'ol pickup truck from unuse for a full year it was keeping ahead of the girls under the gas tank flaps; inside the doors; and under the hood edges for yellow jacket nests. Total of eight of them. No patent spray left so I used silicone spray. Works. Asphyxiant.
The little girls have found two more pop up in a week wasps nests out playing. A splash of gasoline does the trick, better, quicker. And gets the fly-back-home ones then too.
Two days ago the right hand; stings nailed, moving aside a loose part roll of R-22 fiber glass insulation to long store boxes of set asides for the wife. Little tiny hornets.
Yesterday the left hand shifting scrap wood. Ground wasps. Drop that board! Sweep off the hand! Then run like hell far away in a zig-jag! Run around the nearest building corner!
And my three southside of house yellow traps are filling up from out of the old board and baton.
The first hand itches now, to beat the band.
'Nother day on the 2nd hand and then back to gloves and fire-wooding.
Hands actually better after my bee-sting arteritis treatments once settled in.
Face and neck stings the ones I work hard to avoid anymore. People stare.
S.U.
6 Likes
Funny true story. A guy had a field full of sweet corn with earworm on it, and no one would buy it. So he husked it, cut off the end, packaged it in a flat tray with clear plastic sold it. and it sold quickly. So they bumped up the price and sold it for a premium.
The boiling process kills and sterlizes it, or as my dad would say, it is just extra protein, but cut the ends off and no one ever knows.
4 Likes
Yeah I have to think about my mom with a lot of stuff like this. She’ll probably eat the lions share of it.
We also just broke the end off it. or if it was a long streak, cooked it and cut everything else off the cob. We packaged and froze a lot of corn too.
If you pick it when the corn just filled out, it is more tender and sweeter. The worms don’t have as much time to grow. most commercial canned/frozen corn is picked way too old, but the kernels are bigger so they get a higher yield.
2 Likes
Giving the generator a little exercise. Just running my welder. I have the main hoop finally welded to the frame. Just cutting out some bar stock for reinforcements. It seems running the float bowl empty when you’re done is good practice for this Predator engine. Good to know. Pulled first time with choke applied after I opened the petcock.
5 Likes
I finally caught the stupid woodchuck living under the porch! It attacked the cage my elderberry cuttings were in*. I think because I used worm castings and so it smelled like worms. (fyi worm casting are not a replacement for potting soil, I just keep forgetting to pick some up. )
*I use a curbshopped bunny cage with plastic around it. I thought the girls would like a pet, but their mom doesn’t want them to have any so it got repurposed.
2 Likes
Many years ago learned the hard way to fill the hollow rungs on aluminum or composite ladders with foam. Not good went you have gotten up about twenty feet and they decide to come out for a welcoming party. Oh yeah. Talking about yellow jackets. Also Don’t you guys out in that area have those Killer wasps?
7 Likes
Remember when I made the comment to close off the cross members on my flatbed? Ya I’m tired of being stung and even worse when the boys get it. Then things get fixed with aggressive fire.
8 Likes