Re: [CH] TMV in the GardenToday
Rosemary Basil (rosemarybasil@yahoo.com)
Mon, 12 Apr 1999 15:57:32 -0700 (PDT)
Byron, Am I reading this correctly?
Are you actually challenging all us pepper growers in
places other than the northeast in a BATTLE OF THE
BUGS? Saying you have MORE KINDS of bugs so that's why
you need to use tobacco? Now I've heard it all! In the
south when it doesn't freeze, I know bugs multiply and
grow bigger and more fortified it seems! You should
see the size of some of these city beetles and
caterpillars and the holes they CHOMP CHOMP! Not to
mention da marsh and swamp lands of da bayou! LOL
I've only been here maybe a month but I think a lot of
these posts are getting downright combative and
childish. Rain, I agree with your general appraisal. I
think I'll follow you as soon as I clarify where I'm
coming from.
I didn't mean to contribute to any disruption here but
just want to say to all those who are so anti-American
and anti-Bill when innocent lives are being lost over
religious or ethnic differences it's time to put
politics aside. Aren't we lucky to have this FREEDOM
to rant and rave here?
I hate war and I actively protested Viet Nam. Yet when
I handed flowers to the military in Central Park on
Armed Forces Day, it was a gesture of love for life
not hate for them.
This conflict reminds me more of Hitler than Nam.
If some idiot were to say all Chileheads should be run
out of the country and their houses burned, maybe
you'd hope somebody would offer you some help. War is
sad and ugly but I have to support my fellow soldiers
in harm's way. When I tie a yellow ribbon in my
garden, I am promoting PEACE and LOVE not praise for
Bill C. or anything else. To me a BLACK ribbon
symbolizes DEATH HATE and DESTRUCTION and this world
doesn't need any more of that.
If you plant a garden you learn to appreciate LIFE
If you only eat its harvest you just don't git it!
Also, I want to say to Jim & Mike I know these lists
have to be managed especially when they reach the size
this one is. I have several lists and online clubs so
I can empathize. I run my lists a little differently
so I may not fit in here. I maintain a high tolerance
for tangentitis as long as it is not mean-spirited & I
believe variety is the spice of life. That's the way
it goes with gardening. You start to transplant the
peppers and notice the pot is not draining well, you
poke a few holes in it then notice it could look
better so you get out your paints and paint it.
Meanwhile some white flies show up so you make another
batch of Voodoo Mist then it starts to rain so you run
to pull the fragile seedlings in, by then you're
hungry so you go pick some basil and tomatoes and find
some tunes to play that probably have nothing to do
with chiles it goes on and on...
As I writer, I like words. I like to foster humor,
vignettes and personal anecdotes that make life
interesting and I never was one for lots of rules. I
guess I am sometimes naive and childlike when I should
be looking at the big picture.
People say to me, "you sound like you're having fun!"
I have to say "No, I just look harder to find it
sometimes."
I won't apologize for this being so long, it BUGS ME
(back to original subject, LOL) when people do that.
You know where the delete buttons are too :)
Off my soap box (& maybe, like Rain, on no-mail for
awhile)
Rosemary Basil
"Pepper Gardener for Peace & Love in the Garden"
--- "Byron.Bromley" <Byron.Bromley@Gsd-Co.Com> wrote:
In the Northeast we have to deal with
>
> Green Peach Aphid
> Melon Aphid
> Greenhouse whitefly
> Silverleaf whitefly
> Banded wing whitefly
>
> Colorado Potato Beetle.
>
> Cutworm
> wireworm
>
> Pepper maggot
> Tomato Hornworm
> Potato Leafhopper
> IO Moth
> greenfruit worm
> pyramidal fruitworm
>
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