Wild grapes (unsprayed)
Jewelweed, the hiker's friend
Fresh from the garden (not mine, alas)
Every where you look fields have been turned into vineyards
What you're likely to meet on a back road
Village Lane in Orient, where I'm going to move once I win the lottery
Enlarge pic and read the red sign. Glad they have some.
Ladies clamming
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The wild grapes look like they been visited by my arch enemy ~ Japanese Beetles..do you get them there? I loathe them so much!
Every morning armed with my coffee can half filled with water and a dollop of dish soap I do the rounds..."Oh, good morning Mr./Mrs. Beetle, do drop into my fine accommodations, hope you have a pleasant stay!" and with a flick into the coffee can they go.
It is a dilemma with me, I want to spray the heck out of them with some mighty toxin, but I'm not willing to compromise all the other wee beasties that visit my garden. Hence the coffee can, and the internal dialogs. :) Sometimes it seems like an exercise in futility.
I really like the picture of the vineyards, the neat orderly rows containing the unruly vigor of the vines...nice!
Ok, I know I could Google it, but I'd rather hear your explanation. Why is Jewelweed a hiker's friend?
Why is jewelweed considered the hiker's friend?
Jewelweed is a good antidote to poison ivy or insect bites. You break off or pull up stems, prefereably down near the ground where they are most juicy and you scrumble that up in your hands and you put the juice on the afflicted spot. Within a few minutes it doesn't itch any more. Jewelweed is often found growing near poison ivy.
Yes, we have a Japanese beetle now and then. I don't kill 'um, though. Not my responsibility. I felt the same uninvolved way this morning...I was walking on the beach and there was a baby turtle lying there at the tide line, golf ball sized Had just been washed up. I picked it up and thought, "what should I do?" It was very lethargic so I concluded it was almost dead. Besides, why should any one do anything about it? I put it back in the water and walked on. You can't solve every problem in nature. But now I'm going to look it up and see what kind of turtle it was.
Thanks for the information! I'd never heard of jewelweed before. I'll have to look for it. I don't have to worry about poison ivy since it's never bothered me and I don't think I've ever seen it out here in Colorado.
Interesting about the jewelweed...it is always trying to encroach into my garden.
If I didn't try to contain somewhat the Japanese Beetles they would quickly devastate my garden. It is amazing how voracious they are. Even with my vigilance one of my hibiscus plants has lost over half it's buds.
Yes, you have lots of good stuff to attract the beetles so you have a much bigger problem than I.
I now think the baby turtle was a land turtle. It had claws rather than flippers. Perhaps the salt water killed it. The underside had orange trim. The top was dark with about 12 plates.
Totally off topic, if I am ever so fortunate to travel to Paris, I will be sure to leave the micro lens home.
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.. had to laugh about the jewelweed - I didn't know what it was handy for - I thought maybe a substitute for TP ?!?!? Glad to find out that it has a much better use .....
just looked at the large picture of the jewelweed - does it have thorns?
No, it doesn't have thorns.
It doesn't have hairy legs either.
(grin) Thank goodness!!
Biddie,
The leaves on the Jewelweed really isn't big enough to be a substitute for TP. You'd do better with skunk cabbage leaves because of their size.
[grin]
Skunk cabbage is named that for a reason, Oppy. Would you really like to carry that odor on with you?
I know it is called that for a reason. There was plenty of it around in the woods near my house in BH.
Let's see..... both the skunk cabbage and the "brown stuff" really smell bad so it's a toss up on that. Using the larger leaves allows you to wipe the "smelly brown stuff" off your butt and it won't end up in your panties so you won't have to feel that yucky stuff on you until you take a shower or bath and you won't have to wash your panties (at least for that reason) right away. I think that's a plus for the cabbage.
Take you pick! The lesser of 2 smelly evils!
The wild grapes that were unsprayed, do you know what's been chewing on the leaves? It looks very much like what's been chewing on some string bean and tomato leaves as well as some other plants in my yard.
Could be Japanese beetles, as Cheryl said. I took that picture at a school playing field. All sorts of things were growing lushly and of course there'd been no spraying.
I kind of doubt it could be Japanese beetles. I've never seen them out here but they ran rampant in BH when I was growing up. My father put out traps that would fill up in a few weeks. I believe the climate is too dry for them in Colorado. What I should do is take a sample to a local nursery (which I've done in the past for other problems)and find out what they say.
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