Article: 35 Pest and Disease Remedies
OK, so I'm reading down the article, and it all sounds good & well, then I get to the very last section, "Corn gluten stops weeds before they start", and read this:
"Professor Nick Christians and other researchers at Iowa State University found an amazing use for corn gluten meal, the tough, sticky, elastic by-product of milled cornmeal. The protein-rich corn gluten meal contains an herbicide that inhibits root formation during germination, and this effect lasts for months."
So what was the good professor using - GMO corn? Is that why it "contains an herbicide"? Since most of the corn grown worldwide is now contaminated with GMO strains (thus the ruckus in Mexico over contamination of their original corn strains), I will assume the worst - that he was using GMO corn. What everyone needs to know is that the sperm of male lab mice fed GMO corn failed to penetrate the female's egg, thus the GMO made them impotent. There's no way I'll ever use any GMO products on anything living. Think about it.
For an insight into what "science" has been up to, watch "End Game" on google video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1070329053600562261
Edited 7/21/2009 3:58 am ET by AHH
Edited 7/21/2009 4:02 am ET by AHH
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(post #12028, reply #1 of 30)
I found alot of the article to be inaccurate and dreck. I was surprised and disappointed to see FG represented by the information contained.
Jeana
Never try to baptize a cat.
(post #12028, reply #2 of 30)
I was thinking "shades of Jerry Baker", and same old, same old.
(post #12028, reply #3 of 30)
That's an appropriate analogy. Wow, windmills stuck in the ground for moles. Why didn't anyone come up with that one sooner? Oh wait. Yeah, if something is out of sight long enough, there's a whole new crowd to buy into it.
Jeana
Never try to baptize a cat.
(post #12028, reply #4 of 30)
I was told to bury empty beer bottles up to their necks. Supposedly the wind blowing across the mouth makes a noise that drives the moles off. Works almost as well as windmills and ultrasonic devices. And it's cheaper unless you don't drink beer.
Marty
"The plants have been good to us." Lester Hawkins
Marty
"The plants have been good to us." Lester Hawkins
(post #12028, reply #5 of 30)
Hey, in Michigan that will cost you 10 cents a bottle.
(post #12028, reply #6 of 30)
You can get them for 5 cents a bottle in NY.
(post #12028, reply #11 of 30)
Yeah, Michigan is in a class by ourselves. Did you ever see the Seinfeld episode where the mailman and Kramer decide to make some money by loading the mail truck full of empties and driving them to Michigan? They are actually trying to figure out ways here to keep people from doing that. Stores near the borders in Michigan have quite a problem with that.
(post #12028, reply #15 of 30)
I lived in Ann Arbor. I thought about doing that. It's too bad that everybody has to cart those nasty empties around in order to get them recycled. When we lived there, that was back when Cokes were still in glass, even the big bottles. We drank alot of water when we lived there.
Jeana
Never try to baptize a cat.
(post #12028, reply #19 of 30)
"I lived in Ann Arbor. "
How embarrassing to have to go thru life admiting that one did such!
Go Green!
(post #12028, reply #20 of 30)
OK, I admit that I lived in Ann Arbor for about 18 months also, back in the mid 80's. But I drove "home" to Lansing a lot, so maybe it doesn't count.
(post #12028, reply #21 of 30)
Well, now to admit, I, too suffer from being in a mixed marriage.
That football game in October has it's issues.
(post #12028, reply #26 of 30)
My honey is obsessed with professional football more than college ball. He's an Eagles fan who watches the spring draft and tries to visit the training camp at least once a summer. I tell myself to be grateful that at least he isn't painting his face and bare chest and trying to get on national TV at the games.
Edited 7/24/2009 1:53 pm ET by Catskill Deb
(post #12028, reply #24 of 30)
Wow, we almost overlapped. We lived there from Sept '87 to May '88.
Jeana
Never try to baptize a cat.
(post #12028, reply #25 of 30)
I was on Third Street, not that far from the Stadium either! I never saw so many middle-aged men in plaid pants struggling up hill past my apartment on game day.
(post #12028, reply #27 of 30)
I'd never seen people use their yards as paid parking lots before. So many people flowed by in front of the house in an endless stream that one of my young cats jumped up on the screen door and just hung there, looking at the spectacle. I even got a pic of her doing it. Suicidal squirrels the size of cats, too.
Jeana
Never try to baptize a cat.
(post #12028, reply #28 of 30)
Boy, that takes me back. I really hated living in Ann Arbor. Everything was so dang expensive there, especially the rent, and all my friends were somewhere else.
(post #12028, reply #29 of 30)
Yes, it was absurdly expensive. The grocery shopping was crazy. There was really only one store, never enough checkers, and always at least five people in line. I had an infant at the time and I wasn't amused.
Jeana
Never try to baptize a cat.
(post #12028, reply #23 of 30)
I lived two blocks from the stadium. Sunday, during games was the best time to do grocery shopping. No water pressure at half time, though.
Jeana
Never try to baptize a cat.
(post #12028, reply #7 of 30)
Let's see, 10 cents for a bottle of beer (emptied) or 29.95 (plus shipping) for a windmill... hmmm...I'll go for the beer! (and it's a nickel in Oregon too).
Marty
"The plants have been good to us." Lester Hawkins
Marty
"The plants have been good to us." Lester Hawkins
(post #12028, reply #8 of 30)
That's a really old one, too. First, I don't drink beer. Second, can you imagine the mosquito problem I'd have if I did that? Third, all those "remedies" for moles have been debunked for years and years.
In my case, they end up lost in the garden and I'd hit them with the shovel then have to pick out glass from my precious soil. HOWEVER, I saw an article years ago where an artist was using alternative materials in the garden. He got the idea to buy (in bulk) tempered glass bits to mulch with. It looked great, but what a nightmare. As I was roguing out mole tunnels the other day, I found myself thinking about the tempered glass bits. Oh what sweet revenge that would be.
Jeana
Never try to baptize a cat.
(post #12028, reply #9 of 30)
I didn't mention this sooner for numerous reasons; I had a client who poured crushed glass in the mole runs. It's effective, the revenge is sweet, but I can't do that to them.
Marty
"The plants have been good to us." Lester Hawkins
Marty
"The plants have been good to us." Lester Hawkins
(post #12028, reply #10 of 30)
It's not that I can't do that to them, I can't do that to me or anyone who may ever work in the soil here. It's too bad it doesn't degrade in a few years.
Jeana
Never try to baptize a cat.
(post #12028, reply #30 of 30)
smashed glass in the holes --that's what my father-in-law did when he couldn't get the rats out of his sheep barn. It worked like a charm...
zone 6 gardening in the woods with 30,000 deer
zone 6 gardening in the woods with 30,000 deer
(post #12028, reply #12 of 30)
What, never heard of the old chewing gum remedy?
(post #12028, reply #16 of 30)
Good old juicyfruit. I figured Marty was kidding since the bottles was also suggested in that article. But when he said it, it just suddenly occurred to me about the water collecting and breeding skeeters.
Once upon a time, I used to sink 2 liter bottles into the garden with holes drilled into the bottom so that I could fill the bottles with water and water more deeply. One year when I was pulling them up, I found one with the biggest spider in it I'd ever seen. That was the last year I used those things.
Jeana
Never try to baptize a cat.
(post #12028, reply #17 of 30)
What, you will go after water snakes, but a spider scares you? They eat lots of bad bugs. I'll take the spider over the snakes any day.
(post #12028, reply #18 of 30)
Snakes eat a lot of bugs too. I've read that they eat slugs and snails also, but I don't believe it. I have a lot of garter snakes in my garden, and lots and lots of slugs and snails.
(post #12028, reply #22 of 30)
Snakes don't have eight legs and run up your body at lightning speed. And the ones here don't have venomous fangs. And it was a GIANT spider. Don't judge me!!
Jeana
Never try to baptize a cat.
(post #12028, reply #13 of 30)
I thought he was kidding anyway. After all, he said "works about as well as the windmills", meaning not very well, right?
(post #12028, reply #14 of 30)
That's what he meant; works about as well as chewing gum.
Marty
"The plants have been good to us." Lester Hawkins
Marty
"The plants have been good to us." Lester Hawkins