Veg ARGH!!!! I am SO angry!!

ioujc

ioujc

MARANTHA!! Even so, come LORD JESUS!!!
So, I have been planning to sell vegetable starts at the local Farmer's Market as soon as the real days of Spring arrive. I have a few things going already, and one of them I was very happy with was my sweet potato slips, I had about 30 of them growing, they were rooted and everything and I had started another three bowls of them. They are selling now in the garden catalogs for about a dollar per slip.

My 4 month old Great Pyrenees somehow reached up on the kitchen counter and got the cups I had them growing in and took them in and ATE them in my bed!! Not only did she destroy several months of pampering them along, but I then found chewed up vegetable greens strewed all over my bed!!! GRRRRR!

I love her to pieces, but she does LOVE to get into things!! OK, I guess the plants all need to go into the spare bedroom and with a grow heating mat under them! She also enjoys eating or chewing up shoe laces>>>>I think she has gotten them out of every pair of shoes I have!! Oh what a naughty girl!! When I scold her she just looks at me, wags her tail and SMILES!! What a sweetheart but a little devil at the same time!

Oh well, it's back to the drawing board!!
 
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ginnie6

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We won't introduce her and Rufus ok? OMG! Shoelaces are not safe around him. He's the worst. If you leave your shoes out he's going to get them, no ifs, ands, or buts. I've told everyone and told everyone so if their shoes get chewed it's on them. Right now he's determined that he is going to be the dominant dog here, Reese is 9 and has ALWAYS been top dog. I've seen her put fear into a full grown Rottie and German Shepard that towered over her. This little punk though is giving her a run for the money. I'm having to watch constantly if they are together as I'm afraid he will hurt her. This is NOT how I pictured having a 2nd dog. He's getting snipped next month so I'm praying he will settle down a bit.
I'm sorry about your plants. I know how heartbreaking that is. I had a fig tree start that I had managed to get going and keep going last year and once I put it out of the greenhouse to get ready and plant it fireants of all things decided that pot was the perfect home. They killed it so I killed them.
 
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NCGirl

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Oh my goodness, I had to laugh a little as I can imagine my dogs doing that, but I also know how awful that would be to have worked so hard at something....
 
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summerthyme

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I had a cutting I took from a line of the most tremendous weeping willows I've ever seen. I managed to get one to root, and it was growing really well in an 8" pot. I was planning on transplanting it by our pond.

I went out one morning last summer, and Maggie had found it... chewed up the pot, the rootball and the baby tree itself. Grrrrr...

Her obsession, though, is electrical cords... she was in the basement with hubby yesterday and he sonehow didn't notice her chewing the plug off the cord to the Craftsman Shop Vac. One item l set aside while packing, so we have immediate access, is the bitter apple spray!

Summerthyme
 
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ioujc

ioujc

MARANTHA!! Even so, come LORD JESUS!!!
ginnie 6>>>>I understand completely!

I have hated fire ants since I was about 12 and unknowingly stood in an huge ant hill! They first crawled up the outside of my jeans and then got inside. I was talking to the boy I had a crush on and so I was entranced with him>>>>>>UNTIL they got inside my jeans and started biting me!!

You never SAW anybody come outa their britches as fast as I did>>>>>and it WASN'T because of the boy!!

I ripped those jeans off and ran across the road in my undies>>>RIGHT into my Uncle, who was a missionary and was visiting us!!! Looking back on it, I guess it was hilarious, but it certainly wasn't funny then!!

Man when those fire ants lock onto your skin, they DON'T let go!! I was trying to scrape them off and it was killing them, but they were STILL leaving their heads attached to my flesh!!! I had huge welts all over my legs and ran fever for several days>>>>KILL THEM ALL is how I look at things!!
 
ioujc

ioujc

MARANTHA!! Even so, come LORD JESUS!!!
YES!! That is a GOOD idea Summerthyme!!

I have some Bitter Apple. I will begin to use it>>>>>especially on my shoes!!
 
Txkstew

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Faroe said:
Makes no sense to me.
I've bought plenty of aphid infested plants from properly licensed vendors.
So, what is that law supposed to protect us all from?
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When I was in the Nursery Business, the Texas Agriculture Inspector would show up at random times. I always got along with them, and since I sprayed my greenhouses often enough to not get infested, but would always have some pest load, they didn't cite me. The inspector would walk up and down each aisle, looking under the leaves of the plants. He always found something. All he would do, is tell me to take care of it and spray. Mealy bugs, White Fly, Red Spider Mites, Thrips, and aphids where the big ones, but even Fire Ants where considered nuisance pest. If there was a problem that a grower didn't take care of, and sold plants on the market, the Inspector could quarantine your whole operation until you got it under control. If not, they could order all your crop destroyed. A license was $15 a year for my size operation, but soon it was doubled, and then a few years later, tripled to $90. I'm sure it's well over $100 now days.

They also started getting into EPA regulations involving worker exposure to pesticides and signage for re-entry times after spraying. I told the Texas Inspector that this was an unfunded Federal Mandate, and was prohibited. He didn't have much to say about this, and dropped any future issue with it.
 
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Txkstew said:
When I was in the Nursery Business, the Texas Agriculture Inspector would show up at random times. I always got along with them, and since I sprayed my greenhouses often enough to not get infested, but would always have some pest load, they didn't cite me. The inspector would walk up and down each aisle, looking under the leaves of the plants. He always found something. All he would do, is tell me to take care of it and spray. Mealy bugs, White Fly, Red Spider Mites, Thrips, and aphids where the big ones, but even Fire Ants where considered nuisance pest. If there was a problem that a grower didn't take care of, and sold plants on the market, the Inspector could quarantine your whole operation until you got it under control. If not, they could order all your crop destroyed. A license was $15 a year for my size operation, but soon it was doubled, and then a few years later, tripled to $90. I'm sure it's well over $100 now days.

They also started getting into EPA regulations involving worker exposure to pesticides and signage for re-entry times after spraying. I told the Texas Inspector that this was an unfunded Federal Mandate, and was prohibited. He didn't have much to say about this, and dropped any future issue with it.
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Yeah, generally, if you work WITH these guys, they will work with you.
 
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First thing I lost with my current pup was my backup glasses. We're talking $500 to replace, even though the scrip was old, they were still useable. We just discovered a ruined mattress by our sick (now dead) cat. Speaking of money, my 11 year old dog went to the vet for itchies. $450 later, vet says maybe it's fleas. Well it's not, but gotta rule it out. $$$$$$$$$$$$
 
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summerthyme said:
I had a cutting I took from a line of the most tremendous weeping willows I've ever seen. I managed to get one to root, and it was growing really well in an 8" pot. I was planning on transplanting it by our pond.

I went out one morning last summer, and Maggie had found it... chewed up the pot, the rootball and the baby tree itself. Grrrrr...

Her obsession, though, is electrical cords... she was in the basement with hubby yesterday and he sonehow didn't notice her chewing the plug off the cord to the Craftsman Shop Vac. One item l set aside while packing, so we have immediate access, is the bitter apple spray!

Summerthyme
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Oh, goodness! One time when we were renting, I had a small rose plant -- a family heirloom -- in a big container in the house. Our dog pulled it out of the pot one night and ATE the whole thing!! I was so mad!

And I have a really heavy-duty 100' extension cord that I use outside quite a bit. I didn't bring it in fast enough last week, and our Maggie (young livestock guardian dog) chewed the cord and the plug. This was a $150 cord, originally purchased to plug the travel trailer in, so I'm going to see if I can replace the plug. I need the cord for a number of things -- I have a couple of other heavy extension cords, but none of them are as heavy as that one.

Kathleen
 
Bidadisndat

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Having seen our dog Rusty in her yard a couple of times a neighbour asked if we had seen any odd crocs lying about our house; Seems like hers had slowly been disappearing, but strangely enough only the left foot of each pair went missing.
We hadn't seen any around our place but one weekend I had to do some work under the laundry area of our house., and what did I find there but a pile of crocs! The only full pair belonged to our youngest daughter who had been most upset about losing them. It was only this morning when sorting out stuff in the garden shed that I found them again and we all had a good laugh at the memory of how they'd originally gone missing. He died a couple of years back but I still sure do miss that dawg.
 
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Slydersan

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Faroe said:
Makes no sense to me.
I've bought plenty of aphid infested plants from properly licensed vendors.
So, what is that law supposed to protect us all from?
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It's not to protect us from anything - it's another way the parasites, ahem sorry politicians, can suck money from us.
 
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