Out of the Box Incest Control
There are many out of the box insect controls. This atricle
tells of some of the best low cost and envirementally friendly
ways of controlling pest insects.
Put up a bat box. A single bat can eat 1000 or more mosquitoes
in asingle night.
Put up bird boxes. Baby birds need to be feed insects. They
can't digest grain. Thus an increase in birds will mean a
decrese in the insect population.
Create a habitat for lizards. Bring them home if you seeone and
release it near a rock wall.
When on a walk in the fall, if you see a praying mantis nest,
bring it home and place in on one of your shrubs. It is a great
benificial insect.
Bring home frogs and toads if your landscape has a suitable
place for these critters. They can eat countless bugs in a day.
Catch a skunk that is a a friends home in a have a heart trap.
Place a blanket over the trap and slowly bring home the skunk in
the back of your truck and release it near your property. These
smelling old timers love grubs and cutworms.
Don't kill your snakes. These slithering reptiles eat mice,
bugs, and beetles. Yes, the gardeners worst pest. Do you hate
Japanese Beetles? Give them away. Always remember to give away
your beetles. Never place a beetle trap on your own property
unless all residents of your area are attempting to control
beetles. The reason is that you will most likly attract more
beetles to your landscape than you destroy. If you are trap
minded the best idea is to give them away.
Yes, It is better to give than to receive. This old motto is
even good for Japanese beetles. Japanese Beetles can be
controlled with traps that lore the beetle with food and sex
attractants. These are generally a bag trap that one hangs 4-5
feet off the ground. It is never a good idea to place them near
your plants that they will eat. So I simply suggest give them to
your neighbor at Christmas!!! If you want, hang the trap on open
space area trees near your property. Thus the beetles will be
dirtected away from your property.
What we do on the farm is we hang the trap on branches of a tree
that overhangs our pond and open up the bottom. The little
critters fall into the pound and our fish clean them up. What a
way to recycle and not have to empty the traps.
Some of the effected popular flowers and trees favored by the
beetles are:
annual asters astilbe canna cosmos daylilly delphinium hollyhoch
iris marigold peony roses zinnia Linden trees purple plums
When you sign up on our web site to our mailing list, you will
receive more of our unusual gardening and landscape tips along
with many free tree and plant offerings from our surpluses that
we have. Go to our web site at http://www.seedlingsrus.com
This is a copy of my most recent email newsletter. This was an
overwhelming success.
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January 2006
The Early Bird Gets the Worm---Don't Delay Free Tree Day Jan.
28th is a Free Higan Weeping Cherry Tree Day
Greetings! January 28, 2006 is free Weeping Higan Cherry Tree
Day.....All members of our email club can receive a free Higan
Weeping Cherry when you bring your pickup to our 5275 West Swamp
Rd. Fountainville Pa. location. These trees are 10-12' tall and
in 24" baskets. These trees must be picked up on the 28th,
before 5pm. sorry, no rain checks. There is a limit of one per
family and you must have been a member on or before January 27,
2006 of our email club.
Sincerely,
Bill Hirst Free Tree Day Jan. 28th, 2006 is Free Tree Day
5275 W. Swamp Rd. Fountainville, Pennsylvania 18923
January 28, 2006 8:00AM-5:00PM Reasons to Come to this Event We
are selling 150 acres of our nursery and we must liquidate many
trees and plants. Some of of plants are in quantities that would
supply us for many years of sales. But we can't move that number
of trees. Thus they will be either sold at a discount,
destroyed, or given away. I like the last option. Thus if you
bring your pickup to the farm today, Saturday the 28th, we will
give away 1 free Higan Weeping cherry to each email newsletter
subscriber to Highland Hill Farm that picks up the tree by 5PM.
Sorry you must be have be signed up by Jan. 27th, to qualify.
There are no rain checks. These trees are in 24 and 28 inch
baskets and are app. 10-14' tall. We will help load them in your
pickup.
We have a total of 75 trees ready to give away while the supply
lasts. All other trees and plants are 20% off today.
Driving Directions to the Farm Highland Hill Farm 5275 W. Swamp
Rd. Rt. 313 Fountainville, Pennsylvania 18923 myhirst@yahoo.com
http://www.seedlingsrus.com We will have other free tree
offerings each month. So keep in touch.
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Within 15 minutes of this email being sent people started to
arrive to make selections. We would have had no customers on
this day. Yet we sold enough other stock to make this offering
possible. We gave away 52 trees and this was even covered by the
press showing up and giving us exposure in local papers.