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Wombat wrote:In either case the remedy is fire, and lots of it!

We plan on gutting it, cutting an ugly face in it, roasting its seeds (so it can't have demon spawn, of course), and putting a burning candle in it for a few days. I hope the candle does the trick. It's only a little evil pumpkin.

You may be right. The drops have cleared up and the pumpkin is still firm. Thanks.

What is a march fly, anyway? Sorry I forgot to answer this before. Wee harmless fliers about the size and build of a mosquito, with hinged legs hanging down twice the length of their bodies. On a warm afternoon, they would fly in a small cloud hanging in one place under a tree. Mating, I suppose. T...

It can't be slugs trails. This stuff is like clear drops oozing from (not being deposited on) the pumpkin.

We planted pumpkins too late, have just one little pumpkin coming along (about the size of a tea pot), and now beads of clear, cold, wet slime are forming on it. What is it? Is the pumpkin haunted?

One of our cats likes veggies: tomatoes, cucumbers, kohlrabi, mushrooms, and pickled olives are his favorites. The other cat, on the same standard cat food diet (canned and crunchy), won't look at greens except for grass, which she likes to nibble.

I sent the picture to the biggest butterfly expert at Copernicus University and he very kindly had a look. It turns out they aren't little caterpillars, as I had daftly presumed, but the spiny little larvae of March flies (Bibionidae family). Or they were the larvae of March flies. They vanished whi...

I'm wondering now if they fell out of the large tree that is just over the fence, maybe because some hungry bird opened up a cocoon. I just don't want to squash them indiscriminately. For example, we get lovely peacock butterflies in the garden that I wouldn't want to wipe out. I don't think these b...

I always think catfoods should be more, authentic- I mean the chances of my mog bringing down a tuna is somewhat small. Maybe you should think on the lines of squirrel, rat and blackbird flavours-you could corner the market and rid some vermin (esp rats) at the same time... Kind thoughts Deb That's...

Does this link work? Someone took a picture for me.

I wish I had a camera, but I'll just have to describe them. This morning on the ground (bare dirt, not on a plant, but under a tree) in the garden, I found what must be a few hundred small, dark caterpillars wiggling together. Not quite black, maybe a very dark, dull brown with a relatively reddish ...

We've just planted our first ever tomatoes two weeks or so ago. (Next year, we'll start on time.) They have sprouted and are maybe an inch tall now. Most of them are in boxes that we'll grow outdoors as long as we dare, then take inside to put on the window ledge. We also put some directly in the gr...

My whole garden's gone to pot.

Millymollymandy wrote:It's just the general term for the cabbage family, of which radish is a part of!

Ah. Two kinds of radishes just went in a couple of days ago. Thanks.

I'd plant beet root, and brassicas, salad greens and herbs. We've just done that, minus the brassicas, because I don't even know what the hell a brassica is. *google google* "Brassica - Cold hardy plants such as broccoli, kale, cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts" Right, they're next, ...