- Location
- Kent, England
- Hardiness zone
- 9a
Tetters found this in a tree 
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Slightly Kruppled
- Thread starter Zigs
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Meadowlark
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- Hardiness zone
- 9a
When you live in Hurricane country, tree "art" is at risk:
Meadowlark
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- Hardiness zone
- 9a
The wasps have made a very nice (for them) home because the wasp sprayer...
lost its functionality in Hurricane IKE:
lost its functionality in Hurricane IKE:
Meadowlark
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- Hardiness zone
- 9a
Squirrels, it seems, even in art form are immune to the ravages of Hurricanes:
Meadowlark
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- 9a
Crikey, that's a bit more krupple than my old watering can. I've never heard of that kind of wasp sprayer before? Why was it necessary to have it, and how should it work? I thought wasps were garden helpers (apart from the fact that they can sting)
Meadowlark
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That is the old tech sprayer ( probably 75 years old or more) that was commonly used to spray wasps, flys, ticks chiggers, roaches, etc. before the new pump- up sprayers came along. Very necessary and widely used. Set the nozzel right and you could throw out a spray 15-20 feet easily to get wasps nests around the house...also could throw a fine mist.
The plunger handle was on the right and the bulb with spray stuff on the left. I used that many years to spray dairy cows for flies when milking. We also used it to spray to prevent ticks and chiggers getting on our clothes. Very common article around the old homestead in USA.
They still make/sell them here but now priced over $20...cost about $1 back in the day. The "Hudson" was the most popular brand as I recall...and as a matter of fact I think I will order one. Unlike the poor quality sprayers of today, those would last literrally generations...or until facing a hurricane.
Anniekay
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- Location
- Quitman, Ga.
- Hardiness zone
- 9a
Sadly, real squirrels are not. Baby got blown out of my tree and I couldn't catch it to save it. The next morning...yep, laying dead at the stump of the ravaged tree it might have fallen from.
I suppose you'd have to be very careful with that then, as your veggie growing is all about using poison free methods.
Now you have shown a picture of the sprayer, I can remember a similar one my granddad used to have. I think it had DDT in it.
I used to chat to a friend up on the downs here whilst out walking when I had the dogs. He kept a dairy herd, and it was magic watching them. The cows would walk across to the sheds from their field when they wanted to be milked, and then take themselves back when they had finished. It was as if old Nigel and his ''girls'' used the same language.
- Location
- Kent, England
- Hardiness zone
- 9a
I like trees and things in them Mr Lark so you carry on 
Meadowlark
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- Hardiness zone
- 9a
All depends on what is put in the container, @Tetters . For example, it would be Highly effective in application of Epsom salts to my tomato plants, or fish emulsion sprayed on growing onions, or spinosad on leaves of potato plants for Colorado potato beetle, or compost tea sprayed on plants etc. etc.
Lots of applications. I'm definitely ordering one.
I find the definitions of poisons and 'organic' very difficult to understand. Zigs has just been telling me that, as far as he knows, there are bodies of people who tend to know all, say that slug pellets used here to kill slugs on the crops are safe to use on ''organic'' fields.
Having seen with my own eyes dozens of dead birds laying around after these have been sprayed over the fields near us, I have to disagree.
In some cases it may be a case of dosage - for example, Epsom salts in small doses are beneficial to crops, but if you were to dose a tree stump up with an excess of the same salts, it would kill off the roots and the stump eventually would rot.
As I said, I find the whole subject a bit confusing.
Having seen with my own eyes dozens of dead birds laying around after these have been sprayed over the fields near us, I have to disagree.
In some cases it may be a case of dosage - for example, Epsom salts in small doses are beneficial to crops, but if you were to dose a tree stump up with an excess of the same salts, it would kill off the roots and the stump eventually would rot.
As I said, I find the whole subject a bit confusing.
