Richard, I'm glad you found this thread however late, because I might not have found it at all had you not posted.
I have been wondering if anyone here has been able to communicate with the pests/weeds that we don't want to grow in our gardens and yards. I spent so much time pulling a particular weed that I honestly felt it was communicating with me - laughing at me for trying to get rid of it. Even though I told it all the while that I would carry the whole lot of them in my loader bucket out to the ditch bank and dump there where they cuold happily have an entire weed colony.
I even promised to continue to feed them, just as I did my garden. I don't know the proper name for them, but when you find the center and look down, it looks like a star as it spreads it's little arms out to spread through your garden/yard. I must confess that they have significantly slowed down in the garden, but the yard is full of them. And yes, I have kept my promise to feed them with compost tea out on the ditch bank.
Have tried the same technique with some of the pests - telling them to go elsewhere or I'd be forced to add things to the garden to either kill them (all organic, of course) or force them to move on.
I have been wondering if anyone here has been able to communicate with the pests/weeds that we don't want to grow in our gardens and yards. I spent so much time pulling a particular weed that I honestly felt it was communicating with me - laughing at me for trying to get rid of it. Even though I told it all the while that I would carry the whole lot of them in my loader bucket out to the ditch bank and dump there where they cuold happily have an entire weed colony.
I even promised to continue to feed them, just as I did my garden. I don't know the proper name for them, but when you find the center and look down, it looks like a star as it spreads it's little arms out to spread through your garden/yard. I must confess that they have significantly slowed down in the garden, but the yard is full of them. And yes, I have kept my promise to feed them with compost tea out on the ditch bank.
Have tried the same technique with some of the pests - telling them to go elsewhere or I'd be forced to add things to the garden to either kill them (all organic, of course) or force them to move on.