Category: Early Days

  What is the best way to protect yourself from the nasty sting of a Solenopsis invicta (fire ant)?  Wear gloves.  Many of us wear gloves when we are gardening.  Of course!  Thorns and slivers and blisters all compel us to wear gloves, especially folks like me with soft office hands.  So, on a typical…

Why did I name my little store Okra Garden Supply?  The Okra flower is the reason.  The Okra plant has so many things that to love, however, it was an easy choice.  Plus it is a short, unique work.  Maybe you found us (me) on the internet?  Maybe that was because so few listings start…

Do you eat?  Then you ought to try and put a seed in the dirt and see what happens.  Good morning.  Gardening is such a wonderful hobby I hope you will consider it.  Does it seem like the only people that garden are those that learned as children or grew up on a farm?  There…

Fire ants are not fish.  They do not like to be submerged in water.  Therefore higher parts of your garden are most at risk for fire ants.  This is often why mounds are observed at the base of trees and sadly, raised beds.  Rainy weather can be tricky for working in the garden.  Often times…

As there are many steps required to establish a secure and functioning website where Okra Garden Supply.com can sell you something securely via credit card, we are selling on Ebay for now.  Although I should be able to get the shopping cart ready to accept payment by check or money order.  Hum.  Well, the Diatomite…

Solenposis invicta is the red imported fire ant.  This ant is a native of South America that arrived in Mobile, Alabama in the early part of the 20th century.  It is a master of utilizing disturbed areas so as the southern portion of the United States was transformed from small rural farms to a more…

Here is the video of Diatomite being applied to the pile documented in yesterday’s post.  The best part of the video is around 27 seconds. Enjoy!… *Imagine a Video Here, Can’t upload because video too large”   Ok, well the next thing will be to figure out how to load the video.  I think that it…

There was a fairly large pile of fire ants at the base of a pine tree in the yard.  This pile could easily be seen and therefore ignored since Fire Ants don’t tend to attack unless a person disrupts them.  However if you have children running around the yard and using the tree as “base” it…

This may be a good sign. Next step, sing it with me: Let it be, Let it be, whisper hope for citrus, let it be. As readers of this blog know, a freeze can be a traumatic event for the southern gardener.  I have four citrus trees.  Two Meyer Lemons we planted when we bought…

We had a freeze here last week, and it was below 32 degrees for a number of hours.  Some things died immediately.   The weak begonia collapsed to the ground.  However, many plants didn’t show their damage right away so the past few days I have been observing leaves turning brown a sad indication.  The…