Loved those things, damn site more comfortable than the jean things that replaced em. Even had the old style pea coat before they went to plastic buttons.
I've got a couple places in mind along a couple fence row places.With honeysuckle you want to remember that will spread pretty robustly,at least it did here and this is not an ideal environment
Aphids are pretty easy to control on honeysuckle. You can kill a lot of them with just a forceful spray of water. It knocks them off the plants with their sucker mouth parts still in the plant. If I start growing outside more often, I need to try to get lady bugs set up here. At my old farm, I had quite the beneficial bug population. They would winter over in so many places around the farm, but the attic in the old house was their favorite.
I still have my old pea coat..........Mom used it for about 20yrs.
I've got a couple places in mind along a couple fence row places.
Aphids are pretty easy to control on honeysuckle. You can kill a lot of them with just a forceful spray of water. It knocks them off the plants with their sucker mouth parts still in the plant. If I start growing outside more often, I need to try to get lady bugs set up here. At my old farm, I had quite the beneficial bug population. They would winter over in so many places around the farm, but the attic in the old house was their favorite.
Yeah, I remember all the humming birds. It was the same time frame we had a deer lease in South Texas with an old German lady.......very old German family in that area. She had quite a few feeders around the old farm house. Sure was relaxing to watch the humming birds while Mom and the old lady go and feed the deer that you could see from the front porch.Where i lived in the states, there was a chain link fence that I planted honeysuckle on. It was right next to my canna garden. In the second year, it started flowering. I would sit there and watch the hummingbirds come to the honeysuckle. That was my favorite spot to just sit and be human. Sometimes, the deer and her two fawns would come around when the apricot tree was dropping fruit. It was a special, majical place
My ex got rid of mine behind my back during a move.
