The post for today can be found at http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/6/on-the-ball. Back in 2011, we cooked up our own chile to spray on the roses to discourage porcupine from eating our roses. We have since found an insanely hot chile sauce that we mix up with water and spray on the roses. The chile sauce is so insanely hot that I simply dipped the spoon that we used to measure the chile into a bowl of soup. There was only a slight residue of the chile on the spoon, and it spiced up my soup enough to make me sweat.
Originally posted June 12, 2011: vFrom a chile galaxy loaded with fresh garlic, then strained through a cheesecloth, we created a chile spray to discourage the porcupine from breaking canes, and eating the leaves and buds off the new growth on the rose bushes. We sprayed the mixture on all of our rose bushes thinking it will give them a hot, nasty taste that porcupines won’t like. If it turns out that Corraleño porcupines like spicy roses, then we are in trouble.
The rose floating in the purple cup is Singin’ in the Rain. While cutting the dead canes out of the rose bushes, Laurie got this really nice bloom and floated it in a cup. Puck was out sneakin’ around in a patch of long grass early this morning, when I got this distant shot of him eyeing something. Pink Iceberg is really putting on the blooms now, and I found a lady bug larva working on What a Peach.
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What a lovely Singin’ In The Rain floating in the purple cup!
It really is a nice one, and set off so well in the purple cup.
It’s time for another book or two…you have so many beautiful and fascinating observations…
As always beautiful photograph and how interesting about the chile spray. I would have thought it might damage the roses…but clearly not. I will have to pass this onto my rose grower friends in the UK. Have a wonderful weekend. Janet.
Thanks, Janet!
What an amazing thought that your roses are bothered by porcupines and not just the humble greenfly! Hope the treatment worked!?
Besides thrips and aphids, we don’t really have anything out here that does great damage to the roses except the porcupine that likes to eat the new, tender growth at the end of the canes.
I shall have to try the chilli approach on our greenfly! I love roses and have lots of them – more or less under control , in the garden here 🙂
Wow I had no idea what lady bug larva look like oO
Thanks, Marc! They are interesting.
And we really need your help for our cat poetry section. 😉
HI Marc-André. You can snitch some of the poems I’ve left on Cats at the Bar.
Wow Tim .. Gorgeous images! That chilli sauce sounds interesting. I just harvested my habaneros and the rats had been eating them. Can you believe it!
Some rats like it hot!
Ha ha ha!
BTW Julie, are you habaneros killer hot? I’ve notice habaneros can have quite a range of hotness to them.
You ard absolutely right .. Such varying degrees of heat, catches me out all the time 😀
Singing in the rain is so beautiful! Not so much that larvae
Oh now, Teri! The larvae is quite the looker. Thanks!
I believe I know nothing about this chile sauce. At first, I thought it was coffee, the way it was made some years ago (and tasts really good) lol
Also I had no ideia that’s the look of a ladybug larve… Interesting!
Thanks, Lari!
Why have all these fabulous posts not appeared in my reader?????????
They are old posts before you started following. You know I moved my blog, so all my new photos are on a different platform.
Bold and beautiful shots !
And colorful too .
utham