How does one know when is the best time to pick a grapefruit?

Killed sight on seen. Third adult lantern fly I have seen. Earlier in the year saw a bunch of young ones and vacuumed them up. My neighbors have out of control tree of heavens they won’t remove.

wow tasty 🤤🍇

Update: I have had advice on an organic facebook group to use sugar and bicarb in small tray in there. Apparently they eat the sugar mix then die from the bicarb . Giving it a go today. Will update results.
Thanks for those who made suggestions I can’t bury dead things my dogs are gundogs and will dig them up!
Have composted dead things for many years in there it’s just a new problem the cockroach outbreak. We have a drought currently so perhaps they are seeking moisture?
Hi organic friends. I have loads of compost piles and bins but one particular compost turner has a huge cockroach population!(Huge in size and number eeek!)
This is the compost turner I use for gruesome things like dead toads or birds or anything I don’t want my dogs to get their noses into/dig into. I also put in leaves and garden weeds etc. Most of my compost is made in contact with the ground.
Anyway this particular one seems to have become a breeding ground for my biggest phobia (I don’t have any others!) . I don’t use pesticides and I have quite a bit of compost in there I don’t want to wreck in terms of soil.

What can I add or do that is organic and doesn’t wreck the soil/compost.? My chickens do not roam this area due to my dogs being chook chasers and I have seen various sugar/bicarb suggestions but unsure if those things should be getting in my compost at all.
Has anyone tried anything successful. It’s at the heavy stage where I can’t turn it and also if I do several run out which is really not what I want as it’s near my house with just a car port in between.
The only thing worse than these in my compost turner would be these in my house!
They are of the “Oh my god huge” variety! 😂🪳🪳🪳
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Just saying don’t put dead things in there doesn’t really help because I try not to use the council bin for anything that can be composted.
Thanks for any organic suggestions that won’t ruin the compost. (FYI there are worms in there too).

I am currently doing a renovation at a home and I am so curious about this tree. My gut is telling me that it's some sort of hazelnut but there's another tree nearby that is producing flowers that look just like it.

So, after 4 to 5 hours of work, we are done. Six pints of pressure cook Mediterranean Eggplant salsa (we used canned organic diced tomatoes). Seven pints and one quart of refrigerated hot salsa. We still have eggplant leftover. Will be cooking and freezing those tomorrow.

My neighbors have two large hackberry trees just the other side of the fence. The fine hairy roots grow up into my compost pile which I will fix by making a bin with a solid floor.

But I’m wondering what to do about the roots coming up into my raised beds. I worry that any kind of plastic sheeting will prevent adequate drainage. Does anybody here have the same issues, and what do you do to prevent the tre roots?

Thanks in advance.

From left to right. Japanese Eggplant, Black Beauty Eggplant, top middle is Jose Mexico Peppers, Pepperoncini peppers, Sweet Chocolate,
Peppers, tomatoes and a cucumber and Tabasco Peppers.

We are farming australian teak with turmeric in one acre in organic way. Please suggest some organic fertilizer and herbicides which may work with the drip irrigation system.

I have about 500 kg (1,000+ lbs) of an insect-derived organic fertilizer ready to bring to market in a tropical country. It has a fine, sandy texture.

We just received the lab analysis:

- pH: 7.31

- C/N: 15.89

- N: 3.21%

- P₂O₅: 0.27%

- K₂O: 0.21%

- CaO: 0.01%

- MgO: 0.09%

- Boron: 0.37 ppm

- Sulfur: 0.01%

- Copper: 1.71 ppm

- Iron: 28.65 ppm

- Manganese: 18.90 ppm

- Zinc: 16.59 ppm

- Organic carbon: 51.11%

- Ash: 8.00%

- Organic matter: 92.00%

We're trying to figure out how to commercialize it and which crops/applications would make the most sense based on this composition.

Would you market this as a fertilizer, organic nitrogen source, soil amendment, or something else? What crops would you test first in a tropical climate?

If you had 500 kg ready to go to market, where would you start?

I keep hearing that growing beans is supposed to be super easy but I am having very little luck. This has been my third year gardening and I can’t seem to get a good harvest of beans. I have usually only been able to get enough for my husband and I to have them 2-3 times as a side dish with dinner, and I’m talking like one serving each 😢 Green beans are one of my favorite things to cook so I desperately want to grow a bunch!

I’ve tried multiple pole and bush varieties in different places all over my front and back yard. After my first year I thought it was poor soil quality so I’ve tried to work on that and amended a good bit. I think it’s improving because this year my garden was much healthier and I had better luck with many things I struggled with previously (still very much a work in progress though). I also kept thinking maybe I was giving them enough sun in the area I was growing them so then I planted them literally all throughout my back yard beds and in my two front beds as well as some containers just to see if the ones in the sunnier spots did better. They did not.

I know part of my struggle is pests and disease. Ive had some fungal disease issues the last two years and got a terrible spider mite infestation this year but thats not the only problem because unaffected plants still don’t really produce or at least not much. My pole beans tend to do better but not much.

I almost never have luck with bush beans. I’ve had some decently healthy looking bush beans coming up and a few will somehow stay unaffected by the mites and disease but they’ll be weak and tiny and produce like three little two inch beans. It’s so confusing because there will be other things in the beds that will be flourishing and it seems to be all the bush beans no matter how much light they are getting. Also other things I’ve read say beans shouldn’t need to be fertilized very much but I still sometimes do a little bit of something like neptunes harvest when I’m already fertilizing other plants just to try to get them to grow a little more but not every time. The leaves rarely look yellow which I think is usually a nutrient issue, they’re usually pretty green just small and weak.

Also had some germination issues. I’ve tried many different seed companies including baker creek, burpee organic, peaceful valley, thresh seeds, and quite a few more to try to improve things. Doesn’t seem to matter if I soak my seeds ahead of time or not either. I’ve tried many times with both lol

Any advice is greatly appreciated!!!