Oh, okay--I was thinking a favor as in, "I know you're looking for these birds, and I've got plenty--come and get 'em!" but I see now it's actually more of a wild goose chase for them--literally. Perpetually. Lol.
I read about the four-o'clocks thing and noticed some differences in opinion on its effectiveness, but that's the same for everything--I'm willing to try it, I guess. I never kept four-o'clocks because I wasn't moved by the prospects of flowers that are closed most of the day no matter how pretty, but I'm willing to try.
I plan to keep a more regular schedule of spraying Deer Stopper around my flowers and get my homemade blackspot-blaster recipe back online (both worked well).
I also plan to plant only C. moschata squashes and watermelon this year and no cucumbers or muskmelons, to decrease the chances bacterial wilt will get the plants, since I simply can't keep all the cucumber beetles away, and all my moschata squashes survived each year I planted them while the rest died off.
I don't like using chemicals, but beyond all the greater-good rhetoric, the little ones love to pick eat the tasty fruit, herbs and flowers while standing in the yard, and I don't want to worry about what they're eating just this once--when it came out of my own garden!
