Every morning during daylily season, it has been a race to get to the daylilies and get their pollen before the marauding carpenter bees swoop in and steal it. Here is how I finally foiled them.
Name: Marilyn, aka "Poly" South San Francisco Bay Area (Zone 9b) "The mountains are calling..."
We recently had to go on a trip, and I had bags on the pods I knew would ripen while we were gone. When we came back, the pods had opened, and some of them had spilled seeds, but the seeds were safely contained by the bags.
Evaluating an iris seedling, hopefully for rebloom
Name: Alice Flat Rock, NC (Zone 7a) The beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains
Always use caution if you have a curious dog. I was using the bags in the garden and my dog ate one resulting in major surgery and 18 days in the doggy hospital. The drawstring got caught on his pyloric valve and the bag hung there in his intestines eating away at the walls. Our vet told us this was not an uncommon problem,
Minds are like parachutes; they work better when they are open.
Name: Alice Flat Rock, NC (Zone 7a) The beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains
I was thinking of Toby and Bo and all our other fur buddies. It took my Boo 8 months to recover from that surgery. Just use extreme caution with those bags if you or your neighbors have nosy dogs.
Minds are like parachutes; they work better when they are open.
Name: Marilyn, aka "Poly" South San Francisco Bay Area (Zone 9b) "The mountains are calling..."
Oh my gosh, I am so sorry to hear about that! Thanks for pointing that out to all of the dog lovers. (My dog, Warp, is only interested in hunting critters...)
Evaluating an iris seedling, hopefully for rebloom
