Our Old Blog, Is still alive. It is popping up in some unexpected places, so it is still being maintained. There is a lot of good information there, both in the text being displayed, and the archives. We are getting to a point where we can feel free to sell advertising spots. This is a new venture for us.
The shortest poem in the English language is about pests. It is called:
Fleas
Adam
Had ‘em.
This is how our new directory is set up. It has links to each of our topics:
Tutorial Directory
Descriptions and links to each page of tutorials ranging from growing sweet potato slips, to trapping gophers.
Descriptions and links to information on preventing pests. Lots of practical prevention tips!
If you follow those links, you will land on a page that lists each article on each topic in that category, along with a description, like this:
Tutorial
Growing sweet potato slips is a mystery to many people, and at one time, seemed to have “well guarded secret” status. Well, take it from an old farm boy, it isn’t all that complicated, and it can be very rewarding, in many ways!
Tutorial
Getting Back To My Roots: Sweet Potatoes
Some of my readers and visitors to my websites started to ask me questions, so I wrote a short tutorial on the subject of growing Sweet Potato Slips, which it turns out, was a bit of a mystery to many home gardeners.
Well, I decided to take the subject a little further, and answer a few more questions.
That will give you a little info about each article, and you can click on the info you want like this:
TEXPEST, Pest Control From Rational Environmental Solutions (903) 216-1408 james@texpest.com
Growing sweet potato slips is a mystery to many people, and at one time, seemed to have “well guarded secret” status. Well, take it from an old farm boy, it isn’t all that complicated, and it can be very rewarding, in many ways!
A. A growing area. You will need a raised bed 4 to 6 feet wide, and a length that you will determine by the number of plants you want to produce. A bushel will need about 10 or 12 square feet of bed space. An acre of sweet potatoes can yield up to 300 bushels if properly fertilized and irrigated, which will probably be a little more than a home gardener will want to produce. It usually takes 5 or 6 bushels to produce slips for an acre of potatoes, so you will want to scale it down according to your needs…
Try it out, just go to:
We have made a few changes to our directory pages. Pest Prevention Directory Pest Control Directory Lawn Directory Aquatics Directory Tree Care Directory Garden Care Directory
These have been modified to make navigation easier. Tell us what you think!
We have made some directory changes, Pest Prevention Directory Pest Control Directory Lawn Directory Aquatics Directory Tree Care Directory Garden Care Directory
These have been split up or otherwise re worked to make navigation easier. Take a look and tell us what you think!
We have a new page available on the website, that will be of some help to those of you who are wondering how many bugs to expect for dinner! It is a simple little tutorial on determining the numbers of pests, many of which are the larval stage of June beetles and other bugs, that are in your lawn, and whether something needs to be done about them before they reach adulthood. It is:
Early Pest Detection: How to Do a Soap Test
It is explained in a simple way, and you can do it with things you already have at home.
Welcome To The Rational Environmental Solutions onsite Blog! We are glad you could join us! Some of the topics we will cover are:
Do it yourself pest prevention.
Do it yourself pest control.
Indoor pest prevention.
Out door pest prevention.
Indoor and out door pest prevention and pest control.
We offer tips and tricks, and helpful hints for the homeowner, home buyer, home gardener, home landscaper, and all DIYS (do it yourself) folks.
On the website, we have a section on pest prevention, and pest control (a lot of free information there), a section on lawns gardens and landscapes, with a lot of practical advice, sections on environmental concerns from a rational perspective, sections dealing with non native invasive plants, information about pond and lake care, a real estate solutions section for those involved in selling real estate, care for real estate, and particularly those who might be in the process of buying real estate. It includes guides on how to look for a home that won’t drive you buggy with bugs and weeds. Check the site out and see if there is something there that might help you! We even have a Tutorial Page section with stuff like Sweet Potato Slips and
Getting Back To My Roots: Sweet Potatoes
and a lot of things like how to do a soap test for early insect detection, and even how to grow a giant pickle in a small neck bottle. If you are a home gardener or landscaper, or love mowing and caring for your own lawn, this is the place for you!
I wanted to tell you about this, most of you already know, but this is a really great free software pack. It includes Firefox if you want it, and Sun Microsystems Star 8, a system comparable to Microsoft, I love the writer feature, it will make PDF’s of your documents with no charge! It is called the Google Pack. Check it out at www.texpest.com
OK, this seems much better.
What I want to talk about here, is pest prevention. My work, is primarily what we call pest control, or pest management, but over the past few years, it has be come very clear to me that we are missing the key element. If we are busy managing and controlling and exterminating and eliminating, that means that we already have them where we don’t want them!
There is no way to completely do away with pests, and if we could, it would probably destroy our entire ecosystem. Some of the pests that bug us are beneficial at times when they are not busy fling into our faces and up our nostrils, or crawling across our kitchen floor. That is a big part of the point. They are only considered pest when they make contact with human beings, our work, or produce.
Almost all of this is secondary to the fact that when we are trying to control or manage, we have obviously started too late in the game. Even the definitions of IPM start at the wrong place. They start with Integrated Pest MANAGEMENT. I think pest prevention should be the first step in any solution. Take a look at some of these ideas if you like, and feel free to comment.
Lawn, Garden And Landscape Care As Pest Prevention
That should get us started, let me know your thoughts.
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