Babysat five grandkids today ages 12, 7, 3, 3, 2. I feel like I've been rode hard and put up wet😴

@Kathleen

I think so. But I'm thinking about going out and spraying my roses.

@Kathleen

Well there's everything under the sun out here and I just protect my Roses by spraying neem oil on them. It seems to work the best of anything for me. It's not horribly expensive either. The worst damage done to my plants this year has been a little too much water. So I guess the neem oil is working. Japanese beetles got in my backyard but never got on my roses which is something of a miracle. Could it be the neem oil?

@prchrskd

I'll have to give that a try. The Japanese beetles are decimating my raspberry bushes. Grrrrrrr.

@Kathleen
Well before the only best way I knew to get rid of them was to pick them off by hand and throw them into soapy water.

@prchrskd

That is exactly what I've been doing. Have a 5 gal.bucket under the rasp bushes.

@KenLarkin @Kathleen @prchrskd

Don't get any on you unless you're interested in finding out about the amorous nature of beetles.

@capnjoe

they are always doubled or sometimes tripled up on each other on my berry leaves. Kinky little devils.

@KenLarkin @prchrskd

@Kathleen @KenLarkin @prchrskd

My hero Rufus Hussey, The Bean Shooter Man, used to shoot them with a rock from a dogwood slingshot.
3:20 in.

youtube.com/watch?v=9ieWrWLjii

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