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Cake day: June 3rd, 2023

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  • Didn’t try, but could work

    I had some very good experience with lady bugs against aphids. So I was looking for something like that and found a “caterpillar fly” (direct translation, not sure if this is correct. Scientific name: Trichopoda pictipennis)

    Maybe I could set them out in my balcony garden. But as it’s not a real garden, but only a few larger flower boxes, I’m afraid they won’t make it long with an active infestation.

    But I also haven’t found a shop for them yet and don’t know, if they can be applied like lady bugs.
    Can’t stress enough how well that worked against aphids - and I really like them :⁠-⁠)
    With a little “bug hotel” they also came back and tried to settle. But sadly our apartment block had the balconies renovated and I needed to move the hotel and now need to start fresh…


  • Thanks!
    Checked them already after skull givers answer, but haven’t found anything - maybe they already all hatched now…

    This season is already fucked and gone. So I’m currently looking into ways to prevent this next year.

    I’ve read that spraying peppermint helps to keep them away. But we got a bit really wanted mint plant this year, which sits just 25-50cm away from the tomatoes.
    Either it’s a different mint and only peppermint works, or the plant alone just isn’t enough…


  • Ah, I think you’re right!
    We are having an infestation this year of those fuckers, but I’ve only seen the adult ones until now.

    Thank you very much!
    Those have become a pest here.

    If someone knows how to keep them away, it would be very much appreciated.

    Edit: the only thing I’ve found was manual removing them or spraying them with vinegar and soap water. I’ve now freed my 3 poor plants of them manually (into a bag with vinegar, soap and hot water)
    At least now I know, why all our tomatoes this year started to rot with some mold infection






  • Not OP, but can only speak from my experience: Installing a second WM/DE usually messes up my install, as quite some stuff is just from one GUI framework, so I don’t have to have to much stuff installed.
    Also getting rid of it afterwards always wasn’t as easily possible.

    I completely get trying out a WM y firing up a VM. You could even just boot the live USB stick to check it out.
    But changing my working install just to try something (and then have to clean it up again) wasn’t working out for me in the past


  • Ok, I’ll go search for your other comment

    Edit: I’m still not sure how the US supporting Israel is making Russia attack Ukraine or how that should be connected - obviously, geopolitical everything is somehow connected, but not causal

    Edit 2: I’m absolutely not in favour of US backing Israel (or their fucking imperial capitalism), but do you want to say, that Russia had no other choice or…?
    I do know this sounds foolish, but I’m currently really struggling to make sense of what you want to say