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Hello Aussies I am also a bee keeper and I have just recently learned that your bee keepers in Au use a product you call Chucks Cloth. It is a different formula in Au that helps to kill the Small Hive Beetles. I read an article that called it Glitz Domestic Wipes. Since our Walmart stores buys most of their stuff from China I think maybe I can get them to carry it here. I was told that if I had a UPC code from a package they would try to find it for me. Can one of you get a code for me? Also what kind of price would I have to pay for one roll plus shipping to the Us? The article did not have any pricing.

any help on the Glitz Domestic Wipes"?

Are these what you are after?

No the Glitz brand Domestic wipes have a specific formula which is different than what we can buy here in the USA.

Did you ever find out what the problem was with the trees Don. I'm curious to hear what was going on.

50 pack $10 from major h/ware store Aus?
Cool sys btw.

Yes that is the right stuff now. If you have some can you get the UPC code off the label for me? It comes in a pack of 10, a roll of 50, and a roll of 100. I think I can get the Walmart store to check their ability to get them for me. They carry lots of stuff from China and that is where Glitz is made. They said they only need a UPC Code so they can try to order some. That would save me paying shipping from Oz. Shipping would cost more than the product I bet. I am wanting to buy the roll of 100. I will share it with my bee keeping club.

I think it was a failure here for several reasons. First I transplanted them at the worst wrong time of year for them and second the water system is not working as expected. I get very little water flow and the ones that seem to be doing the best are the ones that get even less flow. I never did find anything but the tiny spider web on the plants and elsewhere on the place I have mold on my grapevines that maybe some of the same stuff according to the extension service guy. Any way my wife is saying now that I should transplant them again to the dirt before I kill the rest of them. Only 5 left out of 20. I also have been blessed with grasshoppers that like to eat the leaves off plants also.

Not to mention chiggers to annoy you after you've been out walking around in the grass. I used to think graveyard grasshoppers were pretty cool when I was a kid. Bit further south from where you are though, if I remember right.

Someone graciously posted a photo to Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/ritafaeaulbach/5597936650/

I think I got into chiggers yesterday and they are really annoying me today...........
I was out picking up Hickory nuts and Black Walnuts. Looks like we are going to have a crop of them this year. They don't produce every year like you would expect. About every 5 years you get a good crop. Still have a few from the last time they produced. about 5 years ago. We shelled nuts from September till January last time. Hickory has a husk over the shell that comes off easy. Black Walnuts have a husk too but you have to dry them out a while, then run over them with a car a few times then use a grinder with a wire brush to clean off the husk, then use a mechanics vise to crack the shells. Really messy but sure is worth it when you get to eat them.

I don't have any walnuts to husk around here so I've never looked in to this but If you've already got a cement mixer you could get double duty from it using some water and rocks -

http://www.extension.umn.edu/yardandgarden/ygbriefs/h404blkwal.html

http://www.eattheweeds.com/black-walnuts-and-butternut/

just search for cement within the articles (lots of miscellaneous info in these articles which you might not care about)

Cheers

Gidday Don, I'm assuming the UPC code is the barcode.
The numbers under the barcode are; 9 300764 022128
Hope this helps.

Thanks for the barcode. I will see if they can get some for me. Other wise I will be after getting some one to send me some.

The Walnuts are valuable to buy and really taste great so it is a great treat to get some for free on my own place.

We get a heavy crop of walnut every year. I have the girls pick up 15 gal of them from the yard every year and throw them in the fire pit lol. When I'm at the farm hunting the squirrels cut them over your head and they hurt or scare the crap out of you! My favorite tree stand was in a walnut. When I went to sit in it this year I discovered it blew over in the path. I had to cut it up and cut out my stand. Me and walnuts are on bad terms...

Sorry you picked a tree that fell over for your stand.

RairDog, I hope you harvested that Black Walnut log for lumber. That's some expensive wood just to leave it in the woods.