Gardening, anyone?
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Welcome Coach Vicki!
The snakes around here are rattlers and awake from hibernation, but none here in the hood. They are across the street in the national monument though. Last summer, a friend and her daughter were visiting and wanted to go up there and warned them about snakes. "Be sure to wear closed toed shoes (vs. sport sandals)", I told them. Sure enough, they ran in to one on their hike and couldn't believe it. Seriously people, I am not kidding about their being snakes up there!
I don't have a problem with snakes, an important part of the ecosystem. Like to see them before they see me though?
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Wow. . .I've been busy for a few days and this board has just blown up with great posts. Lori those buckets look great. Heidi I hate snakes and would have screamed so loud they could have heard me in the next state.
Frogs on the other hand are fascinating. This one has taken up squatters rights in my front fountain. The neighbors must have though I was crazy crouching in my front garden with my big camera and flash.
Scottie
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Welcome Coach Vickie!
Gardennerd, water snakes have a tendency to be more aggressive than other snakes. I hate water moccasins! They are beyond aggressive! I've been chased by a few and I'm so glad none of them caught me! The Emory Rat Snake is very aggressive along with coachwhips aka chicken snakes. King snakes will eat rattlers as they are immune to their venom.
Scottie, I love frogs too! We have huge bull frogs in our pond that sing all night long. I'd love to catch a few and have some fresh fried frog legs just 2 or 3 of these guys will fill us both up.
Jazzy, me too! While everyone is running away from them I'm running to them, unless of course I can tell from a distance if it's poisonous!
I had a Desert King Snake named Sammy. He's in my freezer waiting to be stuffed. I cried like a baby when he died. He was a record length and I refused to turn him in for the herpatological record books. I had him for 18 years and I got him as an adult. I found him in the road with a broken jaw so I took him to our reptile vet Dr True and he told me he'd never survive due to his kind of injury. I tube fed Sammy for 6 weeks after his jaw was reset. I used to take Sammy with me to see Dr True once a year just to say nanananana!!
I got my muck buckets planted and my lilies are already growing. One has grown about 5" in just a few short days!
These lilies were all the same size when I planted them. The one on the left is a show off!!
The purple planters have my cockscombs in them. I'm waiting for my DH to put the side walk in for our walk out patio from the basement. I won't plant them in the ground until the side walk is finished.
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WenchLori, What a wonderful story about Sammy.
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Hoping to get out today and at least get the flowers for my flower bed and window boxes. Might even get some of the veggie plants today too
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Scottie I like frogs too. When my middle grandchild was at the house one day I found a little one and held it out for him. He seemed shocked I was holding the frog and was leery at first about touching it himself.
Lori, it seems you like frogs for a different reason. LOL Your buckets ended up great! Liked the story about your snake, but I think I will always be afraid of them.
MOmmy, I don't have my seeds in the ground yet either. Maybe this will be the weekend for us!
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Well I got my veggie plants and some flowers. Might get more flowers if what I got today wasn't enough to go around all the boxes and flower bed
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M0mmy, I hope you'll be able to get and plant this weekend. I have to get my Peoney planted and my motel mushroom patch taken care of this weekend.
Ananda, Sammy's favorite place to be was thru the belt loops on my geans. I went to get groceries once and I forgot I had him. I overheard someone say "What an interesting belt" Ooops!!! I took Sammy out and put him in his travel pillowcase to wait for me.
Heidi, just bullfrogs get eaten. lol All the other frogs just get hugs and pictures taken of them. Like this guy! No it's not that hot out, I haven't adjusted the temperature guage yet.
I've been watching the nest that's over our front door. At first I thought it was a mama House Wren but it's a mama Eastern Phobie. The first one I've seen here and she's decided to have her babies over my front door. I can't hear any chirping yet.
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Me too.
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Awww, he's a cute froggy.
Thank goodness your temps aren't like that yet. I am afraid ours will be there in a couple of months. UGH
I would have been running through the grocery store knocking down shelves if I had seen Sammy wrapped around your waist.
WTG MOmmy, that was a good start.
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It went from sunny to pouring rain in 5.2 seconds but my straw bale garden is loving it! I can see it growing from my balcony door!
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Teka, I love the cute fat road! It's very handsome/pretty!
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Toad! Toad! Toad! Not ROAD! I hate spellchecker!!
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WenchLori - loving your garden. I am curious as to why the fencing? animals helping themselves? or just a perimeter for yourself?
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All my veggies and flowers planted
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Wow so much going on here. I was way behind. While everyone is getting started on their gardens I have accomplished very little so far. It was warm here last weekend and I dragged my potted tropicals outside and purchased a couple of pre planted planters, but I didnt get anything in the ground. i do have some red leaf lettuce coming up in the pot I used last year so that is a treat.
Today its quite cool and rainy but I had a blast creating fairy gardens. Top one is a beachy scene and the other a woodland mountain type.
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Gardennerd, we live out in the country and we are surrounded by woods. We have a lot of deer that come through our yard and woods and if not for the fence I'd never get to eat anything from the garden. The deer love tomato plants. I put a salt block, a mineral block and a tub of deer corn out for them but they prefer the tomato plants.
M0mmy, yay! You finally got your plants and seeds planted.
KB, what a wonderful idea to plant a rose for your kitty. Please post pictures when they bloom.
TwoHobbies, I love your fairy scenes. They are so cute, I may have to make one for my deck.
We had a wonderful day today as we went to a crawfish boil. The crawfish was way to hot and spicy for me so I was very glad they cooked burgers too. They had a massive von fire that took forever to get lit as we got about 4" of rain yesterday and last night.
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Have enough room yet in the garden for more veggies. Hubby wants to add more tomato plants.
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Whoowee, look at that bonfire. LOVE IT!
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Those plants are looking great Lori.
MOmmy, yes,if there is room, fill that space. Does hubby help put in the garden? I get so tired hoeing the weeds but I hate weeds. Plan to plant my seeds as soon as I get off the computer.
KB what a nice idea as a memorial
Twohobbies, great fairy scenes. Makes me smile. :-)
~Heidi
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We put in more tomatoes this morning only to find we still had enough space to put something else in. Went to Home Depot to get a new garden hose and spray nozzle, so while we there we looked to see if they had some yellow neck squash and some zucchini. They had none that looked good or were decently priced, so we are going to try a local hardware store that also sells veggie and flower plants at a much cheaper price
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Pretty flowering cactus, Jazzy. I have been thinking about moving mine outdoors abd wonder if it might flower then.
Cucumbers and red lettuce are coming up from seed that I didnt plant this year. I was so excited I might end up planting some veggies this year. Mommyof2 I took a trip to my ace hardware store where it is also cheaper. I got some geraniuns, ageratums, and alyssum to plant. Might go back for peppers and zucchini.
Still only 60s today but I got things planted in the front. The rest are going to the back yard and containers.
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Two hobbies- I have a couple indoor ones I have moved outside but no luck with blooming. My outdoor ones go gangbusters though? There is actually something you can buy that is helps cacti flower, look for it in the plant food section? By Shultz I believe.....
Here is a bird of paradise shrub flower (different than the bird of paradise plants many know of in the more tropical areas). These do well in the desert and my neighbor has one and this flower was creeping over my wall and caught the morning sun so I snapped a photo of it
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Jazzygirl - beautiful bird of paradise shrub flower. Never seen this, but we are in a different climate . . . don't expect it would like humid and hot.
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Well I have been there - in the garden, actually off the deck using my walker. Finally! Shortness of breath from chemo drugs aside. I did it. Planted the beans (Landreth, Carlina, red swan) white French scallops, zucchini, many lettuce boxes, kale, chard, a French red onion, beets. The tomatoes are limited to Juane Flame, Juliet,Jeramiah Johnson, black cherry, yellow sun cherry, red grape. Last year I planted 12 types of tomatoes. Controlling my self and these were great. Also mini peppers, red Belgian peppers and chocolate and yellow peppers. Red and broadleaf basil. And done. Plus comos tall ones and zinnias in each tub. I have 2 dozen food grade drums cut in half for the planters. And deck planters and some garden holes actually in the ground. But this year only 4 tomatoes will go in the ground. Have to keep it simple and manageable.
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My garden beds are raised. We put lattice around them this year to keep our 3 dogs out of the garden. The dogs are somewhat perplexed that they can't get to the beds! Sarah, the Basset Hound, figured out last year how to eat my tomatoes and now she just stares at the garden as if "What happened?"
Coach Vicky
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Hubby had been meaning to trim back my lilac bush for the last few weeks, but he hadn't found the time until this last weekend. Had I known we were going to get some rain overnight, I wouldn't have watered my garden.
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Jazzy, I'v never seen such a plant. It's gorgeous. I love flowering catci. Isn't it strange how something so mean looking with all those thorns can produce such beauty.
MOmmy and Bluebird, congrats on getting the gardens in. I put in some seeds for melons, watermelon, cukes, spaghetti squash ad zuchinni. Not too may as I will be the one tending the gardenw ith weeding and watering.
I need DH to get me some straw bales so I can cover the ground and help keep the weeds under better control. However, he is still busy moving the privacy fence back a little so he can get his truck and trailer out of the back yard a little easier. Unfortunately because of that he has not put up my shelves in the shed and has it littered right now with all the tools he is using. I am eager to get my shed into shape but the 90s are going to be here this weekend and that will tire me so quickly. Oh well, one step at a time.
CoachV, shame on you taking her snacks away. LOL
~Heidi
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