Gardening, anyone?
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Lori, can I borrow you cutie raccoon? He would probably scare off the beavers.
The additional fencing we put up last night seems to have kept them away. We did not see any tracks in the dew covered grass this morning though, so I don't know if they tried in the middle of the night and gave up or just did not show. Keeping my fingers crossed. I'll take a pic of our temporary fencing and post. It's just stakes a wires and hopefully the HOA won't complain and make us remove them. We've had the front part up for more than a year now but it's less visible.
Scottie
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Sun is out!!!!! So wonderful!!!!!!
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We use the radish tops only and cook like any other greens (collards, etc.).
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Yeah for your sun, MOmmy. :-) We had a half inch of rain last night so I am thrilled I don't have to water.
ScottieMom, OMG on the beavers destroying the roses. I never would have thought they would do something like that. I am visualizing them dragging off the trees and bushes . That might be a little scary running into them as they are going about their business.
Speaking of business, I went out to hoe the weeds in the rest of my garden area last night. I still have 2 bales of straw to scatter. Ewww, on top of one of hem the racoon had decided to do its business. I wonder if it climbed that bale specifically to do that. I got super tired last night and did not finish doing everything. Then this morning I fell asleep while watching the local news before going to work. I guess I overdid things. Luckily DH woke me up. He seemed to insist I was snoring. I do not snore. I make melodious night sounds.
Lori, your visitor might be a part of the family now since he keeps coming back.
Denise, I like that edging and the idea of less trimming, weeding, etc,. I am in the process of cutting off and taking out some old rose bushes which no longer bloom the color they did when I planted them. I have to put the limbs in a trash can and don't want to fill more than one a week with those. I would love to put such a trim around that bed now that I have seen how pretty yours looks.
KB, good luck with the new babies. I swear sometimes I can sit and watch the plants growing. Or maybe that's just my excuse to spend a couple of hours sitting on the garden bench doing nothing. :-P
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The fence seems to have stumped the beavers for now. These were the only critters in the yard today. They have a nest nearby,
Scottie
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Clouded up earlier this afternoon. No rain coming though. Going to be even warmer tomorrow.
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I keep checking for the baby bunnies that I found in my yard last month, but there is no sign of them. Think either a neighbor's cat must have gotten them or they have moved on. I miss Hoppy and Bun-Bun!
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Add my Dh to the list of seasonal tick victims. He asked me to look at his back because it hurt and sure enough he had a nasty swelling around a tick that's probably been there for two days since he was spraying down by our stream. I could not get it off so we had to go to urgent care and he's on ABX. Yuck
Scottie
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Scottie, your welcome to use my raccoons to scare off the beavers anytime! My little box sitter has been back every night and just sits there. I put a few vanilla wafers in the box for him last night. It was so cute watching him climb in there and just sit and stare at the patio doors. Every night I slide open the door enough until he gets nervous and starts to get up then I close the door so he won't leave. I've been able to open the door wider every night before he gets up. I'm still waiting for the mamas to show up with their little ones. I was able to feed a possum a feeble marshmallows by hand last night. I do it all the time with my raccoons but it was a first with a possum. The ricks are horrible here this year. I've been keeping the area around the house well sprayed when I saw one scurry across one of our windows. Praying your hubby heals with no complications. I've pulled 4 of them off me in the past few weeks. They are disgusting little creatures! What are they good for anyway?!
M0mmy, I'm glad the sun has finally shown up at your house. We're still waiting for rain here with none in sight for another week or more.
Heidi, meditation on a garden bench is so refreshing!
We finally got our pool up and running last night. We've had so many problems with pumps this year. The one we had was 14 years old and started to leak when I hooked it up. We got a new one and the leaf basket housing cracked about 2 hours after plugging it in. I hooked up a third one last night and so far this one works 🙏🤞
Gentle healing hugs to everyone 🤗
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Just to funny not to share! Silly old raccoo! Not one of mine lol
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I can hear that little bugger now: "Trash Panda catchin' some rays!"
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Lori, I am amazed that you feed the racoons and possums. I would worry one would nip me. I do love watching them though. One year we had a white skunk for a short while. I was so mesmerized by the coloring that I did get closer than I was comfortable with.
MOmmy, sorry about the rabbits not coming back. Maybe they just ran off to a safer spot.
KB, I like your idea of calling it meditation. It does help destress me on days I don't go dancing, :-)
ScottieMom, the duck family is sooo cute! Sorry to hear about your DH and the tick. We have to be careful here too because of Lyme disease. Also they have already identified West Nile virus this season in the mosquitos. I guess that was the advantage when we were in a drought...no skeeters!
I was saddened to go outside and check the plants Wednesday and found my newest grapevine had turned completely brown and shriveled. I am not sure what happened to it as 2 days before it looked great and I was excited about the grapes I would get. Hubby thinks maybe a mole or vole upended or ate the roots. :-( :-( Too late to plant another this year.
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Lori. . .that trash panda is hilarious. What do you use to spray for ticks? Is there a bug spray that you can wear that deters ticks? Dh and I need to start hiking again and we use bug spray for mosquitos but I don't think it wards off ticks. There is not purpose in life for ticks, fire ants or mosquitos.
Heidi. . .sending some of our rain your way. We've had quite a lot.
Scottie
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I just hope that the bunnies were not killed by a neighbor's cat
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Bunnies can usually hold their own with cats. That kick is mighty.
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Maybe they became Kung Fu bunnies!!!!
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Good Morning All.
Here is a Smilebox of our garden.
http://play.smilebox.com/SpreadMoreHappy/4e4455304...
Coach Vicky
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wow . Coachviki so great thanks for sharing.
Well a few updates from me . My friends the squirrels came back ; ( made a smaller mess 2 plants had soIL disturbance but not a big mess yet I haven't finish my balcony cuz I keep waiting for them to give up before I arrange all the plants. My rose is going several blooms but still no open yet. The first one is now show a bit of red and that is getting me so ancianos lol
My dahlia is growing supper large I may move her to a larger pot I never knew it could be such large plant lol all are doing great so far .I added 2 more cds but I am sad cuz the squirrels went trough the hole by one side so now I know they are aware the cds won't harm them.
Look at the rose showing a little red.
Took a few more out but only cuz I am home and the squirrels usually stay away on the weekend
And took my tomatoes out too
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MIL was trying to grow a tomato in Anchorage, AK. Every morning someone would take it out to sit in the sun and every evening someone would bring it back in because it was too cold at night. I'm not sure she ever got a tomato. I understand, because homegrown and bought are completely different veggies.
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Enerva ... Your plants are beautiful.
Coach Vicky
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Coach Vicky, you have a beautiful garden! I would love to have those pretty raised gardens. Love it.
Enerva, you are doing a lot in your patio gardening. Good job. I had taken my fairy garden outside and it lasted a week before the squirrels or chipmunks dug in it, so I brought them back inside. I can enjoy them in my living room bay window as much as outside. If they dig in the other pots I can just move the dirt back, but of course they didn't bother those!
Scottie I am always so homesick for a blue hydrangea. I have some hydrangeas that do well up north here, but we don't have the acid soil for the blue and all I've ever gotten is a faint wisp of purple even with trying to alter the soil. I think they are one of the most beautiful flowers there are.
My cherry tree is ripening, so I'm looking forward to cherries. I now wish I had a vegetable garden after giving up on it. The only edible things I have this year are the cherries, red leaf lettuce and chives.
I should be shunned from this site. I bought a pretty pre-planted pot of New Guinea impatiens and put it on my front porch and this morning I noticed it is nearly dead! I forgot to water it for probably 3 days. All my other pots are on the deck in the back and I just didn't notice it was dry. I watered it and the back half came back to life but the front is not so I think I'll trim it up and hope it recovers.
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Vicky - love your smilebox, never seen that before. Your raised beds are gorgeous. All I can say is one day I hope to have as many raised beds.
Enerva - I LOVE your pics. I have this desire to want to name each of your plants. I am still just amazed that squirrels can be problem in a high rise. I tried to search out deterrents for you, but seems most are considered only temporary fixes, as squirrels are apparently very determined little boogers.
Wren44 - I just don't blame your MIL. I pretty much has sworn off of tomato's for years. I wouldn't even give them a try if on my salad at a restaurant and would push them aside, more than often the taste was just not there. Hyrdrophonically grown definitely never competed with a soil tomato. But OH how I love my garden tomato's now. I only eat my own tomato's or from friends gardens. No more store bought for me. As most vegetables they are not even grown in the US and so genetically changed to keep color, or not to spoil, or tougher to handle shipping. So I am a heirloom gardener also.
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gardener lol yes me too I already thought about it. So if you like to name my plants send me names lol
Here is what I just finished doing. Remember the white pots I got at ikea ? Well I took my drill and opened draining holes then move one of my plants to it and relocated her to my bedroom window cuz the squirrels seams to like to shew on her and from 3 I now have 2 ; ( So moved now to my bedroom window. The other two beautiful pots I got from the dollar store lol so cheap $3.00 cad I opened holes so I got 4 of those I now have two with draining holes and 2 without. Cuz in case I just want to place a plant temporarily in those. Still not sure which plant will I have in the ones I made holes. But probably my succulents which I have many growing from seeds .
And the CN tower lol from my window
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I just saw something I wanted to share with all of you .
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Enerva - You wouldn't want me to name your plants. In past, I would name plants rather childlike. First letter of the name of the plant, must have a name starting with that letter. Jake the Wandering Jew, Fanny the Fern . . . you get the picture . . . . and its a sad, sad picture. I don't name anymore, I have too many. But I do talk to them and stroke their leaves. My first houseplant did not go by the above naming rule. It was a rubber tree plant that I had for many years. His name was George. I particularly like your wall pots on the patio. I love hanging plants and could imagine some really nice hanging plants in them. I am curious, since I am so not a city dweller. Where do you go to purchase plants? We have the standard box stores, like Lowes and Home Depot but my favorites for houseplants are the privately owned garden centers or the mom and pop that has a greenhouse in their back yard. For veggies I have customers that we generally swap seeds and share what worked or not.
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gardener lol I also do the same I talk to my plants and also like to have my hand on their foliage wile I talk lol ha ha ha sometimes I wonder if the people on the building across ever see me and think I am crazy? Well I ll think of the names I must tell you even though I write down the botanical name for my plants I never seem to be able to say it correctly but I am Spanish and so is most English words lol
My favorite place is sheridan gardens also we have a place called Terra but far from me so I don't go often. We have a street called kinstong road and it full of small flower places which also sell good house plants.
But sheridan is one of my favorites and also some of the far away places up airport Rd north of Toronto.
Yes I plan to find some plants to hang on those walls
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Creative planting using a beer holder turn planter
Red geranium I wintered and that has come back beautifully
Blooming oleander
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Oh wow jazz love them all
I just saw my strawberries plant has it first flower
So happy
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It's been a busy few days here and I've got a lot of ready and eye candy to catch up on. I'll be back in a bit!
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Jazzy. . .I love oleander. We bought a couple of plants years ago at a nursery in Charleston -- where they grow everywhere. They were beautiful that year and did not survive the Georgia winter. One of the things I want to do next year is some large pot containers which I can bring in during the cold months.
Scottie
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