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How cute! I have a sort of fairy garden started but haven't done much with it in the past year. It has a welcome sign, a little bitty bridge that sort of crosses over an imaginary creek, a little garden shed, a loveseat and two chairs with a tiny little table, and a birdhouse. It needs tiny little people to cross the tiny little bridge to sit on the tiny little chairs and the tiny little loveseat and to putter in the tiny little garden shed..
Today's garden chores include cutting down the spent gladioli, deadheading a bunch of other flowers, and pulling up bachelor buttons that went crazy and grew to 5' tall before falling over. What? Guess I won't be trying to grow those again.
By the time all that's done, it'll be too hot to play in the dirt, dammit.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 5, 2021 9:06:59 GMT -5
How cute! I have a sort of fairy garden started but haven't done much with it in the past year. It has a welcome sign, a little bitty bridge that sort of crosses over an imaginary creek, a little garden shed, a loveseat and two chairs with a tiny little table, and a birdhouse. It needs tiny little people to cross the tiny little bridge to sit on the tiny little chairs and the tiny little loveseat and to putter in the tiny little garden shed.. Today's garden chores include cutting down the spent gladioli, deadheading a bunch of other flowers, and pulling up bachelor buttons that went crazy and grew to 5' tall before falling over. What? Guess I won't be trying to grow those again. By the time all that's done, it'll be too hot to play in the dirt, dammit. Your comments brought me back 65 years or so ago. Teeny-TinyONCE upon a time there was a teeny-tiny woman who lived in a teeny-tiny house in a teeny-tiny village. Now, one day this teeny-tiny woman put on her teeny-tiny bonnet, and went out of her teeny-tiny house to take a teeny-tiny walk. And when this teeny-tiny woman had gone a teeny-tiny way, she came to a teeny-tiny gate; so the teeny-tiny woman opened the teeny-tiny gate, and went into a teeny-tiny churchyard. And when this teeny-tiny woman had got into the teeny-tiny churchyard, she saw a teeny-tiny bone on a teeny-tiny grave, and the teeny-tiny woman said to her teeny-tiny self, 'This teeny-tiny bone will make me some teeny-tiny soup for my teeny-tiny supper.' So the teeny-tiny woman put the teeny-tiny bone into her teeny-tiny pocket, and went home to her teeny-tiny house. Now, when the teeny-tiny woman got home to her teeny-tiny house, she was a teeny-tiny bit tired; so she went up her teeny-tiny stairs to her teeny-tiny bed, and put the teeny-tiny bone into a teeny-tiny cupboard. And when this teeny-tiny woman had been to sleep a teeny-tiny time, she was awakened by a teeny-tiny voice from the teeny-tiny cupboard, which said: 'Give me my bone!' And this teeny-tiny woman was a teeny-tiny frightened, so she hid her teeny-tiny head under the teeny-tiny clothes and went to sleep again. And when she had been to sleep again a teeny-tiny time, the teeny-tiny voice again cried out from the teeny-tiny cupboard a teeny-tiny louder, 'Give me my bone!' This made the teeny-tiny woman a teeny-tiny more frightened, so she hid her teeny-tiny head a teeny-tiny further under the teeny-tiny clothes. And when the teeny-tiny woman had been to sleep again a teeny-tiny time, the teeny-tiny voice from the teeny-tiny cupboard said again a teeny-tiny louder, 'Give me my bone!' And this teeny-tiny woman was a teeny-tiny bit more frightened, but she put her teeny-tiny head out of the teeny tiny clothes, and said in her loudest teeny-tiny voice, 'TAKE IT!' Teeny-Tiny link here: Teeny-Tiny Story
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2021 9:49:11 GMT -5
Tennesseer I love the teeny tiny story I'm done in the garden (which is not teeny tiny!) for today at least. It almost broke my heart to have to cut back the spiderwort plants. Maybe they'll decide to bloom again when the nights get cooler again in September or thereabouts. Mowing the lawn might be on this afternoon's agenda.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 5, 2021 9:52:54 GMT -5
Tennesseer I love the teeny tiny story I'm done in the garden (which is not teeny tiny!) for today at least. It almost broke my heart to have to cut back the spiderwort plants. Maybe they'll decide to bloom again when the nights get cooler again in September or thereabouts. Mowing the lawn might be on this afternoon's agenda. I remember hearing the story when I was a teeny-tiny kid.
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Post by happyhoix on Jul 5, 2021 13:03:18 GMT -5
Snake made another appearance. This is a violation of our pact - he gets to eat all the field mice he can catch (the ones living in the crawl space) but in exchange he has to remain hidden from human eyes at all times. Instead, he boldly crawled into the open doorway of the storage room under the screened porch where we keep the yard equipment. DH said not to worry, it was small and a black snake (non poisonous) then held his hands out about 3 feet wide. Clearly any snake larger than a pencil is a crisis.
I won’t be able to go into the storage area until frost, now.
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Post by stillmovingforward on Jul 5, 2021 14:57:50 GMT -5
Good planning happyhoix! Now your DH has to deal with all the stuff needing in or out of the storage shed
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2021 15:48:34 GMT -5
Snakes don't hibernate, happyhoix. They just sort of snooze through the winter, waking up a bit when there's a warm spell. Mr. Black may decide to take up residence in the storage shed
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 5, 2021 18:05:06 GMT -5
Snake made another appearance. This is a violation of our pact - he gets to eat all the field mice he can catch (the ones living in the crawl space) but in exchange he has to remain hidden from human eyes at all times. Instead, he boldly crawled into the open doorway of the storage room under the screened porch where we keep the yard equipment. DH said not to worry, it was small and a black snake (non poisonous) then held his hands out about 3 feet wide. Clearly any snake larger than a pencil is a crisis. I won’t be able to go into the storage area until frost, now. I would look at that as a plus. You won't have to do any yard work until much cooler weather.
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Snakes don't hibernate, happyhoix. They just sort of snooze through the winter, waking up a bit when there's a warm spell. Mr. Black may decide to take up residence in the storage shed He’s been living in the crawl space under the house for years. That’s where the mice live. The plumber caught sight of him under there. I think in the winter he hangs out there, it’s warmer there, and there are mice. The concrete block foundation of the house separates the crawl space from the storage room but somehow the snake can pass between the two areas because I’ve found two snake skins in the storage area in the past two years. Also found one in the azaleas. I hadn’t seen one in at least a year though and I was hoping he had moved on but maybe not. Or maybe this is a new one. Gives me the willies to think about.
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Post by happyhoix on Jul 5, 2021 18:46:20 GMT -5
Snake made another appearance. This is a violation of our pact - he gets to eat all the field mice he can catch (the ones living in the crawl space) but in exchange he has to remain hidden from human eyes at all times. Instead, he boldly crawled into the open doorway of the storage room under the screened porch where we keep the yard equipment. DH said not to worry, it was small and a black snake (non poisonous) then held his hands out about 3 feet wide. Clearly any snake larger than a pencil is a crisis. I won’t be able to go into the storage area until frost, now. I would look at that as a plus. You won't have to do any yard work until much cooler weather. No such luck, DH volunteered to fetch out whatever I need. We have the perfect marriage. I’m deadly afraid of snakes and he freaks at the sight of mice, or even worse, bats. Although when one of the cats managed to catch a bat and bring it into the house, it was brave DH, bare ass naked, who caught it in a Tupperware container. (He heard me scream when he was taking a shower and didn’t stop to put pants on) (The cats had nearly played it to death so it wasn’t flying around anymore) (No, it didn’t have rabies, DH took it to the health depth to get tested. He and the guy at the health dept both screamed like girls when the bat moved inside the Tupperware container. )
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Jul 5, 2021 18:53:29 GMT -5
Our last house was on a 2 acre mostly wooded lot. Once I found 20 white golf ball sized objects in my big warm compost pile. My wife told me they were snake eggs.
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I would look at that as a plus. You won't have to do any yard work until much cooler weather. No such luck, DH volunteered to fetch out whatever I need. We have the perfect marriage. I’m deadly afraid of snakes and he freaks at the sight of mice, or even worse, bats. Although when one of the cats managed to catch a bat and bring it into the house, it was brave DH, bare ass naked, who caught it in a Tupperware container. (He heard me scream when he was taking a shower and didn’t stop to put pants on) (The cats had nearly played it to death so it wasn’t flying around anymore) (No, it didn’t have rabies, DH took it to the health depth to get tested. He and the guy at the health dept both screamed like girls when the bat moved inside the Tupperware container. ) (I'm typing this in small font size in case my neighbor the rough and tough police officer sees it. This big guy once called me and asked me if I would remove a toad from his backyard. I moved it to his neighbor's yard. He asked me to never tell anyone he's afraid of small animals. . )
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jul 5, 2021 19:52:40 GMT -5
Our last house was on a 2 acre mostly wooded lot. Once I found 20 white golf ball sized objects in my big warm compost pile. My wife told me they were snake eggs.
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Post by Opti on Jul 5, 2021 22:02:44 GMT -5
No such luck, DH volunteered to fetch out whatever I need. We have the perfect marriage. I’m deadly afraid of snakes and he freaks at the sight of mice, or even worse, bats. Although when one of the cats managed to catch a bat and bring it into the house, it was brave DH, bare ass naked, who caught it in a Tupperware container. (He heard me scream when he was taking a shower and didn’t stop to put pants on) (The cats had nearly played it to death so it wasn’t flying around anymore) (No, it didn’t have rabies, DH took it to the health depth to get tested. He and the guy at the health dept both screamed like girls when the bat moved inside the Tupperware container. ) (I'm typing this in small font size in case my neighbor the rough and tough police officer sees it. This big guy once called me and asked me if I would remove a toad from his backyard. I moved it to his neighbor's yard. He asked me to never tell anyone he's afraid of small animals. . )I love toads. They don't bite and at worst they would pee in fright.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 5, 2021 22:06:37 GMT -5
(I'm typing this in small font size in case my neighbor the rough and tough police officer sees it. This big guy once called me and asked me if I would remove a toad from his backyard. I moved it to his neighbor's yard. He asked me to never tell anyone he's afraid of small animals. . ) I love toads. They don't bite and at worst they would pee in fright. The officer is a good guy. He has been involved in shootouts. Even once shot in the leg. But little animals creep him out.
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There are some pretty yellow lilies among the day lilies. I want to move them, but they are still days away from being done blooming so I'm gonna put little tags on them to tell which ones are the yellow ones. They aren't day lilies...the blooms last at least a few days.
The lawn gets mowed today because we may get rain tomorrow afternoon. It can only be mowed in the afternoon because it takes until noonish for it to dry out from the dew. (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution motto on their building says "Covers Dixie Like the Dew".)
Other than that, there's no plan for today.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2021 11:04:18 GMT -5
After his trek to the art supply store for tracing paper, he drew up some designs for our landscaping project. I have to give him an A+++ for incorporating all the practical (existing sprinkler heads and lights, ease of walking and maintenance) with the aesthetic (balancing hardscape and plants, minimizing straight lines, variety of surface textures). He's good! And our landscaper will be thrilled to have a nice project for the slow season this winter.
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I decided to weed near a spot by the house and detected a REALLY bad odor. No, it wasn't the compost pile. (I don't put meats or dairy in there so it has no smell.) I looked around and found that a turtle had somehow ended up head-first in one section of a cinder block and died there. I hate to think what an awful death that must have been but damn, it REEKED. I'm not touching it till it's decayed down to a skeleton.
At the garden club meeting I got some lily bulbs from a woman who was thinning hers out. I asked if this was a good time to plant them and she said yes but I'll have to dig them out and store them before it gets cold if I want them to bloom next year. Not gonna happen. I have tons of bulbs and it would take forever for me to dig them out every fall. If they bloom, they bloom.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2021 20:51:31 GMT -5
Clearly any snake larger than a pencil is a crisis.
happyhoix I agree! If the non venomous ones around here just had enough sense to stay out of sight (outside, of course!) my life would be easier and so would theirs. Mister was going on and on about his parents’ hostas over the weekend, even sending me pictures of them because one is huge and the other is blooming. We have one that was already planted here, but it’s a struggle plant. So when I was out buying plants and pots I wasn’t supposed to be buying today, I bought him a couple of hostas, hoping that might distract him from all the other random stuff I bought, since we have a perfect spot to plant them…. in the currently empty, somewhat shady flowerbed. Didn’t work. I was looking for pots because I have 3 houseplants that need to be repotted. One is a corn plant (or cane? Idk) that is still in its nursery pot, inside a bigger pot (that doesn’t have a drainage hole) and I’ve had that poor baby for at least 7 years. Don’t judge me. The other is a mother-in-law tongue (that turned out to really be 4) that have been in the same pot for at least 7 years too, and had gotten so big and tall that it was looking crazy. The other is a philodendron (or maybe a pothos, idk the difference). It’s in a pot I loved, but gave to my cousin when she came over my house one day right after I bought it and asked if she could have it. I said sure, you can have it, thinking I’d just go buy another one, but the store I bought it from didn’t have anymore and I couldn’t find one like it anywhere online. I was really upset I’d given it away. About 3 years ago, she gave me the pot back, and had put a philodendron/pothos in it for me. Our Grandmother use to grow them. But the pot doesn’t have a drainage hole, which I knew was bad, so I finally got around to trying to give the plant a better home. So I went shopping with those plants in mind and got distracted and bought random shit. Like a lemon tree that I know damn well will not survive winter here outside. I tried to convince Mister it was a hosta that couldn’t go in the ground. That didn’t work either. Anyway, when I finally got back home, I only got as far as dealing with the mother-in-law tongues. I bought 2 tall planters I thought would look nice in the entryway with those plants (which was NOT my original plan, I was supposed to get ONE new pot for that plant), and getting them into their new pots was all I did because my back started hurting and I was hot and sweaty. I’m not even going to tell y’all what else I bought. For someone that kills more plants than I keep alive, I seem to have some sort of problem as far as buying plants and pots. And don’t tell Mister, but I have some more stuff still in the trunk of my car.
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I'm gonna tell on you, @pinkcshmere, unless you get the rest of that stuff out of your trunk before the heat kills it all!
It's a shame that some of the plants you buy end up being sacrificed, but it's the way you learn what not to do. Yanno, while you're at the garden center you can Google the plants that look like you want them to see whether you have a spot for them and if caring for them will be a problem.
As for the lemon tree, keep it in the house! Plant it in a big pot and park it in a spot that gets a lot of light and at least four hours of sun every day. It will want to be misted often. You should probably also set it in a tray of pebbles covered with water. They want a lot of humidity. Or you can grow it on your deck and move it indoors when the weather gets cooler (and before the first frost!).
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I need to move the flowers that have survived to the bakers rack on the patio and probably move that. They are finally coming next week to replace the deck so I want them out of harm's way. The existing deck is getting tore off this weekend.
I thought everything I bought last year was annuals but I guess not. One of them is even growing sideways because the stupid pot cracked last year.
I haven't done anything hardly this year because DH wanted the deck done before I planted anything. The contract was signed in March and they literally just finally scheduled us yesterday when DH was calling to fire them.
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I'm gonna tell on you, @pinkcshmere, unless you get the rest of that stuff out of your trunk before the heat kills it all! It's a shame that some of the plants you buy end up being sacrificed, but it's the way you learn what not to do. Yanno, while you're at the garden center you can Google the plants that look like you want them to see whether you have a spot for them and if caring for them will be a problem. As for the lemon tree, keep it in the house! Plant it in a big pot and park it in a spot that gets a lot of light and at least four hours of sun every day. It will want to be misted often. You should probably also set it in a tray of pebbles covered with water. They want a lot of humidity. Or you can grow it on your deck and move it indoors when the weather gets cooler (and before the first frost!). LOL! It’s not plants still in my car, it’s pots. The lemon tree is the only unfamiliar plant I bought.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2021 7:38:25 GMT -5
That's a relief, @pinkcshmere. I hope one of those pots is big enough for the lemon tree so you won't go back to the garden center and buy a whole bunch more plants
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I'm gonna tell on you, @pinkcshmere , unless you get the rest of that stuff out of your trunk before the heat kills it all! I know Pink replied and she didn't actually leave plants in her trunk but this reminded me- when DS and DDIL were married I did the flowers. That involved purchasing mass quantities of flowers down here in KC and transporting them up to Des Moines the day before the wedding. The florist cautioned me not to leave them in the trunk at the hotel! No way- we dragged them all into the hotel room for the night. I was NOT going to show up with wilted bouquets for the woman who would control access to my future grandchildren!
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Post by wvugurl26 on Jul 7, 2021 13:42:47 GMT -5
So a Google search shows the flowers that came back are calibrachoa. Google says they are perennial in zones 9-11. North Carolina State University says they can survive winter up through zone 7.
They also claim they are difficult to get through winter and require special prep. I did nothing to them.
On the old 1990 zone map, I'm 7a. On the 2012 version, I'm 6b. Last winter was pretty mild though. I guess the university is correct about their survival as perennial.
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That's a relief, @pinkcshmere . I hope one of those pots is big enough for the lemon tree so you won't go back to the garden center and buy a whole bunch more plants The lemon tree is rather small right now. I thought I was supposed to put it in a slightly larger pot and repot it into a larger one as it grows, that putting a small plant in a huge pot is a bad idea. Am I misunderstanding? I mean, I have small pots, small-medium pots, medium pots, medium-large pots, large pots, and very large pots, so I’m sure I have something suitable. The reason I bought the pots that are living in my trunk is, last summer, I bought a pot for something or another (that I killed) and it has “feet” on it, so I don’t have to worry about putting something underneath it so it’s not sitting directly on the deck. I wanted more like that, but they were sold out. Yesterday, I finally saw them again, and in a larger size, so I bought some more. I prefer that style for the plants on the deck, so as things grow and need to be repotted (or die), I’d like to move stuff to that style, as much as possible. So my pot buying binge yesterday wasn’t quite as random and crazy as it sounded. I didn’t feel like explaining all that to Mister since he’ll just see more pots and think I’m going to have him out here for days helping me stick plants in them. So I left them in the car to deal with later.
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That's a relief, @pinkcshmere . I hope one of those pots is big enough for the lemon tree so you won't go back to the garden center and buy a whole bunch more plants The lemon tree is rather small right now. I thought I was supposed to put it in a slightly larger pot and repot it into a larger one as it grows, that putting a small plant in a huge pot is a bad idea. Am I misunderstanding? No, you're right. Put the lemon tree in a pot that's bigger than the one it's in and repot it as it grows. A little plant in a too-big pot will grow lots of roots but it'll take a long time for it to grow up and out. This is something I've been trying to convince DD of for years, but it falls on deaf ears so I guess I just figured that everybody thinks that way... If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say if it's in a 10" pot right now, repot it in a 14" pot. You can sort of tell by looking what next step up should be each time it looks like it's outgrowing the pot it's in.
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Third time is the charm for sure because the latest sprinkler company showed up EARLY today and was great. They ran all the zones, identified the problems, had the parts on the truck to fix the problems TODAY, and even gave us tips on maximizing the effectiveness of the water which I really appreciated as we are going to have water rate increases for the next 5 years. And all of this was for less $$ than the last company quoted. This company also handles drainage issues and landscape lighting too. And the lead technician also gave me a copy of our local gardening guru's latest book.
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No such luck, DH volunteered to fetch out whatever I need. We have the perfect marriage. I’m deadly afraid of snakes and he freaks at the sight of mice, or even worse, bats. Although when one of the cats managed to catch a bat and bring it into the house, it was brave DH, bare ass naked, who caught it in a Tupperware container. (He heard me scream when he was taking a shower and didn’t stop to put pants on) (The cats had nearly played it to death so it wasn’t flying around anymore) (No, it didn’t have rabies, DH took it to the health depth to get tested. He and the guy at the health dept both screamed like girls when the bat moved inside the Tupperware container. ) (I'm typing this in small font size in case my neighbor the rough and tough police officer sees it. This big guy once called me and asked me if I would remove a toad from his backyard. I moved it to his neighbor's yard. He asked me to never tell anyone he's afraid of small animals. . )I was once driving back to work and a box turtle was in the middle of the road. It was a residential area, so I hopped out and picked it up, then jumped back in the car and put it on the stick shift mounting. It had sucked up into the shell so no fear it would walk anywhere. We were driving back to work through a farm/wooded area with a nice pond area, I was going to drop him off there. You would have thought I dragged a thrashing giant anaconda into the car, based on the panic attack my office mate had. The turtle had to ride in the truck. It was a gentle box turtle, not a crazy ass snapping turtle. Oh well.
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Post by azucena on Jul 8, 2021 7:58:58 GMT -5
Third time is the charm for sure because the latest sprinkler company showed up EARLY today and was great. They ran all the zones, identified the problems, had the parts on the truck to fix the problems TODAY, and even gave us tips on maximizing the effectiveness of the water which I really appreciated as we are going to have water rate increases for the next 5 years. And all of this was for less $$ than the last company quoted. This company also handles drainage issues and landscape lighting too. And the lead technician also gave me a copy of our local gardening guru's latest book. Curious what you spend on your sprinkler system annually. I know prices will vary regionally and by size, etc, but this is one of those things that I've thought about getting a quote for but have no idea of the price range I'd be considering.
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