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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 6, 2021 20:25:52 GMT -5
Guarding my front door from people trying to sell me home security systems, auto warranties and other not needed stuff. I usually get one of those somewhere around my front porch shrubbery. I always call them Esmerelda. Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of tunnel spiders. I just call those creepy. Esmerelda earned her keep today. Scared off another unwelcomed sales person. You go, girl!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2021 4:10:07 GMT -5
Rats. There's a 40% chance of thunderstorms after 11am. I know that means there's a 60% chance that there won't be thunderstorms, but I have this feeling... ETA: It's 40 percenting out there right now, and it's not even close to 11am. I'm not happy
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Post by finnime on Sept 7, 2021 5:32:58 GMT -5
I'm very happy with the results of using 30% vinegar on weeds. They died and remain dead, dead, dead. No regrowth. Our county has banned a variety of herbicides and I needed something, especially for the gaps in the walkways and between the bricks of the patio. I just spray it on, undiluted, covering the leaves, and the weeds promptly clock out.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2021 3:21:37 GMT -5
I meant to look for 30% vinegar when we were out yesterday. Drat. Next time. According to NOAA weather and the radar, there's no rain before 9am. I might have time to plant some baptisia and larkspur seeds. ETA: I looked again. Nothing showing up on radar between now and noon. Woo. Hoo. And stuff More ETA: So I murdered more weeds, raked up a bunch of leaves around flowers that will keep blooming for another month or so, and didn't plant the baptisia or larkspur. My excuse for not planting the seeds is that I haven't quite decided where they're gonna go. More thinking is needed.
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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 8, 2021 10:43:09 GMT -5
I meant to look for 30% vinegar when we were out yesterday. Drat. Next time. According to NOAA weather and the radar, there's no rain before 9am. I might have time to plant some baptisia and larkspur seeds. ETA: I looked again. Nothing showing up on radar between now and noon. Woo. Hoo. And stuff More ETA: So I murdered more weeds, raked up a bunch of leaves around flowers that will keep blooming for another month or so, and didn't plant the baptisia or larkspur. My excuse for not planting the seeds is that I haven't quite decided where they're gonna go. More thinking is needed. I'm not sure if it's 30%, but I use the regular white vinegar you can find at the food store (Heinz/generic store brand). It does the job.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2021 10:50:00 GMT -5
Tennesseer Nope. I need 30%. If it came in 50%, that would be better. You haven't met my weeds (and trust me, you don't want to). A flame-thrower might work.
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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 8, 2021 11:07:04 GMT -5
Tennesseer Nope. I need 30%. If it came in 50%, that would be better. You haven't met my weeds (and trust me, you don't want to). A flame-thrower might work. You may laugh at this, but if you have really stubborn weeds you might want to buy a small hand-held torch to burn them. These small torches are often used to slightly burn the top sugars on crème brûlée desserts. They are pretty inexpensive (like $13) and can be bought at Target and other big box stores which have a kitchen/cooking department.
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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 8, 2021 11:09:07 GMT -5
Tennesseer Nope. I need 30%. If it came in 50%, that would be better. You haven't met my weeds (and trust me, you don't want to). A flame-thrower might work. I checked. Lowes has 30% vinegar.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2021 11:25:05 GMT -5
Tennesseer Nope. I need 30%. If it came in 50%, that would be better. You haven't met my weeds (and trust me, you don't want to). A flame-thrower might work. I checked. Lowes has 30% vinegar. They also have the thatching rake that I want. Ima see if DD will take me over there on Sunday when I'm off. Seriously thinking about the little torch thingie. Reckon it would make the copperheads mad? The overgrown weed patch is actually the side yard where nothing is planted and where we've had a lot of trees taken down...and where the copperheads live. I'd really like to just clear it out and keep it cleared out. You know, like scorched earth! When I have to go down there, I don't go without my gardening boots so that if a copperhead gets near me, it will bite a boot instead of me.
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Post by Tennesseer on Sept 8, 2021 12:24:14 GMT -5
I checked. Lowes has 30% vinegar. They also have the thatching rake that I want. Ima see if DD will take me over there on Sunday when I'm off. Seriously thinking about the little torch thingie. Reckon it would make the copperheads mad? The overgrown weed patch is actually the side yard where nothing is planted and where we've had a lot of trees taken down...and where the copperheads live. I'd really like to just clear it out and keep it cleared out. You know, like scorched earth! When I have to go down there, I don't go without my gardening boots so that if a copperhead gets near me, it will bite a boot instead of me. At Lowes you can also purchase spray bottles. Fill the bottle up with your vinegar and spray away. You can also purchase ground kill chemicals in a spray bottle. Don't know how it would affect trees and sgphrubs but it supposedly would kill grasses, weeds, flower plants and the like.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2021 13:11:02 GMT -5
The spray bottles, even the big ones, don't do the job. I have some BioAdvanced tough brush killer, but it doesn't do the job as well as RoundUp did. With RoundUp, I could spray in the spring, again in the fall and pretty well take care of it.
I'll use the vinegar along the outside edge of the monkey grass that edges the garden from the mess in the side yard.
DD said she'd take me after she takes a nap and before her project gets loaded for her to start on. I won't have time to start on dethatching today but will have the rake to use when I'm off Sunday thru Wednesday next week.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2021 16:44:41 GMT -5
I am soooo excited! Got a thatching rake, a hoe, 30% vinegar and four small-ish mums to put in a small-ish pot just for this year. They'll get transplanted to a bigger pot in the spring. Two yellow, two orange, and still just tiny closed-up buds so they won't bloom for a couple of weeks. It doesn't take a lot to please me Now I just can't wait until Sunday!
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Post by happyhoix on Sept 9, 2021 7:10:26 GMT -5
Tennesseer Nope. I need 30%. If it came in 50%, that would be better. You haven't met my weeds (and trust me, you don't want to). A flame-thrower might work. I have horrible black berry bushes that keep spring up under a big slope of blue rug juniper. I used to just cut back the stems because I can’t dig up the roots without damaging the junipers. Last year I tried that brush killer stuff and that seems to kill the roots - but I only got about half the slope done. The other half has become a blackberry thicket with junipers at the bottom. I had some small dropper bottles I was applying the stuff with but they had sharp metal tips and I was afraid I would fall crawling through the junipers on this 35 to 40 degree slope and impale myself in the eye with brush killer. So yesterday I got my new big 150 mls snub nosed syringes that I can hopefully kill the blackberry roots with without actually killing my myself. DH can’t mow right now (broken mower) so he has has promised to help kill blackberry shrubs. It isn’t not sweltering this Saturday, we’ll engage the enemy.
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Post by finnime on Sept 9, 2021 7:32:29 GMT -5
We have one of those garden torches to kill weeds. It works to an extent but not as effectively as the 30% vinegar, which you can spray in a larger area, and doesn't last as long to keep things cleaned up. Roots and seeds seem to survive it, where they succumb to the vinegar.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2021 15:17:28 GMT -5
So. I was off at 10 this morning and home before 10:30. Sat outside for a bit with a cup of coffee and did what my daddy used to call "hatching a plot." Once the plot was hatched, I gathered up my new hoe and the 30% vinegar and went out to murder weeds. Mission accomplished. Tomorrow we'll see if the vinegar worked. Oh, BTW Tennesseer, Home Depot sells the same 30% vinegar, and it comes with a spray bottle for a dollar more than Lowe's. I'm gonna get theirs next time...the spray bottle would have been handy. The new little mums have been planted in the small-ish pot. It was a cool morning, and I stayed outside for three hours. Whoa. Haven't done that in a long time! After lunch and a nap, I took a glass of tea outside to, as we say in the South, set a spell. It occurred to me that the flowers hadn't been fertilized since I can't remember when so that gone done. While I was wandering around amid the flowers, I spied a globe amaranth growing all by its lonesome and moved it to a spot with some friends, fertilized those and fertilized the mums that were planted this morning. I fully expect to come home from work tomorrow morning and find a lush garden overflowing with new flowers and foliage and dead weeds.
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Sept 9, 2021 20:03:26 GMT -5
Lowe's sells empty spray bottles. I mark the outside with what ever I put in it. I think I'll get some 30% vinegar. Roundup can cross over to other plants underground.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2021 18:12:31 GMT -5
I did things in the garden when I got home from work. Things. I started to cut back some daisies and black-eyed Susans, but then the oh-look-shiny syndrome took over. What got done was a little of this, a little of that, filling up a garden cart with weeds before I discovered that I don't have any more yard waste bags for them. A trip to Home Depot is in order.
In any case, it doesn't look like anything got done even though I worked out there for nearly two hours.
Tomorrow is another day.
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Post by CCL on Sept 11, 2021 18:26:14 GMT -5
Lowe's sells empty spray bottles. I mark the outside with what ever I put in it. I think I'll get some 30% vinegar. Roundup can cross over to other plants underground. They usually have spray bottles at the dollar stores, too, for a buck.
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Sept 11, 2021 18:52:58 GMT -5
I went to Lowe's to look at kitchen cabinets. I left with 5 packages of bulbs!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2021 11:12:33 GMT -5
We were in Lowe's just the other day, but the only bulbs they had were for daffodils. I want Ixia bulbs empress of self-improvement And the cabinets? Maybe Google free-standing kitchen cabinets. After work I stopped at Great Clips and got my hair cut (or as they say in Milwaukee, hair s). So now I'm free for the rest of the day and can play in the dirt. That's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna play in the dirt. Not making a specific plan in case I'm struck by the oh-look-shiny syndrome again
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Post by happyhoix on Sept 12, 2021 12:39:10 GMT -5
Spend the morning yesterday cutting back and poisoning blackberry bushes on the slope that’s supposed to only have blue rug juniper.
For thirty plus years of marriage DH has explained to me how he’s useless in the yard for anything except mowing because he can’t tell the difference between good plants and weeds. I told him the only thing that’s supposed to be on that slope is blue rug juniper, and everything that doesn’t look like blue rug juniper needs to be rooted out. You cannot tell me you cannot see a significant difference between, say, a rug juniper, which has evergreen limbs that lay flat on the ground and NO THORNS and a blackberry bush that grows upright, is NOT EVERGREEN and HAS A GAZILLION THORNS.
After that come-to -Jesus meeting he has agreed that he probably can tell the difference between those two and that he could help me beat them back and poison the crap out of them.
I just hope he doesn’t decide to stage a fall down the slope to try to injure himself just enough he can go back to watching TV. The man hates doing anything in the yard that does not involve sitting on his mower. But dang it, it’s too big a job for just me.
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Sept 12, 2021 12:45:56 GMT -5
We were in Lowe's just the other day, but the only bulbs they had were for daffodils. I want Ixia bulbs empress of self-improvement And the cabinets? Maybe Google free-standing kitchen cabinets. After work I stopped at Great Clips and got my hair cut (or as they say in Milwaukee, hair s). So now I'm free for the rest of the day and can play in the dirt. That's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna play in the dirt. Not making a specific plan in case I'm struck by the oh-look-shiny syndrome again They had daffys but I don't need those. I got tulips and anemones. Now to plant them before December🤪 I was actually looking at a couple of stand alone storage units yesterday. I am considering them. What I am really after is a work table with shelves underneath. I hate all of the cabinets and since I'm never moving out, apparently, I'm doing the damn kitchen how I want it, not for resale purposes. Plus I need to do some insulating work. I don't they used any when they built back in the 50s.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2021 13:58:45 GMT -5
empress of self-improvement This is a wild idea but...maybe look at work tables intended for a garage or workshop? Might find one with a pegboard (handy for hanging pots and pans?), sufficient work space, and shelves below. If you find one that suits and it's just bare wood, you could paint it to match whatever your kitchen colors are. There I go again, thinking outside the box. That's something I've told my kitty to never, ever do So I loaded up the leaves and other yard waste and dumped it all in the side yard where nothing grows but weeds. It took three loads in each of two garden carts, and I'm telling ya! That was work. Work, I say. Then I broke out the Sevin spray again and treated the cannas. This has been a banner year for the leaf rollers and nearly a dud in the blooming department, dammit. And the weeds. The weeds. Sigh. The lawn can wait until tomorrow to get mowed. I saw a robot mower online today. It's just a little thing sort of like a Roomba. Cost? A mere $1400. Nah. I'll stick with my self-propelled Toro. All I have to do is crank 'er up and march along behind to steer it. Oh, and some carburetor cleaner and a spark plug every now and then and some gas. But, yanno, it would be fun to watch that little robot zipping along in the grass...
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Post by happyhoix on Sept 12, 2021 15:03:49 GMT -5
empress of self-improvement This is a wild idea but...maybe look at work tables intended for a garage or workshop? Might find one with a pegboard (handy for hanging pots and pans?), sufficient work space, and shelves below. If you find one that suits and it's just bare wood, you could paint it to match whatever your kitchen colors are. There I go again, thinking outside the box. That's something I've told my kitty to never, ever do So I loaded up the leaves and other yard waste and dumped it all in the side yard where nothing grows but weeds. It took three loads in each of two garden carts, and I'm telling ya! That was work. Work, I say. Then I broke out the Seven spray again and treated the cannas. This has been a banner year for the leaf rollers and nearly a dud in the blooming department, dammit. And the weeds. The weeds. Sigh. The lawn can wait until tomorrow to get mowed. I saw a robot mower online today. It's just a little thing sort of like a Roomba. Cost? A mere $1400. Nah. I'll stick with my self-propelled Toro. All I have to do is crank 'er up and march along behind to steer it. Oh, and some carburetor cleaner and a spark plug every now and then and some gas. But, yanno, it would be fun to watch that little robot zipping along in the grass... I have visions of it zipping right through the day Lillies, or terrorizing the bunnies. DH once ran his yard tractor over the corner of one of my raised beds, taking out a tomato plant, and that was being steered by a sober human being. Who knows what a Roomba lawnmower could do.
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Sept 12, 2021 16:15:14 GMT -5
MissR-i'm starting to think we share a brain. What I neglected to mention earlier is that I started looking at workshop tables and am seriously thinking about a Craftsman one because it's red. I need to find the 60 inch because 72 is too long. Lowe's only had the 72" and i would need to call my sister to get it home. I'm going to go look at Home Depot this week.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2021 16:29:00 GMT -5
MissR-i'm starting to think we share a brain. What I neglected to mention earlier is that I started looking at workshop tables and am seriously thinking about a Craftsman one because it's red. I need to find the 60 inch because 72 is too long. Lowe's only had the 72" and i would need to call my sister to get it home. I'm going to go look at Home Depot this week. Ooo! Ooo! How about a potting bench? I bet you could find one that's smaller, has shelves, drawers, even a pegboard. They're probably a heckuva lot cheaper, too.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Sept 12, 2021 21:03:06 GMT -5
I'm very happy with the results of using 30% vinegar on weeds. They died and remain dead, dead, dead. No regrowth. Our county has banned a variety of herbicides and I needed something, especially for the gaps in the walkways and between the bricks of the patio. I just spray it on, undiluted, covering the leaves, and the weeds promptly clock out. Huh. I'll have to try this.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Sept 12, 2021 21:08:07 GMT -5
Our potting bench is made of 2x4s and plywood. You two are fancy.
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Post by empress of self-improvement on Sept 13, 2021 6:17:16 GMT -5
We do? Never been accused of having good taste before.😁
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