Recent content by flowerbug

we get so much heavy fogs and dews here. it's been over 20yrs of gardening and tomatoes here and no signs it is getting worse, just looks bad at the end of the season. last year was a better year in looks because we had such extended dry spells, but that still doesn't remove the evening heavy...

yes, whatever it is that gets the tomatoes here i did try all sorts of things and nothing made much difference other than giving the plants a lot more space, but in the end it does still take them out eventually. my continued growing of them works because by the time the blight gets way too bad...

foggy this morning in parts, going to continue to be warm for a few more days before the cold returns.

i used to have three eight foot shelves with lights on them from above, plus the floor in front of the bottom shelf all full of house plants and a few terrariums, but this was many years ago before i went off to college. i took a few plants with me and kept hauling them around from place to...

or keep looking.

they have done several of those releases in a river not far from here but as of yet i've not had the right chance to attend. i'm hoping to get there sometime in the next few years...

instead of a weiner dog its a screener dog.

when you join a HOA that is what you get and are signing up for, if you don't want to be in one don't join it - very simple. it is actually a freedom to make that choice or not. HOAs are not that... we could not have the home we'd like being in a HOA so we're not a part of that here where we...

such a facinating creature :)

i do not use the Oxford comma as i see it does not reflect how i would say it, no pause, no room for that and it is a waste of such a huge effort...

is that area really dry or facing west? if so try to set up some small piles of detritus and keep them slightly moist and shaded somehow.

... i've been wondering how you were doing there, glad to hear from you and hoping the setbacks will be resolved.

they need to be maintained... probably just them wanting to keep it simple.

true. we built a treefort, it was pretty nice, someone complained and we had to take it down, we had a big clunky chain and a rope. we tried to pull it down with the chain which was tied to the rope that was tied to the tree house. as we were pulling the rope broke and that big chain came...

i was so excited about taking the trash and recycling out this morning that i woke up almost four hours early. i didn't get back to sleep but i did have a nice breakfast (a bowl of chili with shredded cheese and some mustard on top). after i got everything out there (walking through the few...