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Please Pray for my middle DD's 15yo Spitz, "Tenma". She and SIL are working up the courage to euthanize her. She has had multiple strokes, can barely stand and is now incontinent. 🙏🙏🙏

Just posted a thread about flowers to never plant. HERE is one with recommendations. Please add YOUR favorites!! :hugs 14 Longest Blooming 1) Erigeron karvinskianus (Mexican Daisy) 2) Spike Speedwell -- Royal Candles and Crater Lake Blue cultivars 3) Calamintha Nepeta, White Cloud and...

10 DANGEROUS plants 1) Giant hogweed 2) Singing Nettle 3) Poison Oak 4) Gympie Gympie (comes from Australia, the land of the most poisonous snakes in the world 5) Spurge 6) Sago Palm 7) MIlkweed 8) Pencil Cactus 9) Burning Bush--ALMOST as invasive as Callery Pear ***The little...

This time of year we all get Giddy about flowering plants, when we see them advertised online. We need a thread about what plants NOT to plant. Sorry, couldn't link this, but here is the list, anyway. 10 plants you should not NEVER grow in your garden INvasive plants to avoid (UK): 1)...

WARNING, THIS is an AI--...

If you don't have pheasant it is probably bc coywolves are picking them off. There is a guy in S., where DD's live who raises them in about 4 large outdoor cages, something like 20'x100', and the enclosures protect them Most years from weasels, although I spoke to him once and a weasel got into...

First, PLEASE put "CO", and specify, mountains, high planteau or plains, with your avatar. We simply canNOT remember where you live each time that you post. Secondary, even in IL, where we will get a hotter summer than you every year, it isn't a good idea to put your tomatoes out until June 1st...

Anyone Near me who started their cool weather crops early are gonna have a Good Spring harvest. It's been warmish and coolish, which is, as in Thursday's Mid American Gardener panelists said, perfect weather for lettuces, spinach and cabbage. I will need to plant them in the Fall.

Middle DD did some research. "Sasha" means Protector "Tegan" means Beautiful

What a bummer! The rings like to rust, but I haven't seen the Lids rust. How do you store?

Me, too!! Eldest DD left me some mushrooms. I cut them up and started dehydrating, one tray. Should store nicely in a 1/2 pint jar. Btw, local small grocery store sells, Anchor brand canning lids, NOT the best, but without any writing stamped on them. They do well for marking with a Sharpie...

We have settled into clammy cold...with some sun.

Eldest DD bought me some gifts at ALDI yesterday, a Bypass pruner with: Fork Large Knife Wood Saw Peel and Soil Knife AND a set of Knee Pads.

I bought 4 of these blue pots at Dollar General back in early March. It is good know When stores like this Have Stuff like this. It is first come, first served, then, they are gone. i bought 1 large pot ($10), not used Yet, 2 medium sized pots ($5), which have herbs and one small ($2.50)...

BTW, "Moon," is one of the best sci fi movies out there: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182345/

YUCK!! I had to destroy a wild rose living on the south fencing of my south pasture. I could not beLIEVE how thick the thorns were on this! They do burn good...

STILL trying to get a good night's sleep every night. IT's hit and miss, so some days I don't get much done. Such was yesterday, but I Finally transplanted the 3rd Blueberry. In a row from east to west Legacy---Legacy---Blue Crop I still have to transplant the 2 seedless Concord Grapes. They...

I certainly Could do this! My firepit is from a hardware store kit of "tumbled belgian pavers," really tumbled cement bricks, some 3 layers high, with a metal liner and packages of pea stone at the bottom. I regularly clean out the ashes and I have a place in the side yard where I dump them...

@Rillowen bind weed is very difficult. In the past, prior to bad now repaired knees, I spent a good week digging up and eliminating bindweed on the west edge of my 4 car garage. I used a shovel, a painter's bucket and I cleaned the soil from bindweed runners in a wheelbarrow, then amended it...

Funny about weeds and how our relationships with them. I usually pull OUT wild violet wherever I find it, not too hard, shalow-ish roots, a small hand trowel will get them out for you, but I decided This year to leave them under my pear tree. Dunno about Any peaches from either tree this year...