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IF you read my new thread about which perennials to plant and those to avoid I found several of the "good guys" for sale at Eden Bros. I also found that I earned a $25 Farm & Fleet coupon (phone email only now), so I will have to spend it tomorrow. DD's found this armoire with cedar inside, 4...

No luck finding any peonies for DD's. I will buy two peonys for them in Fall. There are several I saw on line that are fragrant. Also NO luck finding any more peony cages! :rant And, so...I will replace the peony cage on my middle blueberry with a large plastic coated blue tomato cage...

I weeded the front beds by the sidewalk to the house. It was preliminary bc I need to dig up and reset the broken pavers that I have used to hold back the soil. Several of them are flopped over. I have saved rebar to pound in to hold them up. We have had SO much rain recently that many...

Domestic turkeys are a sneeze away from wild turkeys and they can fly up to tree branches, which helps with predators.

Tenma was a stray, somebody found her wandering in a field as a puppy, so YES, she has had a wonderful life. That's the best that anybody can do for their beloved dog.

My jobs. ToDAY I am working through them. While cleaning up the top of the garage cabinet, which has become a "catch all", I have been cleaning up dusty and dirty binders. I bought five (100 sheet) lined notebook paper sheets, FOUND a 200 sheet package (in the garage on top of the mess), and I...

BTW, Eden Bros had many of these available and recommended.

Groundcovers to avoid. 1) Yellow Archangel 2) Snow on the Mountain 3) Periwinkle--Vinca 4) Pachysandra 5) Creeping Jenny 6) English Ivy--this will eat through the mortar on your brick house 7) Lily of the Valley--Mine has SLOWLY spread around the NW corner of the house--I think the...

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.