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Also, I don't know if all varieties of geraniums attract and poison JBs. These in particular are the red zonal geraniums.

@digitS' are you saying there is a weed in the geranium family? Besides wild geranium...cranes bill something?

Wow, Bob, you've really had a rough year! I hope you are in for a long boring healthy stretch of time now.

I couldn't figure out why my geraniums had dead J. B. bugs around the pot every day, and a few dead or nearly dead in the blooms. I asked the seller where I bought them if they had perhaps used systemic insecticide on them before selling. He said no, but that geraniums have a toxic effect on...

I don't see how a person could even manufacture something this deadly. How is the producer still alive?

Seedcorn, if I remember correctly, the germination on parsnips is very low to start with. Sounds like you really got a dud package. I picked my first green beans in the last couple days, they are the Fortex I had left over from two or three years back. I am happy to say they do look like...

You can try finding organic flour, and make your own bread. I have finally gotten my sourdough starter strong enough to make good bread. It is just 3 ingredients: flour, water and salt. You may have to order flour on the net. The pandemic has gotten everybody and their brother making bread, and...

Gosh, Steve, I don't even remember asking about a trimmer. Unless it was the flame thrower I was contemplating. Didn't buy one. I am using a battery trimmer. I like it quite a lot. It's small, light weight and self feeding. But I am still interested in a flame thrower. Just because, you...

Hi there! Welcome from SE Missouri. Are you anywhere near Paducah? That's the main place I know in Western Ky. The lockdown brought out some strange new hobbies for several of us, I would think. Are you growing mostly flowers or have you started on vegetables, too? Either is a worthwhile past...

A little off topic, but...do you find that your chickens hang out together depending on color? I have three blackish chickens that hang out together, not all the same variety, two Easter eggers that hang out together, one welsummer that is a loner, and a white EE that hangs out with everyone. In...

Backyard Chickens forum is fun but there are so many members, one tends to get lost in the shuffle. This one has fewer members, and we are able to get to know each other. Marie2020, do you have your spring planting in? Do you have a garden allotment, or a back yard? I think I would do better...

I think it's a great idea. May be a bit of a mess trying to figure out how to present the info. I like the BYC feature of having some members write articles and allowing the other members to "rate" the helpfulness and accuracy of the article. I also like the badges people can earn for being...

They say the rats in NYC are getting vicious, fighting for any scrap of food, since the restaurants are closed. The corona virus hurts everyone!

You know, she comes out and joins the other girls for over 3 hours every day, when they free range. I don't think she's that serious. But, that doesn't mean she will break on her own soon. Thanks for the heads up.

Years ago when I was working in a florist, I opened a box of FTD containers, a mallard-looking planter. In one of them I found a tiny lizard, about 3 inches long, still alive from his long journey from China. I named him Hop One Duck, and we kept him there in the shop for a while, but he finally...

With my previous batch of chickens, I never had one go broody, but the Black Copper Marens I have decided to go broody this week. She is really cranky when I push her out of the nest box every day. Growling at me, pecking at me. Hackles raised. She has perfected the "stink-eye". Since this is...

Dealing with impacted anal glands is no fun, certainly not for the dog. And the covid-19 arrangements for vet visits is stressful. I have been going through that, too. I feel like there are questions that need to be asked, that I don't think of, during that 15 second phone call. Are you supposed...

So the vet says it's her knee that is bothering her, not her hip. She thought it was arthritis, too, and prescribed an anti-inflammatory/pain pill and glucosamine supplement. Also, since Penny was due to have the anal glands checked, I asked them to do that too, and, darn it, she has an...

Yeah, I don't think slugs like the sun. Kinda like Dracula.

Woah! I see the camper is snake proof, anyway. Big snakes are a shock to us mere humans, even if we know they are not going to bite us.