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Pat, it makes me wish I'd joined early enough to add my 2 cents worth on your weather whining thread...as it is, I'm eventually turning every other thread into a surrogate Whine Zone.

I finally froze the last 7 lbs of blueberries, so we can add them to muffins, pancakes and cornbread (last winter's fun discovery). :P

Gee, is it wrong of me to be envious of night temps in the 40's? We're already there, including some summer nights (and I wonder why the tomatoes were a dud). Tonight it's definitely the sheets, with mid 30's expected & possible frost in mt valleys. We've never decided if we qualify. Not to...

Wow! When I look at the picture of that behemoth (imagine how many square meals you could get!) watermelon and compare it with my late season, still optimistic butternut squash hanging in there, it's hard not to feel a little melon-choly.

Pat, sounds like we share the same weather.

Mirime, that's funny! Our weather happened just the opposite of yours, as wet/dry periods go. Everything was an extreme - too much dry, then pounded to the flooding point with pouring rain every day mid-summer. Can you picture little wrinkled lightning bugs, from soaking in all that water...

I have an Excalibur - it's great! It works nicely even when I don't have a chance to switch trays. It holds a lot of food and includes the fruit/yogurt roll-up shields.

I usually don't get around to digging up any of the spuds until the plants are dried to a crisp, but that could be the procrastinator in me...or just wanting the maximum "spuddage" possible. Every year we seem to do it at a different time, up to when the ground is seriously frozen, which I don't...

That's really interesting, Pat - thanks! "Moist R Us" could be the name of our yard, surrounded by water on 3 sides (swamp, ditch & stream, brook). The spooky thing is that we truly didn't have our fireflies at all during July, part of what would be peak. We were so busy trying to survive...

Oh, that is SO cool! :clap Where have you been all my life? I don't know about you, but it freaks me out when I see birdbaths priced astronomically high...esp since I'm afraid it would eventually come to ruin with our snoopy cats, chickens, you-name-it...

So, Mirime, did you have weird weather this summer...anything that may have thrown them off, like a cooler rainy summer? This is the first year I can remember having this happen.

If you need any mosquitoes, we will gladly ship you some! They are relentless this year...all that rain. And our bat population is down, due to white nosed fungus disease.

Gee, I hope we aren't in the beginning stages of Lightning Bug Collapse! Where would we be without those little flying stars on a hot summer's night? Come to think of it, due to our wacky Vermont Monsoon portion of this summer (almost all of it), most nights were unusually cool, like 50's and...

I've noticed we don't seem to have any lightning bugs, which is very unusual. I think we had them earlier in the summer. I sure do miss them. :( Anyone else have the same problem?

Last year I tried covering certain crops with the bird netting mentioned earlier (edges held down with rocks)...it kept out the chickens, who apparently don't like to get their feet tangled, and also discouraged a greedy woodchuck. :P

I wonder if the bee colony collapse problem might be affecting our crops...our butternot squash is more flowers than fruit, and we only got one cuke... NOTHING slows down the zucchini...

These are such great suggestions! :lol: The only thing that hits me tonight is: The Easy Garden: It grows on you!

I'd like to change my user name from cheep cheep to chickaD, which has already been done on BYC. I've found that typing long names is for the birds! ;) Thanks!

Welcome, and many happy hours of gardening to you! :rose I just joined this week and it's a blast, as well as very informative.

I'm so sorry about your cat......that stinks! Years ago, a mean stray cat chased one of our cats into the road in front of a car and it got hit...it survived, minus one leg, and has been an indoor cat ever since. Hopefully our other cats have developed a healthy respect for the road, and...