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Steve, Yes, I do need to check in more often. It has been a crazy few years, not on line much just getting back to it now. Thank you for your input, I will show my husband the thread and all the advice. Monica.

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Sorry, I should have mentioned it is a Red Maple. We have been here 10 yrs and it was about 5' tall when we moved in. We cut that branch about 10 yrs. ago.

My husband was wondering if there is something we can put in this opening to keep water out and to make sure this part of the tree doesn't break off.

We noticed this a couple of weeks ago. We love this tree. My husband was wondering if he could bolt it to keep it from splitting more or breaking. Is there anything we can do or does it just have to come down?

We just moved to this county three weeks ago. I don't know where the extension is yet. I was thinking Virginia creeper. We have a whole bunch of the first photo. They are all around the property. Some are just a stand or row of these others are surrounding trees. I think all the trees are...

Thanks, I have some I need to move also.

The first one is about 6-12' but we have these all over all different sizes. These next 2 are both vines We have many different vines growing all over. I'm sure some is kudzu but we are relatively new to this part of the country and don't know what it looks like. Thanks Monica

We just bought a 5ac. farm in middle TN. The let the yard go wild. We are removing shrubs/ bushes/trees that are in our way. Some we like and want to identify them so we can replace them. I have tried to identify them on line with no luck. I need help!:\ These are all from the same shrub/tree it...

Steve we are at 5856ft. Our growing season gets confusing. In the 4 1/2 yrs. we've lived here, we have had temps in the 70's through new years, our first snow the first week of Oct., snow in July, temps in the 70's in Jan. There is no telling what this year will bring. Last week it was in the...

DGD and I just finished planting our herbs in pots for the deck. We planted: Chives,oregano, thyme, sage, parsley, tarragon, cumin, basil, cilantro, dill, blue hyssop, feverfew, lavendar, lemon bee balm, lemon balm, chamomile. I am thinking of planting watermelon and pumpkin in the lower part of...

I finally was able to plant! We have not had any freezing temps or snow for a week! DGD and I started early this morning, we got the whole garden done. Tomorrow we will bw planting herbs in pots for the deck. We planted: three types of sweet peppers,two types of carrots,spinning...

I am jealous!! I still can't even start planting yet. I woke up to SNOW AGAIN!!! It looks like I MAY be able to start next week. Monica

Up in the mountains above Frazier Park. That's between LA and Bakersfield right off the grapevine. I lived in Ventura county (cam., ox., hueneme), on and off for about 37 yrs!!! DH lived in Santa Paula, ojai, Hueneme, Ventura, for 40 yrs!! We still have family in Santa Paula, Ventura and Somis...

I got my seeds today!!:celebrate Unfortunately I cannot do anything with them until Monday. I have cooking/baking to do tomorrow for a bbq with friends on sat. and we have civil war re-enactment on sun. Monica

silkiechicken- WE recently bought our turtle a larger tank and decided to try his old one to start my seeds in. I am using a large clip on worklight type of thing witha flourescent heatbulb (the ones we use for our well pumps etc.), we bought some plastic light covers the sheets like you put...

DH is making me a cold frame out of french doors he replaced at DMIL's. He is building them into the southfacing hillside by the garden. The link for the hotbed looks like the type of frame he is going to do. I think I will put an ad on freecycle for old windows! With the wind we have here we...

DH replaced DMIL's french doors recently. He is going to make me cold frames out of them. He is going to build them into our hillside by our garden. They will be south facing, we figure that this will be okay. We plan to prop or open the door during the day. Hopefully he can get them done soon...