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Well, over at BackYardChickens we can talk about fowls. So there!:plbb

I'm restarting this thread because I have a couple of crepe myrtles I need to move. They were planted in dark shade RIGHT next to my porch, and they've grown to sixteen feet tall and spindly thin, reaching for sunlight. The ground around them is clay disguised as concrete. I KNOW they will...

So does ANYONE know what to do with the whiteflies? Besides curse them?:duc

A friend of mine has voles. She has had to plant EVERYTHING in the garden in little wire baskets to keep the voles away. The things she says about them . . . . well, I don't think you need to know. Fortunately for these iris, they are in a traffic island in the middle of the parking lot, and...

Do we have pillbugs???:gig Yes, we have a pillbug or two, here and there. . . .and there. . . .and over there. . . . But, gosh, I didn't know they did damage to anything. I have chickens at home. The irises are at work where I am unofficially in charge of the garden. If it's really just...

Fireflies are one of the reasons I love the South! They don't have them in the Pacific Northwest. When I saw them for the first time here I was completely hooked!

Are they tubers? I don't remember the name. I just dug them all up last month, and replanted them. I laid them on finished compost and tucked in the roots. I thought the sun (North Carolina) would be too hot for them, but I'm darned if they haven't just settled in and swelled up and look fat...

I haven't had much luck with lavendar, either. I live in North Carolina. I'm FROM Seattle, and my family is still there. Everybody and his brother has lavendar growing all over everywhere. You wade through it walking down the streets. What have they got that I haven't got? I DO have...

I moved into my neighborhood three years ago, and the whiteflies are like a snowstorm everywhere you walk here. I know I would never be able to get rid of them since they ARE all over the neighborhood, but maybe if I could just get a handle on them somehow I could live with them??? I do know...