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    ANTS!! help?

    when ever i find a fire ant hill,i use gasoline,doesn't take much and it works.wouldn't work in your flower beds tho.we have use grits and after a couple of days they are gone.we buy the big boxes of grits. these are not fire ants. i just picked up a piece of weed guard off the ground in the...
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    ANTS!! help?

    thanks ,will look it to them
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    ANTS!! help?

    my chickens don't eat them . yeah,the good old south.i hate bugs and hot weather so right now Ga stinks for me.lol
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    ANTS!! help?

    yep,sounds like our ants.they don't have "hills" that they are going to and they are going in every direction on the ground.when i find a line,i follow it ,usually, under a building or in the woods. we always wear our mud boots.we can't where flip flops anymore. they are making me crazy.when...
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    ANTS!! help?

    ok,we live in hot and humid central Ga and we have tons of ants.we live on high ground so if the dam were to ever break we would not flood but now i am convinced it is just a giant ant hill. seriously tho,all of our neighbors also have ant problems.they are everywhere.they get in the...
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    my "new" 25 yo rose bush-pictures today****

    thank you your advice D
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    my "new" 25 yo rose bush-pictures today****

    thank you :hide ok so i trimmed again they are all 3 growing nicely again but we will see if only one blooms.if they do it again,i will try to cut down the 2 smaller ones. do i cut it down all the way to the root or just keep it short?
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    my "new" 25 yo rose bush-pictures today****

    oh no,patience doesn't like me. i will not trim,i will not trim,i will not trim. thank you for the advice.i just wanted to do what is best for the little old pink lady and keep her happy. :rose
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    my "new" 25 yo rose bush-pictures today****

    hi everyone, so my rose is blooming again.Beautiful! one problem tho,the 2 smaller bushes have still never bloomed.just big plants.i think they are connected to the mother plant.do i need to cut them down to give more nutrients to the mother plant?if so how? also,the "little" flowers that...
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    my "new" 25 yo rose bush-pictures today****

    my "herd" is bigger(so is the feed bill) we have 19 cuttingbred horse-mostly quarter horses and a few paints thrown in. yes,we have alot of horse manure.lol
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    my "new" 25 yo rose bush-pictures today****

    also,does this one need tying up since it is not a climbing rose?the wind is really rough on it. how do i get the stem thicker or are they not supposed to be?
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    my "new" 25 yo rose bush-pictures today****

    actually i never found any rabbit poo,so i did use our horse manure.we use it in the veggie garden so why not. no,i don't know how to propogate them. as far as strains,the big root ball still had the rusted wire tag on it underground and it said "pink peace" rose if that helps any
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    my "new" 25 yo rose bush-pictures today****

    thanks :D although it is not really a bush yet,but it is VERY thorny.i am going to have to stake it up i think .the wind is rough on those little stems with big flowers. it has a amazing smell. thanks guys for all the advice for this little flower.
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    my "new" 25 yo rose bush-pictures today****

    here is the rose bush today. i pruned it earlier.just long skinny sprigs came out also a white fungus and sprayed it with a natural solution last week and pruned it again because most of it had the fungus on the new growth also,nothing blooming on the 2 little plants so they must be off...
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    cutting down a peach tree

    it is not too hot yet.maybe i will try it and see how it goes.i wonder if the roots will be tangled in the pine tree roots? thanks again D
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    cutting down a peach tree

    we have a little peach tree that has very sweet little peaches .little,maybe 6 ft tall and small trunk.it only produces 6-8 peaches last year.this tree was here when we moved here last summer.unfortunately we need to remove it.it is in between to large pines that we are having cut down and it is...
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    my "new" 25 yo rose bush-pictures today****

    thanks everyone.:weight i'll post pics of how it does this summer.:fl
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    camelia flower-any idea of the name?

    just found out i can get clippings and grow some more since this was the only one.wish me luck on this project and thanks for everyones comments.
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    moving cedar trees

    i went and researched them and i do think they are red cedar.they are only 6-12 inches now so i will move them to a better location.since they take so long to grow i may plant a few fast growing trees for christmas trees and let these be for the birds. thank everyone for your help. D
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    names for peas in georgia

    wow,you guys are good. thank you so much. raabfarm- yes,its a pink-eye purple hull cowpea.never heard them called cowpeas.interesting history on them.makes since that thats what we ate alot of,in Ga and we were poor growing up.i remember growing up with my grandparents and picking our own...
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