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Up date on my Caster bean plant Al,,,,

meyermike_1micha

14 years ago

Look how good it's doing since my last post I think a month ago, in the 5.1.1 mix....

If we had gotten more than one month of warm weather this summer and more sun, I am sure they would of been a 5x bigger than now..Notice the impatients are doing well too..

:-)

Thanks!

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kathi_mdgd
14 years ago
We had the burgandy one of those,and we cut it down this year.It grows fast,and after we bought it we found out it was poisionous,and we had a small GS then,so we planted it outside our fence on the canyon edge.It throws a lot of seeds and we dig them out several times a week.It was pretty,but~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Yours looks nice with the impatients surrounding it.
Kathi
meyermike_1micha
Original Author
14 years ago
What are you trying to say...?
If a casterbean plant can grow on a crevis, than it should have no problem in the 5.1.1..mix..?

And that casterbean plants are nothing special, in fact a good for nothing poisoness plant?..lol

The impatients do look good..ha..Thanks..
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meyermike_1micha
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Ps...

Did I forget to mention that I hope these plants kill every dang squirrel in my yard, after demolishing my containers, ripping up my yard, and stealing hundreds of my big beautiful juicy peaches to only leave me 14 behind within just the past week!

What purpose do squirrels have anyways? Giant oversized rats !
ARG!
My father slipped on a peach and almost broke his hip...
greenman28 NorCal 7b/8a
14 years ago
Squirrels, huh?
I've been battling raccoons for a month now.
What would I give to have fourteen peaches, or even a single white nectarine....
The raccoons destroyed every piece of fruit, however, so I'll just have to dream...and hope like hell that there are a few grapes left by the end of summer.

Not only have they trashed my fruit in the garden, they've also damaged several succulents in containers on the deck.

The good news: last night, there were only three raccoons in the grape-vines. That means that half of the juveniles are dead. And, if I have anything to do with it, the other half'll be dead before too long, as well....unless the mama raccoon finds greener pastures in a hurry!

Not that I don't love all of G-d's creatures, great and small...

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kathi_mdgd
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Meyermike,
I meant no offense by what i said.All i meant was it didn't work for us,and if i thought it would kill those darn squirrels i may have reconsideded cutting it down!! It just got too big and threw too many seeds.DH never reads labels when he buys things,so it wasn't til after he bought it home i discovered it was poisonous,so that why it went behind the fence.DGS couldn't get to it there.

I'll have to admit it was a pretty tree though,and i'm still digging out seedlings.

As for the squirrels they had a field day in our peach tree this year.They didn't eat the whole thing,just took bites out of almost everyone.Last year we had so many peaches i had to freeze them,this year we got about 8 and the squirrels got the rest.
Kathi

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