So sad - Found one of my Hummers dead
ladyamity
17 years ago
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I found a dead animal in my veggie beds!!!
Comments (8)Better a dead rat than a live one. I always kick or thump the compost bin a couple of times, then wait a moment to let any inhabitants know I'm coming before I take off the lid. I've been surprised in the past.... Serpiously though, I wouldn't worry about it. Rinse off your produce before you eat it. You are in more danger from supermarket stuff. How do you know that the last person who touched that apple washed their hands after using the restroom?...See Morefeeder broke hummers sad and mad
Comments (2)I dont have many flowers only hostas and portulacas and all summer my hummers have ignored the flowers untill just recently have they dived down to the portulacas....See Moremy poor garden is looking so sad
Comments (6)Well, good heavens, it is July, you know, and a hotter-than-usual one at that. It doesn't matter how good my garden looks in June, July is a garden-slayer. So, take comfort in the fact that you are not alone....and the fall planting dates are coming up! The heat makes cucumbers bitter, so you can plant another round of cukes for fall and have delicious cucumbers once again. Yellow leaves on a tomato are signs of many things. Often the oldest leaves near the bottom just turn yellow as they age, or it could be a sign of a disease or heat stress. Remove the yellow leaves. Water the tomato (at the ground level to keep water off the foliage) and feed it if you think it needs to be "boosted" at little, and you should see new growth soon. Bumpy bean leaves do indicate a plant virus but, if the plants are still producing beans, I wouldn't pull them yet but would pull them if production has stopped or almost stopped. I can't help you with the pooped-out garden helper, though, because I feel the same way....it is too hot "out there" in the garden to do much of anything. As far as $$$$ spent compared to the harvest received, it will get better as you gain experience AND in the years that the weather cooperates a bit more than it did this year. Remember, too, if you are gardening organically, to consider how much more expensive organic produce is at the grocery store. Finally, if gardening is fun and enjoyable, it is worth the $$$ spent. For me, gardening is a 'lifestyle' and I spend the money on the garden that other people spend on movies and amusement parks and vacations. Since I enjoy my time in the garden so much, it is worth the money to me. I always encourage veggie gardeners to 'try again' in the fall because often the fall gardening season is more productive than the spring/summer one. Of course, it is largely dependent on the late summer/fall weather as well as the timing of the first fall freeze. Still, the produce I get in the fall makes me forget how horrible July and August were. And there's one more "dirty little secret" in the gardening world that no one really talks about, and it is this: While it is nice to have lovely, deep green, lush, healthy-looking tomato plants in spring and early summer, it is normal for them to look yellowing, browning, sad, sick, pitiful, crispy and half-dead as the season wears on. Producing tomatoes, especially in very high heat and intense sunlight, is very, very, very hard on a plant. I just ignore how awful the plants look by mid- to late-July and keep them watered and fed, if needed, and keep on harvesting tomatoes. Am I proud of how the plants look in mid- to late-July? Definitely not. But, are they doing their 'job' of producing fruit? Yes. So, who cares what the plants look like. Hang in there. Cooler weather and the joy of fall gardening are just around the corner! Dawn...See MoreI am SO SO SAD
Comments (15)Thank you all....it will take some time for me to get over this. You are all right, one would assume that a parent would feed the babies well enough before fledging for them to make it through the process or surly see that they were failing and needed to be fed a few more times to make it up to the sky. I have been over and over this in my head, I have so many questions that I know nobody will have the answers to. The first being how does a Tres get hit by a car on a nearly no traffice rural road, then it all snowballs from there. I am sure everybody feels this way wether it be a HOSP a HOWR, a racoon, ants, snake, poisioning or cat, it HURTS to lose one of our birds and to know it suffered and to think there MAY have been something more you could have done. I guess I should consider myself very lucky to have this be my first loss in 5 years. Thank you all again, nobody but you guys would really understand this heartache....See Morepenny1947
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