'Hosta Mooch' on my Street
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What will happen when apples start falling on my new hostas?
Comments (7)Lot to digest there. The tree is in decline, and I don't do much any more with the apples, have never sprayed them, most are too high now. I do have an apple picker when the kids start climbing the thing, but the top half broke off so it won't reach as high as it should. All these years and I can't remember when the bigger, ripe ones start to drop, how dumb is that? I hear them at night here by my computer when the window is open. The green ones I don't bother about, just let them fall, may or may not pick them up depending on time & energy. Suckers are a problem in the other little garden near the tree; I'm always whacking them. Sigh, I never water the terrace so suckers have never appeared there. Maybe the tiller edger will go deep enough to sever the runner if they do. I can't grow any more trees, am out of room for them. The bottle business is on the other thread I started, probably on page 2 now, subject something like do these hostas look like they are going to make it, can't remember, am tired. It's a good idea, and when I'm not running to the hardware store for stupid reasons like I bought a connector for two hoses and could not turn the on off thingies, didn't want to force them with pliers and break them off or whatever, fingers sore from arthritis. The guy got them loose for me and I can turn them now. I buy a soaker hose for the front, start setting it up and ready to attach the laundry hose as an extender so it won't start the drip until it is in the garden. It's like two female connectors, and I need a female male on the ends because of the way the soaker hose is set up. I was so frustrated. Now I have to go back to the hardware store to see if there is some kind of adapter and return one soaker hose I bought for another garden because my neighbor loaned me his again, but I'm not enthusiastic about using it because it makes it much harder to weed. You partly bury a 2-litre bottle with a slit in the bottom and put water in the top to set up a slow drip, upping the chances that the water won't flow down the hill but water more deeply is essentially what that was about. Then I wrote what I did in this thread about putting the slit in the cap and opening up the bottom to make filling them easier. I forgot to water the hostas tonight. So much to do. Problems with everything, hard to stay on top of it all. They'll be fine. I want to lay a nice edging now that I have it cleaned up and am too tired to even think about it. Some kind of bricks, more work, maybe in the fall....See MoreWith ornamental plum tree now gone, too much sun for my hostas!
Comments (9)Stanlie, these people are power-crazy and do not want people (G-d forbid) to make a tree or shrub decision by themselves. Only the MANAGEMENT and BOARD know what trees and shrubs we should have. Judging from the extreme overuse of purple ornamental plum trees, trees planted by the curb way too close (resulting in stunting of the shorter species), etc., I have little confidence in the knowledge of the "landscape company" or their "landscape workers". No, they would not allow me to plant a large shrub or small tree. As a matter of face, I recall my neighbor Tom last year telling me quite indignantly that the "landscape workers" removed a Rose of Sharon his wife had planted 5 years earlier, because "it was too close to the building". They didn't even tell him or give him an opportunity to move it. They just snatched it out of the ground, and a rose bush, too....See MorePity me and my poor misshapen hostas
Comments (21)"Your time and the idea to strike a balance of garden with pets by proper care/training of your dogs and the caging your hostas is perfect" Well, thank you. We often joke that we bought the property for our dogs and then spend most of our time helicopter parenting their use of it. It's sad because it is true. And we did move here for our dogs and bought a yard with just an OK/acceptable house attached. Bought sight unseen, too- the first time we saw our new home was when we pulled into the driveway when we moved here from Ft. Lauderdale. Gardening was always a consideration when house shopping, but the existing six foot fencing sealed the deal. As I mentioned above I am seeing WAY more chipmunk damage than dog damage. I have lived here since '07 and never saw the first chipmunk until our one year minus dogs. It seems they have moved in and I have been fighting them ever since. They've eaten four 'June' just this last week. I have been building wire cages fast and furiously but I'm playing catch up at best. Don't want to kill trap or transport....See MoreNovember 2021 in my hosta garden
Comments (20)Japanese maple seedling in autumn color, a garden view with J maple and camellia, grape vine in autumn, and bad gardening (Passion flower vine growing all over Metasequoia tree)....See Moremosswitch
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