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Curt D'Onofrio
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Comments (5)Thrashers are a rare treat in some places. My area used to be lousy with them, but now I only see them rarely. They like human structures, I would find them in my old house, nesting in chimneys, etc. Nice bird....See MoreRaccoons! How I humanely evicted..
Comments (13)so.... any ideas on the way to stop the armadillo that digs for grub worms in my yard...humanely. I'm not going to shoot it. last night he had a very busy night. my back yard looks like someone set off land mines. btw...how long do those son of a guns live? this is the same one...I've seen for the past 6 years. HUGE. the small one that lived under my Mom's place moved on after I put wire fencing around the house. but the one that digs in my yard...he is a smart critter for sure!. this is also the start of the.same spring/summer issue with my dog who thinks snakes are the play with. I've put a lot of time into clearing out things...but he roams the woods on either side of me. Y'all would have laughed at me chasing my dog around the yard with a dead garter snake, trying to teach him to leave them alone. vet said he is probably a repeat offender! so far this spring I've found & released 4 baby garter snakes.. last summer my dog got bitten 3 times. first two were garter snakes...but the third one..I didn't get a look at. but at 10 pm we were at the emergency vet. took 2 weeks for the swelling in his throat to go back to normal. looked like he had a goiter! kudos to you wendy. rat poison & antifreeze are painful deaths. takes a cold heart to do that IMO. I don't like killing. btw has anyone watched billy the exterminator on a&e? I've watched a few episodes on hulu. he takes the critters & releases them, or puts them in facilities for wild life. one episode he was trying to catch a bobcat & got an armadillo instead. unfortunatley before the got there it died. hot humid Louisiana...he took it home to his pet cemetary, buried it & put a marker with the name he gave it. gotta like a guy with a heart. and a goth guy at that!! no problem with racoons here...guess they have easier places to nest than my house. I'd hate for my dogs to come across a mother with babies. they did get..or thought they got a possum..but she was playing dead. I got the dogs inside & told her to take her babies away from my yard....& she did. when I went back outside a half an hour later...no possum! I hope more people will show some mercy for animals. we are all God's creatures....See MoreWhat is finally being evicted this year?
Comments (9)Musa/ Maggie, mine did flower in the winter under a single grow light. The scent or "stench" was so strong that I had to remove all the flowers. But then its two summer flushes were "vaguely" scented. They didn't waft at all, like the year before. So I bid it goodbye. I was going to get rid of my Meyer Lemon too, but I gave it a 2nd chance, since I had just potted it in the gritty mix in a much bigger pot. I'm glad I kept it, as it shot a 6" branch in February. For the first time it's looking like a tree. There are no sign of flowers for the time being, though. We'll see. Maggie, why don't you plant a scrambling clematis at the feet of your Mr. Lincoln, if you like it so much. There are some scented ones, if you look! I have one (unscented one) Arabella growing at the feet of Ballerina. It flowers from June to September....See MoreHow to evict apple mint?
Comments (0)Hello all, I had planted it (it used to be variegated, and now it's just green) in a few places in our not so great soil years ago and then ignored it because I don't really like it. I'm more of a 'chocolate mint' fan. I seem to notice that whenever I don't like a plant, it propagates itself like mad. Anyway, I noticed it's spreading everywhere and anywhere, it's an alien plant invasion! I already had problems getting rid of tansy ( it's still coming up from seeds), but this stuff is awful! I used some cardboard to start burning the edges where it is getting ready to spread, and have built a bon fire in the middle of it last year, but it's still coming up. I dumped a bunch of wood ash on it (which works), but I'd need a dump truck load of the stuff. Plus I've got some quamash and self seeding valerian growing within it. I may just have to uproot the valerian and quamash until I destroy this invader from the tenacious plant kingdom. Any suggestions? I don't want to use poisons (roundup) that will make it so nothing will grow there that I would ever want to eat. Any suggestions except using nuclear force would be appreciated....See Morejeff-1010
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