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July 3rd pics. I know, 2 days late, but better late than never
Comments (12)Thank you everyone. All things considered I feel pretty good for a week post op and I'm behaving quite well. doing only what I'm supposed to do. Drippy, those chipmunks are not funny and they sure aren't "chip and dale" either. Never mind the garden bed destruction that they create, the holes that they dig can be dangerous if you get your shoe or foot caught in one of them and go down. A year ago I did just that and tore ligaments in my ankle. The little boy that used to live next door got his foot in one when he was 4 and broke his leg. Now if that isn't enough insult here's more to add insult to injury. An article in the newspaper a few weeks ago said that chipmunks are a major carrier of deer tick now, more so than even deer and that could be the cause of a massive increase in the number of Lyme Disease cases being reported. Not that i needed an incentive to do everything I can to get rid of them, but that sure added a whole new layer to doing it. Then a friend called me last week the day before I went to the hospital to warn me that she was working in the gardens a month ago and she unknowingly disturbed a chipmunk that jumped on her arm and ran off. She didn't notice that she had a tick on her arm till the next day because it had attached right on top of a birthmark. 2 weeks later, bingo she has the classic bulls eye rash on her arm and has lyme disease. Chipmunks are not very smart. They can't swim, but will be more than happy to dive into water to get sunflower seeds and drown in the process and that's fine with me, right along with eating my datura as well. e-mail me if you want some info on chipmunks that like to dive for sunflower seeds. Bonny, the livingston daisy was WS by a friend of mine. There are 3 of us that share the WS for 3 gardens. We cane up with the idea to share it all after a couple of years of all of us sowing the same seeds then coming to my spring plant swap and all having the same extra seedlings. Didn't make sense so we split it up now. We end up with the same number of containers, more of each kind sowed, but the total variety is split between the homes and we end up with an even bigger variety of plants for the beds. Vera the color of that viola is beautiful. If you have any seeds for trade in the fall, I'd love some and will send you some of mine. PV, sow those seeds for next year. No matter how many of them you have, sow all of them cause they are a funny seed to germinate. My experience with them has been strange to say the least. My first seeds where from valueseeds.com. got 3 packets, 30 seeds in each packet and sowed them in early March. just sprinkled on the top of the soil cause they are small and tannish in color. Out of those 70 seeds we got 6 seedlings. Not a very happy camper that there, but I collected every single one of the seeds I could get my hands on from the plants and it was a ton of seeds, more than 1/4 tsp. Next year we sowed every one of those seeds, and I kept thinking OMG, what will I do if thousands of these seeds germinate. Well, no such luck, we got 20 seedlings last year. Figured ok, better than the year before and we will always have to sow every single seed we get. So this past year I had more than 1/2 teaspoon of seeds. We sowed 4 mushroom containers of seeds, the 10 ounce size container, put each one in a ziplock baggie and put them out in mid April this year. just an experiment to see if a later sowing would make any difference in the germination rate. They began to germinate on 4/29 the exact same day as the prior to years, and they where slow. But this year we saw how the seeds germinate. they swell to at least twice their original size and all but germinate 1 seed at a time. honest. But there was a huge difference in this years germination. We had mushroom containers totally covered in seedlings. so many that we couldn't separate seedlings and planted hunks of them every where. My neighbor across the street still hasn't planted hers out yet and the entire container is covered in flowers and seedlings covering the container. We have to have thousands of seedlings this year. On top of that, we have seedlings of the viola popping up all over the place in the lawn and my neighbor has several popping up in her yard as well. Doesn't make any sense to me why on the third year with the seeds, second year of collecting seeds we have mass germination and the prior 2 years including the first year from commercial purchase the germination was very poor. Fran...See MoreDog Days Are Over -- late August Pics
Comments (4)Everything looks so lush and lovely, unlike my overgrown canopy of green, lush yes but it lies in wait ready to reach out and strangle me as I pass by, or that Clematis that tries to curl around my ankles tripping me as I try to sneak through the pergola. Hope to visit your blog tonight when I can sit down for more than 5 minutes. I made a good start in back 40 (snicker) on friday, shovel pruned a rose, a David Austin, when will I learn not to buy grafted roses Urghh! Cleaned out the bed where I have a hardy Rosemary 'Arp', came through below 0 temps just fine. Cleaned up the bed where I shovel pruned, had a look at the raspberry bed thinking to myself tomorrow I'll get at you HA! As we were coming home from town yesterday I said to DH swing by the feed store I want to pick up another bag of sunshine mix No.4 I have several projects I need it for, I'm going to spend another afternoon in the garden tackling Operation Cleanup so no plans for anything else. What is it they say about best laid plans? But it's a good thing, or at least I hope it will be.... later :o) Annette...See MoreStart of the Late Show and those hanging on Part 1
Comments (20)THANK YOU ALL for taking the time to comment on my pictures! I am always so busy taking care of Mom and the grandbabies that my computer time is limited but a new post is on it's way very soon, I promise. I have SO many latebloomers so I have tons of photos left to go. To answer questions: Mantis, Frank's Star of Bethlehem doesn't usually bloom beneath the foliage but this year it wasn't much above it as you see in the photo. It doesn't have tall scapes anyway but they are above the foliage. This is why I planted it in the front of my border. But I also think it's the kind of daylily folks enjoy seeing closeup anyway so I don't mind it's shorter stature. It does bloom late every year here, but for such a frilly bloom it opens well. For those who asked about Catherine Neal....the color on mine does not fade. It is very dark, just as you see in the photo. Actually it is hard to get a good photo of it to show just how dark it really is. Nancy, that red flower is indeed a coreopsis. I lost the tag and don't remember the name but it is one of the newer ones on the market. With so many flowers and people stopping to look, somtimes tags disappear and then my brain freezes up for the names....lol. I do the paths also, but some aren't finished yet because I ran out of slate. I will be posting again soon for anyone interested in seeing more of the late show....thanks for looking! Celeste...See MoreIs it too late to start over?
Comments (4)Ditto on the comments by Chris, regarding bush snaps. There is still plenty of time left to plant. Last year, I put in bush beans over the July 4th weekend, and froze enough beans to last through the winter. That took a lot of beans... winters are long here. ;-) With your more favorable climate, Daisyjoy, nothing is out of reach at this point. You should be able to plant any beans you wish until somewhere around the end of June, and bush beans for at least most of July. To put things in perspective, I am just now planting my beans in Wisconsin, and I expect to get dry seed for most of them before frost. You may find that you get better germination in the later plantings, since the soil is warmer than it was when you first planted....See Morezak
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