Prairie start-up
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katob Z6ish, NE Pa
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Spring Clean Up and Time to Start New Plants
Comments (22)Temps here last week were in the 80s, so everything started really popping up and blooms pooping open. Very nice today too. Worked in the garden this morning wearing shorts and a tank top and my favorite flip-flops. So nice. I let My Girls out for an hour this morning to scratch around and eat bugs and grass. They have begun to lay eggs again and need the new grass to stimulate their egg production. They followed me around, clucking happily and singing their little sighing songs. So cute! The Jane Magnolia tree's flower buds have suddenly begun to swell and there are three flowers beginning to open. I sniffed one and oh, that sweet, one-of-a-kind fragrance! The honeybees and Hummingbird moths are out in droves today supping nectar from the purple Henbit flowers in the grass and visiting all the flowering shrubs. I've even seen butterflies for the past two weeks. Tulips preparing to bloom and hundreds of yellow jonquils, daffodils and purple Muscari Grape Hyacinths are blooming. Hostas and Peonies are poking their noses up through the soft earth and looking good. I could go on and on... The weather radio report yesterday predicts there will be lows in the mid-thirties in the next few days, dropping down into the low-20s on Friday night. Ain't that just DUCKY! If that happens, even if it is just for one night or one hour, I will surely bid a fond but sad farewell to most, if not all, of this year's spring flowers. .I can just kiss the Apricots goodbye...again...for a second year. It will spoil all the new tender growth on the roses and send all the little seedlings popping up in the garden to coldest Purgatory, Glad I didn't set out the Cole crops and onion sets. Unreal...See MoreComputer is locking up due to not enough memory on start-up
Comments (8)Maybe you could download a bootdisk and make a bootable floppy then you should have access the C: drive. If it doesnt start to a dos prompt you'll need to access the bios and set it so it looks to boot from floppy drive (FD) before Hard Drive (HD). This guy has a boot floppy exe that you download, then insert a floppy before running it and it automatically formats and makes a 98SE bootfloppy. I havent used this, he was first one that turned up in a search. It's hard to believe it wont let you get to a dos prompt. Have a feeling you've a loose wire or connection inside. Or maybe upset the memory or another card and need to reset it. Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.onecomputerguy.com/software_download.htm...See Morestarting up today!
Comments (5)I ordered some seeds off some Chinese company.. pretty sure i got ripped off on that batch... the scotch bonnet peppers they sent me are flipping blue... really??? The trinidad scorpion pepper seeds they sent me are not even hot... no spice at all.. anyone else find this strange??...See MoreBijou des Prairies/Gem of the Prairies
Comments (10)Mariannese,your pictures do show why I was tempted by this rose; the flowers are indeed beautiful. When in rose season does yours bloom? Melissa, thanks for asking about me. Nothing has changed for me, unfortuneately. I try to get out to do some gardening, but can only go rarely since I'm so disabled that it totally exhausts me. I have to fight off the feeling that I "just can't take any more pain and suffering". I'm worried about the weather as well. We've had some rain, but the trend isn't reassuring at all. Still, I did plant out one potted rose so far, thinking that, if they ever can actually do my hip, I won't be able to do any planting while I'm recovering. One day I'd so like to get some gallicas! It seems so hard to choose amongst them; they all look so beautiful. But I'm not sure that just chill factor is the only thing that would make a rose of a particular family not do well in this climate. Setigeras are native to the American prairies, apparently, and the climate there is just so different from here. I've tried rugosas in my garden, too; only three, because each one just "grew backwards" and wound up dying.I remember in Connemara, in Ireland, seeing them flourishing out in the wild...along with rhododendrons. And there were fuchsias growing along the roadsides, big, tall SHRUBS. I never even knew that fuchsias could get so big; I've only ever seen them as small house plants. Obviously, with all the peat bogs in Ireland, one assumes that the soil there tends to be quite acid, but rain patterens are totally different from Italy, too, as is temperature. It was always comfortable there, temperature-wise, none of these terrible extremes we get here.I loved it there......See Moreklunker
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