Is The Sun Shining on You Today?
9 years ago
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O Mister Sun Sun Bright n Shiny Sun Please shine down on meeeeeee
Comments (3)Me!!! i filled the crate full of the stay green soil and have been sowing my seeds!! ohhhh man ohhh man!! i am sosooo anxious for this warm weather to come over here and stay here!! no more heater on, no more windows shut! and i'd love for the air conditioner to be off for like 2 months!! :')) but in ks thats an impossibility just from the humidity alone!! LOL sometimes i look outside and see its sunny then look at the temp on the pc, 49. ahhhhh!! then its gonna rain :'(( its april i'm ready for may flowers!! YIPPEE!! :')) ***medo dreaming of flowers and warm weather!!*** :'))...See MoreIs the Sun Shining? Is It Still Raining At Your House?
Comments (16)My gardening buddy across the street said he had some chelated iron he would share with me for those plants that are showing signs of deficiency - all this rain is washing lots of nutrients out of the soil. This may also help the tomatoes, Sheri. We'll see what Dawn says. The Husky Cherry Red tomatoe plants are doing much better than any other cherries I've EVER planted. The foliage is so rugose that I don't think much of anything is eating it at all. Good for the tomatoes, bad for the hornworms. They have blooms all over them, and every time I pass them, I give them a shake. I'm getting lots of tiny little green balls, about the size of a pea, all over them. YEAH! I will definitely plant these again. The fennel is growing in leaps and bounds now, and I have about 30 black swallowtail eggs on my 4 plants. I put my little Bordered Patch and Silvery Checkerspot cats in my pop-up butterfly hamper. Some of the Silveries are already starting to make a chrysalis, and they are SO TINY, that they just look like tiny black balls when they form a "J". I rescued them all, you may remember, because the wasps were hovering all around the sunflower patch. They love to suck them dry. There is this HUMONGOUS red wasp that keeps hanging around - what kind is it? A hornet? Ugh.....gives me the shivers! Dawn, a month ago I had tons and tons of ladybugs. Now, all of a sudden, I see maybe one a day. What happened to them all? I do have plenty of lacewing eggs all over, so maybe they will come along and eventually consume the aphids. I wish the ladybugs would come back. I'm afraid to buy any because in all likelihood something is eating them and I don't want to just release a bunch of food for whatever it is. The mosquitoes are just horrible! I sure wish I had that bat house. But, I've almost decided I'll have to get a 30' pole (bury and set part of the pole in concrete) to mount it on. My house is a small cottage and doesn't have a very tall roofline. The website Dawn referred me to suggests at least 20' off the ground. I tried washing those aphids off, but it is so hard for me to bend over and get them all. I think I'll take some alcohol and Q-tips and just go sit on the ground and swab them off. I don't think the power spraying is really killing them. While I think the aphids serve a good purpose (they are great for identifying milkweed in the field) or growing around the house (like I have cynanchum laeve, milkweed vine, popping up all around), they sure do cause the black sooty mold on the plants. In the past, I've never had to worry about it cause the ladybugs did their job. But, it looks like it's a "hands on" year for me. Does anyone know how long it takes trumpet vine to blooms from seed? I have one that is the peach flowering one that is now two years old and hasn't bloomed yet. I think I heard that sometimes it takes 3-5 years for them to bloom when grown from seed. BTW - I think we had about half an inch of rain yesterday afternoon. It was very loud, hard rain storm. Susan...See MoreFun in the sun, today! What about you?
Comments (4)It was very cold, windy and rainy here and I spent a lot of the day getting things re-situated from having the house tented for termite extermination. I don't mind the dead ants and the dead termites but I hate seeing the dead spiders. I did a lot of stair climbing, lifting, twisting and squatting so I got my exercise. Tomorrow I am going back to water aerobics!...See MoreSun shines on sensor....
Comments (6)Mike....you have been so kind with your suggestions. My house is only 2 years old, so everything is pretty new. My builder and two others, who sell and install garage doors, have tried various things. All are stumped! I was laid up several months this time last year with back surgery, etc., so I never drove my car, so the garage door did not get used....so now this year, this problem has popped up....See More
9 years agoIt is shining, wall to wall now, but at 7:30 this morning it looked somewhat questionable. My picture of the sun in the east shining on the garage, but look at the sky to the west.
At sunrise, it of course cast the groundhogs shadow, but then disappeared till after 9 am. That groundhog lives just a few miles east of me. I may go strangle him.
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