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Comments (3)Hi Ilene, Wow, I'm glad our droughts weren't as bad. It must get discouraging. We have decent soil but very thick sod so I've ended up doing lasagna style beds. It's amazing how quickly layers of grass clippings etc turn into nice soil. I have lots of earthworms. I top off the beds with composted horse manure that I found on Craigslist. The horse owners mixes in kitchen scraps and bedding plus turns the pile during the winter. He just asks a small fee for using his tractor to load our utility trailer. Have you tried composting worms? You might check to see if there are any permaculture groups in your area. I found one on meetup.com. Really enjoyed touring some places that are striving to be self-sufficient. Our DIL has layers. I'm thinking of some meat birds. Quite a few people in our area have goats. One of the men in our library book club brought in goat cheese he had made. It was quite good. Best wishes for new and improved garden beds....See MoreHello everyone
Comments (30)Welcome back, I am not from Alabama lol but I am in the South. The North Houston area here. I love watching the birds through all of my windows and skylights. There is a red headed and a yellow headed woodpecker that comes and pecks on the big tree right outside my office window. Some days they are both there at once. Very neat to watch. I had a road runner that would come peck on my windows out to my pool at my Dallas house, it would bring me treats for some reason. Bugs and worms etc, tap on the window and watch me me through the window. He loved hanging around the pool. I miss it....See MoreHello Everyone!
Comments (25)Hi from North Dakota. I hope you can be posting more again! I hope to see a video, too. Could Lola perhaps be a sister from another mother? LOL All I'm up to right now is mourning the loss of my youth (somehow turned 60 this year), chanting my battle cry "I'm freezing to death in North Dakota," and enjoying the boys, Harry, now 13 and Sam, a respectable 7. I can't have cats (reference 'the boys,' and Wes' allergies.) Do pop in more often! Harry, left, is far more happy than he appears in this shot. Sam is always a goof. You could probably work him into an act with Lola!...See MoreHello Everyone,
Comments (5)Prise them out with garden fork before you go nuts with the spade to dig them out. I always start about 8" from the base of the plant with the fork first so I can find out where the roots are. Then work around it lifting as I go. If your soil is good (mine isn't ) you may not even need a spade to cut them out. Some hostas can take dividing well some don't....personally I found that hosta with a "Sieboldiana" heritage (thunderbolt, color glory, northern exposure, Frances Williams, great expectations etc) did not respond well to splitting for me others with a fortunei or ventricosa or plantigenea background didn't seem to care if they were split and transported well. This is the best time of year to move them. Hope this helps....See More- gardener365 thanked David Olszyk, President, American Conifer Society
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