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Can't find any good chicken wire........
Comments (8)Thanks Judith and More to grow, I never use chicken wire for chickens....lol! It would never hold up to varmints. My run is covered with utility wire (12 guage), and then covered with 1/2" hardware cloth. I do use chicken wire around my garden, only to keep out the bunnies. I mostly use the chicken wire to protect my trees from bunnies and deer. But all the stuff I'm seeing out there is like aluminum foil......it's totally too flimsy. And sometimes the chicken wire I use around my garden lasts forever, and sometimes it rusts in one year. Seems like the way they make chicken wire is very inconsistent. Hmmmmm....stucco wire? I'll have to look into that. I do use concrete reinforcing wire for tomato cages......but it's pretty substantial, with 6x6" holes....See MoreBats and Ponds
Comments (6)Several years ago (when I just put my pond in) I had a pair of bats that would arrive at dusk. They would skim the water. Don't know if they were drinking or eating bugs. I would sit on my swing in the evenings and wait for them to come. My family had a fit and kept telling me I was going to get bit. But the bats never even batted an eyelash at me lol. They were around for 2 years. I was even thinking of having a bat house put on my chimney. Then just like that they left. We had huge ash trees cut down in our neighborhood due to the ash borer beetles. Maybe that's where they were hanging around lol. I sure do miss them. Jenny...See MoreChildren by different fathers
Comments (15)I have three half-siblings; two have one father, I'm from husband #2, my younger brother was #3. (We range from 27 to 46-I-think.) The three eldest were raised primarily by our fathers, with stepmothers. Pretty normal where I come from, to be frank - that IS the "traditional family", none of this Norman Rockwell-esque permanent-mommie-and-daddie, 2.5 kids and a dog named Spot stuff. DH and I celebrated our 14th wedding anniversary on Thursday (15.5 years together) and we're the freaks of the family. A relative of mine has recently and unexpectedly fathered his second child with a different woman than who had his first; that child is now something like three years old. (I'm undoubtedly a terrible auntie for not knowing right off the top of my head, but we are not a wuvvie-duvvie Cosby-show family. We're more... Christopher Titus. *chuckle*) He is not married to the mother of the impending child - they've been together something like four or five months - and I doubt they have any plans to do so, and it turns out that due to some legal errors he was never married to the mother of his first (also unplanned). He cannot afford to pay child support for #1, either - he's constantly asking for loans from various family members. When I got the announcement of the conception of #2, I briefly considered sending him a case of condoms and a reminder that his health plan will pay for a vasectomy. (My verbal comments were definitely unfit for a family forum.) Ah, rednecks......See MoreSucculents back-budding from higher light?
Comments (8)Rina - Man alive, that is a lot of Sempervivums from just one pot. I really like the idea of having a saucer like that. Seems like something I can easily manage. Keep me posted on how those ones do through the winter! Right now I just have the one plant. It was a wedding favour from a good friends of mine last year. I'm planning on sending her "One Year" photos of it on her/his anniversary (this weekend). If it pups though, I might get enough for a small community dish. Ben - Thanks for reaffirming this! Do you have a photo of your Dostenia(s)? They look pretty cool as a collection of trunks instead of just one. MintyLemonade - Agreed! Tight and compact growth definitely looks nicer, plus everything should hopefully continue to fit within my growing space. I actually found a really interesting journal article today on Light Signaling in Bud Outgrowth and Branching in Plants by Leduc et al. It's quite long and a bit complicated/technical but there is a lot of good research and interesting findings. The discussion goes far beyond Auxin and into things like Cytokinins/Phytochromes, which I hadn't the foggiest idea what they were about at all. Other hormones, plant sugars, and things like light wavelengths are also discussed. I would sum up the research journal as follows: Plants have many photoreceptors located all over - stems/leaves/roots/etc. High light intensities help signal these places and trigger the plant to have increased branching and bud outgrowth. The exact process is very complicated and not entirely known quite yet. It is clear that if there is a low ratio of Red to Far-Red light coupled with reduction of Blue light intensity, branching will decrease. Additionally, photoperiod does not impact branching in most plants. If I dare conclude.... it is possible to 'mask' etoliation in some succulents to some extent, depending on the species and growth habit. Of course, you can't hide particularly large leaves, but the internodal distances can end up looking shorter because of branching? Feel free to keep posting your thoughts, examples of your own plants, and ideas! Thanks!...See MoreChi
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