Yet Another Coyote Attack in Central Florida
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Comments (17)Awwwwwwwww! Poor little guy and your DH so brave to go after the bobcat! Bobcats don't get that big but I can imagine they can still do some damage if they feel threatened. I sure hope Felix manages to pull through. If not, I hope all that nest sitting pays off with a lot of happy little ducklings that take after him! I remember when I lived on the edge of a parkway, you didn't know their were coyotes around until the siren of a fire truck or police car sounded down the road. Then you'd hear dozens of them howling eerily in the woods only 30 feet from our building. People in the suburbs here have to watch out for coyotes grabbing their pets. I have heard of Great Pyrenees being excellent guard dogs for livestock. One woman on YouTube who raises miniature goats (which are so dang cute) has one to watch over them. I think one would be a great idea to watch over your ducks! And just to let you know how formidable they can appear, my mother told me one day about the polar bear someone was walking down the road. I thought she was joking around until I saw it! This one was all white about the size of a large St. Bernard. Yet I hear they are quite sweet and gentle pets....See MoreCentral florida flower and plant show list??
Comments (5)11th Annual Master Gardener Plant Faire Saturday , April 4th - 8:30 to noon Volusia County Ag Center 3100 East New York Av DeLand 386-822-5778 for more info credit cards accepted bring your own wagon...See MoreHydrangeas in Central Florida
Comments (36)Amending the soil in pots in easier but watering is more of a problem as you have to water more frequently than in the ground and the sides of the pots can heat up enough to dry soil and roots near the walls. Some people put potted hydrangeas in hot location inside wooden square containers so the outside wooden shell will absorb the direct sunlight and the inner pot will not heat up as much. Of course, you ncan also take care of sunlight issues by moving the pot around anytime you see it getting being hit by sunlight after 11am (ie, I mean the 11am in the hot summer months, not the weak 11am sunlight we have now). Water absorbing small roots are in the top 4" so keep these as evenly moist as possible. Potting mix without aluminum or without aluminum & acidic conditions will produce pink blooms. That is all I get over here too but I am playing around with the amendments. After adding some in Spring, I have to add more again in the early Fall. I let the plant tell me (ie, if it gets iron chlorosis and the leaves go from dark to light green or if the leaves turn light yellow except for the leaf veins that remain dark green). But one Nikko Blue that turned out to be some lacecap get a little more and its bloomage has been purple the last two years. I added still more amendments this year and should notice the results soon as that lacecap is in the broccoli stage and should have open blooms soon....See MoreAnother Day, Another Terror Attack....
Comments (10)Hazel, Squash bugs sometimes get on the foliage of Seminole, but I don't think they have caused much harm. I don't know if Seminole has better tolerance of the diseases squash bugs spread or if squash bugs don't like the taste of their leaves or whatever and just don't stick around long enough to spread enough disease to harm the plants. I do try to kill squash bugs when I see them, even though I feel like the C. moschata type plants can just outgrow them. Any squash bug you allow to live is going to be breeding the next generation and the next one and the next one....and one of those generations will overwinter and attack all your squash plants next spring. I make no attempt whatsoever to grow C. pepo or C. maxima varieties at all, except under netting or summerweight row cover. There is no point. Either the squash bugs spread diseases that kill them or the SVBs get them, so why even plant them and go through the subsequent heartbreak of losing them. However, I got to grow all I wanted for 7 years here before the squash bugs and squash vine borers even found us, and those were the best 7 gardening years of my life because I grew every kind of squash and pumpkin that I'd ever wanted to grow. Bon, It is in the garden that I find hope for the future of this world, but then when I go into the house and hear the news, it sure gets discouraging. Why can't people everywhere just love each other, help each other and get along. You know, it is hard for me to understand someone so filled with hate that they want to kill random strangers. I'd rather be out in the garden any time, but the heat does make it hard. I do love the dragon flies too. I find them adorable and cute, and am astonished how many hang out in the garden with me all the time. They are just everywhere. Our little cat, Pumpkin, thinks I am the worst person on earth because I chastise him when he is chasing dragonflies and if he doesn't stop chasing them, I take him indoors for the rest of the day. He's learned he'd better not chase and catch butterflies, dragonflies, moths, birds of any kind, lizards, frogs, toads and rabbits. He thinks I am mean and ruin all his fun. He's pretty good now about following the rules, and mostly confines his hunting and killing to rodents, but he and I have gone round and round over whether or not he is going to kill indiscriminately. He's not, and he's finally learned that. I think of the garden as a peaceful place, and in one way it is. Yet, within/among all the non-human living beings in the garden, there are lots of life and death struggles between predator and prey. Life in the garden can be pretty violent, in its own little way. Still, I find more peace and happiness there than anywhere else. In the heat of the summer, I feel like I suffer from too little time spent in the garden! Mary, That is one of my favorite garden sayings too! Dawn...See Moredesertsteph
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