Gardening, anyone?

Welcome Coach Vickie!

Gardennerd, water snakes have a tendency to be more aggressive than other snakes. I hate water moccasins! They are beyond aggressive! I've been chased by a few and I'm so glad none of them caught me! The Emory Rat Snake is very aggressive along with coachwhips aka chicken snakes. King snakes will eat rattlers as they are immune to their venom.

Scottie, I love frogs too! We have huge bull frogs in our pond that sing all night long. I'd love to catch a few and have some fresh fried frog legs just 2 or 3 of these guys will fill us both up.

Jazzy, me too! While everyone is running away from them I'm running to them, unless of course I can tell from a distance if it's poisonous!

I had a Desert King Snake named Sammy. He's in my freezer waiting to be stuffed. I cried like a baby when he died. He was a record length and I refused to turn him in for the herpatological record books. I had him for 18 years and I got him as an adult. I found him in the road with a broken jaw so I took him to our reptile vet Dr True and he told me he'd never survive due to his kind of injury. I tube fed Sammy for 6 weeks after his jaw was reset. I used to take Sammy with me to see Dr True once a year just to say nanananana!!

I got my muck buckets planted and my lilies are already growing. One has grown about 5" in just a few short days!

These lilies were all the same size when I planted them. The one on the left is a show off!!

The purple planters have my cockscombs in them. I'm waiting for my DH to put the side walk in for our walk out patio from the basement. I won't plant them in the ground until the side walk is finished.

Hoping to get out today and at least get the flowers for my flower bed and window boxes. Might even get some of the veggie plants today too

Well I got my veggie plants and some flowers. Might get more flowers if what I got today wasn't enough to go around all the boxes and flower bed

Me too.

Yep

We're now back to cooler days!

I am slowly getting caught up on 10+ pages of chitchat while loving the pics.

*Gardennerd* *Enerva* *froid89* *coachvicky*, Hi and Welcome!!

Gardennerd and ananda8, Thank You for the treatment information to help our maple with slime flux. We were told years ago by a forester to use hydrogen peroxide to treat wounds on trees.

WenchLori, I hope the beautiful blue spruce trees survive the fungus attack.

A neighbor posted the following resident barn toad pic on Facebook.

I've always had a soft spot in my heart for toads!

Toad! Toad! Toad! Not ROAD! I hate spellchecker!!

All my veggies and flowers planted

Wow so much going on here. I was way behind. While everyone is getting started on their gardens I have accomplished very little so far. It was warm here last weekend and I dragged my potted tropicals outside and purchased a couple of pre planted planters, but I didnt get anything in the ground. i do have some red leaf lettuce coming up in the pot I used last year so that is a treat.

Today its quite cool and rainy but I had a blast creating fairy gardens. Top one is a beachy scene and the other a woodland mountain type.

Have enough room yet in the garden for more veggies. Hubby wants to add more tomato plants.

Those plants are looking great Lori.

MOmmy, yes,if there is room, fill that space. Does hubby help put in the garden? I get so tired hoeing the weeds but I hate weeds. Plan to plant my seeds as soon as I get off the computer.

KB what a nice idea as a memorial

Twohobbies, great fairy scenes. Makes me smile. :-)

~Heidi

We put in more tomatoes this morning only to find we still had enough space to put something else in. Went to Home Depot to get a new garden hose and spray nozzle, so while we there we looked to see if they had some yellow neck squash and some zucchini. They had none that looked good or were decently priced, so we are going to try a local hardware store that also sells veggie and flower plants at a much cheaper price

Two hobbies- I have a couple indoor ones I have moved outside but no luck with blooming. My outdoor ones go gangbusters though? There is actually something you can buy that is helps cacti flower, look for it in the plant food section? By Shultz I believe.....

Here is a bird of paradise shrub flower (different than the bird of paradise plants many know of in the more tropical areas). These do well in the desert and my neighbor has one and this flower was creeping over my wall and caught the morning sun so I snapped a photo of it

Well I have been there - in the garden, actually off the deck using my walker. Finally! Shortness of breath from chemo drugs aside. I did it. Planted the beans (Landreth, Carlina, red swan) white French scallops, zucchini, many lettuce boxes, kale, chard, a French red onion, beets. The tomatoes are limited to Juane Flame, Juliet,Jeramiah Johnson, black cherry, yellow sun cherry, red grape. Last year I planted 12 types of tomatoes. Controlling my self and these were great. Also mini peppers, red Belgian peppers and chocolate and yellow peppers. Red and broadleaf basil. And done. Plus comos tall ones and zinnias in each tub. I have 2 dozen food grade drums cut in half for the planters. And deck planters and some garden holes actually in the ground. But this year only 4 tomatoes will go in the ground. Have to keep it simple and manageable.

Hubby had been meaning to trim back my lilac bush for the last few weeks, but he hadn't found the time until this last weekend. Had I known we were going to get some rain overnight, I wouldn't have watered my garden.