Gardening, anyone?

DeniseG - Sorry that you can no longer garden the way you used to, but LOVE your tenacity in still being able to enjoy in a smaller version. We are in a slow transition of prepping our retirement home (move to one property to another) and I love my current home and garden spots. The new property is pretty much a blank sheet and prior to BC I wondered how many garden spots I would end up with. And admittingly wondered if I wasn't setting myself up for to much work in my retirement years. So naturally with the BC I have questioned that even more. I love your idea of concrete edging. It is certainly something I may incorporate in the new location for us. I literally HAVE to have plants and trees and water and birds and a place to sit and enjoy . . . it looks like you have one already from your photo.

ScottieMom11 - Beavers? what type of damage do they do? are they after the wood or is it digging?

KB, what a gorgeous rose!

Scottie, oh man! Stupid beavers! Maybe you should try a crow protector thingy! It's looks just like a huge crow you connect a hose to it and let it chase off the beavers. It works great for deer etc I haven't tried fried radish greens but I do use them in my salads.

They are calling for rain next Tuesday but I doubt we get any :-(

The silly guy was back again tonight. He's so stinking cute!

Good night everyone, praying you all have sweet dreams! 🙏😴

Wench- stinkin' cute is right. Just adorable!

Lori, can I borrow you cutie raccoon? He would probably scare off the beavers.

The additional fencing we put up last night seems to have kept them away. We did not see any tracks in the dew covered grass this morning though, so I don't know if they tried in the middle of the night and gave up or just did not show. Keeping my fingers crossed. I'll take a pic of our temporary fencing and post. It's just stakes a wires and hopefully the HOA won't complain and make us remove them. We've had the front part up for more than a year now but it's less visible.

Scottie

We use the radish tops only and cook like any other greens (collards, etc.).

The fence seems to have stumped the beavers for now. These were the only critters in the yard today. They have a nest nearby,

Scottie

I keep checking for the baby bunnies that I found in my yard last month, but there is no sign of them. Think either a neighbor's cat must have gotten them or they have moved on. I miss Hoppy and Bun-Bun!

Scottie, your welcome to use my raccoons to scare off the beavers anytime! My little box sitter has been back every night and just sits there. I put a few vanilla wafers in the box for him last night. It was so cute watching him climb in there and just sit and stare at the patio doors. Every night I slide open the door enough until he gets nervous and starts to get up then I close the door so he won't leave. I've been able to open the door wider every night before he gets up. I'm still waiting for the mamas to show up with their little ones. I was able to feed a possum a feeble marshmallows by hand last night. I do it all the time with my raccoons but it was a first with a possum. The ricks are horrible here this year. I've been keeping the area around the house well sprayed when I saw one scurry across one of our windows. Praying your hubby heals with no complications. I've pulled 4 of them off me in the past few weeks. They are disgusting little creatures! What are they good for anyway?!

M0mmy, I'm glad the sun has finally shown up at your house. We're still waiting for rain here with none in sight for another week or more.

Heidi, meditation on a garden bench is so refreshing!

We finally got our pool up and running last night. We've had so many problems with pumps this year. The one we had was 14 years old and started to leak when I hooked it up. We got a new one and the leaf basket housing cracked about 2 hours after plugging it in. I hooked up a third one last night and so far this one works 🙏🤞

Gentle healing hugs to everyone 🤗

I can hear that little bugger now: "Trash Panda catchin' some rays!"

Lori. . .that trash panda is hilarious. What do you use to spray for ticks? Is there a bug spray that you can wear that deters ticks? Dh and I need to start hiking again and we use bug spray for mosquitos but I don't think it wards off ticks. There is not purpose in life for ticks, fire ants or mosquitos.

Heidi. . .sending some of our rain your way. We've had quite a lot.

Scottie

Bunnies can usually hold their own with cats. That kick is mighty.

Good Morning All.

Here is a Smilebox of our garden.

http://play.smilebox.com/SpreadMoreHappy/4e4455304...

Coach Vicky

MIL was trying to grow a tomato in Anchorage, AK. Every morning someone would take it out to sit in the sun and every evening someone would bring it back in because it was too cold at night. I'm not sure she ever got a tomato. I understand, because homegrown and bought are completely different veggies.

Coach Vicky, you have a beautiful garden! I would love to have those pretty raised gardens. Love it.

Enerva, you are doing a lot in your patio gardening. Good job. I had taken my fairy garden outside and it lasted a week before the squirrels or chipmunks dug in it, so I brought them back inside. I can enjoy them in my living room bay window as much as outside. If they dig in the other pots I can just move the dirt back, but of course they didn't bother those!

Scottie I am always so homesick for a blue hydrangea. I have some hydrangeas that do well up north here, but we don't have the acid soil for the blue and all I've ever gotten is a faint wisp of purple even with trying to alter the soil. I think they are one of the most beautiful flowers there are.

My cherry tree is ripening, so I'm looking forward to cherries. I now wish I had a vegetable garden after giving up on it. The only edible things I have this year are the cherries, red leaf lettuce and chives.

I should be shunned from this site. I bought a pretty pre-planted pot of New Guinea impatiens and put it on my front porch and this morning I noticed it is nearly dead! I forgot to water it for probably 3 days. All my other pots are on the deck in the back and I just didn't notice it was dry. I watered it and the back half came back to life but the front is not so I think I'll trim it up and hope it recovers.

gardener lol yes me too I already thought about it. So if you like to name my plants send me names lol

Here is what I just finished doing. Remember the white pots I got at ikea ? Well I took my drill and opened draining holes then move one of my plants to it and relocated her to my bedroom window cuz the squirrels seams to like to shew on her and from 3 I now have 2 ; ( So moved now to my bedroom window. The other two beautiful pots I got from the dollar store lol so cheap $3.00 cad I opened holes so I got 4 of those I now have two with draining holes and 2 without. Cuz in case I just want to place a plant temporarily in those. Still not sure which plant will I have in the ones I made holes. But probably my succulents which I have many growing from seeds .

And the CN tower lol from my window