Kathleen
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@pepperhead212 Thanks! I am going to give the hydrogen peroxide a try. The copper fungicide has helped but it is lingering.
*pouts and sulks*Deer. The trapper says that deer are too high strung and will injure themselves if trapped. Instead the dnr (dept of natural resources) if provided with enough evidence of the deer causing destruction within a small area that usually can't be hunted, will give a license for shooting them under certain circumstances. Then they are tested for brain disease, and if they pass can be used for human or animal food.
Rodentraiser - you do realize that the gladiolus and dahlias should be taken out of the ground for the winter? I know Washington State is borderline weather for leaving them in but I think from what you've mentioned about your winters... well, if you ever put more in, keep in mind it is best to lift them out for the winter and replant in the spring.
One of the reasons why I don't have any! LOL
If you don't need that space, just let it be. You can use the leaves. If you leave them, they will be back next year. I planted small parsley plants one year. They kept coming back every year for about 10 years. Parsley is actually a biennial. It makes seeds one year and just leaves the other year, but eventually some of the seeds take longer than a year to sprout. Then you get both first year and second year parsley every year. It's all good. The leaves look a little different on the second year parsley, the stuff that goes to seed, than the first year parsley, but it's fine for cooking.I finally saw a bunny this morning. We had about four or five a couple years ago that would hop around my yard until the squirrel chased them off, but none since then. Then this morning, one came hopping across the road and down the driveway. I don't know if my cat would attack anything that large.
And I had an I'll-be-damned moment this morning.
Several years ago, I made the mistake of ordering an azalea from Publisher's Clearing House. I may add that that azalea hasn't grown an inch in three years. But I digress.
When it started to put out its three leaves, I noticed there was another plant growing right next to it. I thought it was a weed and tried to yank it out, only to strip all the leaves off. So I figured it was probably part of the azalea and I should let it alone.
This year the little plant was taller than the azalea and looked nothing like it. So I gave it a good, careful yank, pulled it out and replanted it in another container. Well, I'll be...it's got little nubby blossoms on it now and it looks just like - exactly like - the large butterfly weed I have in my flower bed. I'll let it bloom to make sure and then the flower bed is where it will go, next to all the other butterfly weed plants.
Does anyone know if I should keep my parsley or not. It went to seed and now I have 3ft stems that look just like weeds. Should I cut them? Pull the plant? Ignore it?
And the Shasta daisies are blooming! But I remember buying and planting Shasta daisies and those were big round bushes. My daisies are big round bushes, too. But the flowers are on stems that are shooting up into the air. I'd like to have bushes back with flowers all over them instead of waving over the top like antennae. Is that going to happen or are my Shasta daisies just weird?
I finally saw a bunny this morning. We had about four or five a couple years ago that would hop around my yard until the squirrel chased them off, but none since then. Then this morning, one came hopping across the road and down the driveway. I don't know if my cat would attack anything that large.
And I had an I'll-be-damned moment this morning.
Several years ago, I made the mistake of ordering an azalea from Publisher's Clearing House. I may add that that azalea hasn't grown an inch in three years. But I digress.
When it started to put out its three leaves, I noticed there was another plant growing right next to it. I thought it was a weed and tried to yank it out, only to strip all the leaves off. So I figured it was probably part of the azalea and I should let it alone.
This year the little plant was taller than the azalea and looked nothing like it. So I gave it a good, careful yank, pulled it out and replanted it in another container. Well, I'll be...it's got little nubby blossoms on it now and it looks just like - exactly like - the large butterfly weed I have in my flower bed. I'll let it bloom to make sure and then the flower bed is where it will go, next to all the other butterfly weed plants.
Does anyone know if I should keep my parsley or not. It went to seed and now I have 3ft stems that look just like weeds. Should I cut them? Pull the plant? Ignore it?
And the Shasta daisies are blooming! But I remember buying and planting Shasta daisies and those were big round bushes. My daisies are big round bushes, too. But the flowers are on stems that are shooting up into the air. I'd like to have bushes back with flowers all over them instead of waving over the top like antennae. Is that going to happen or are my Shasta daisies just weird?
Another bunny today, gone. He said that was 8 so far this spring/summer. A squirrel but it climbed a tree and we couldn't find it after that.
We have a box trap out for raccoons, he saw some scat. And smaller rat traps for chipmunks baited with peanut butter.
Tonight 2 deer were in the neighbors yard, both little, or yearling, one albino (same one as before) and one regular white tail.
They also eat tomatoes, even while they are green. They eat strawberries and probably anything else that sets fruit. They dig some things. I found that putting raw onion rings in the yard prevented the misbehaviour. Well, they worked until they dried out. Then I had to put more or wet the dried up onion bits with a hose or hope for rain.It shouldn't be hard to keep rabbits out of your garden. I don't think they can climb over even a 2-foot fence.
I have no idea how squirrels can be a problem for a garden. They eat nuts and acorns.
Raccoons are a menace to garbage cans and bags. Our trash carts in my suburban city seem to be working to keep the raccoons at bay. Funny side story, the mascot for the main High School in my city is the Raccoons... well, now. 25 years ago, they were the "Fightin' Coons," but that obviously had to change. I actually have one of the old football jerseys that said "Coons" on it tucked away to show friends who are new to the city.
Then again, in the early 1990s, there were six brothels in my city.
CD
Squirrels dig in your garden burying what ever they happen to have. They can also dig up your newly sown seeds - and eat them!
Possums, raccoons, squirrels and rabbits - take your choice, will take one nasty bite out of each tomato and/or eggplant and walk away...