Here it is just too hot and too dry! trying to water and not run the well dry!!! Having the same issue, but in the evening everything does perk back up!
I agree with shelly dayton, slugs and snails. pennies are abundant, cheap, and effective application place around the plants. not only will they not cross the pennies, but the cuperic oxide that will leach into the soil will repel them and nematodes…
If you are not seeing footprints or damage to the frame, and the outside scallions are fine, then I would look for insect or slug activity. If they are chopped, I would think it may be a type of ant or pillbug(also known as doodle bugs or roly-poly)…
April 19
Garlic already 10-12" tall. Peas up about 4", beets, spinach. Oh SPRING!
Oh, this is so interesting. Your gardens are beautiful, so I am going to give this a try! I am going to look for that book too. I really don't have a problem with rocks, but I think that it will work for me. It is a lot easier than breaking my back trying to shovel and pick axe on my own.. I'll give it a try this Spring and let you know, Thanks Terri!
Hi Terri, You said you grow BORAGE but don't do anything with it. I also LOVE borage! It grows so easily from seed, then often reseeds itself. I have two suggestions for using it. First, the flowers are edible, so try putting one in each slot of an ice cube tray before adding water for very special ice cubes! I also use the leaves for making HERBAL ALE, as per the book Alewife's Garden available at www.radicalweeds.com, also a good source of herbal recipes.
At 9:33am on September 2, 2009, Sue Anderson said…
Thanks for the herb group welcome! Looking forward to lots of good conversation and ideas about herb plants. :)
I love how you have sectioned off your different gardens and your yard with the white picket fences. Just beautiful! I envy you being in the Catskills! I come from upstate NY, but have lived in VA, outside D.C., for the last 30 years and I have not and never will get used to these soooo hot and humid summers.
Would that not be a hoot to have a truck full of rocks show up some morning!!!!!! lol We took a bit of a break for a few days and was glad to return to some messages. Murray is 4 1/2 hrs south of Louisville. Come down I 65 to Elizabethtown, get Western Ky Pkwy, to Purchase Pkwy, .....it's just short of reaching Paducah. Murray State University is here. We have made a zillion trips up that direction when our oldest daughter was in school at Hanover College.....close to Madison, IN...a Norman Rockwell Town in my mind!!....I use to stop at a big flea mkt. right along the interstate in Louisville...have several favorite things from there!! Plus we alway enjoy the rivalry of the sports teams...i'm originally from West Virginia...go "eers!!
I really do miss the mountains here in Western Ky.....so I bring rocks home whenever I go visit family!! lol
Diane, sorry for not making my message more clear - my reminder was about those shrubs that need to be scaled down and in my region (zones 5 & 6) the buds for the next season form on new growth in August so cutting the brunches after July would have…
Crazy rainstorm last night, ripped down half the ivy on the wall. Had to cut it down, so I figured what the heck I'll collect snails in my garden. Armed with chopsticks (they make it way easy to gather up tiny guys under plants if you are profficent…
Sheryl, that shouldn't be a problem, I have a seed feeder in close proximity and the humming birds seem happy enough to share. They just seem to perch on the tiny twigs where the big guys cant get to. Chech the surronding territory, perhaps someone…
What housework-What cooking-I am delegating so that I can go out in my gardens.Besides my gardens I am on my computer watching the lovely new photos come up on "latest activity" HELP I am soo hooked. Don't want to change. Don't want to give it up ei…
Thanks! Isn't it funny I was plotting today hopw to get rid of them entirely? (Because they get a little weedy.) I'll leave them up, because I like them too.