Deer jump in occasionally, but get all tangled in the cages when they do.
They only to it once.
Posted on 06/16/2019 11:44:52 AM PDT by dayglored
We'll have to keep the surviving houseplants indoors under Mother Nature decide to stop dripping on everything outdoors.
Deer jump in occasionally, but get all tangled in the cages when they do.
They only to it once.
It's ALWAYS a bad time to mention ticks.
I hate ticks. I've handled nearly everything that can infest a critter or a human -- maggots, leeches, worms, whatever -- but ticks bother me the most for some reason.
Especially those d@mn deer ticks that are endemic up here. One of 'em gave me Lyme Disease a few years back, caught it in time, but geez....
Earth IS going into a ‘Solar Minimum’ so that means cooler temps for a lot of us now through 2525. This period is predicted to be 500 years not 25.
THANK YOU!!! :-)))
> A few thoughts on the houseplant situation: Is there good drainage in each pot? If the houseplants are saturated, that’s suffocating the roots. Not a good thing. Are your night time temps falling below 50 degrees? Houseplants are generally tropical, and they don’t like that at all! Neither do my tomatoes this season - who are still green, but freaking out and setting fruit too soon and pretty much just SITTING THERE praying for SUNSHINE! When you moved your houseplants outdoors, did you put them into bright, direct sun? Doesn’t sound like you’ve had much sun if it’s raining so much, but they can get ‘sunburn’ just like we can. Those are my best guesses. The rest is up to God, LOL!
I think the houseplant pot drain was okay, but you mention temperature -- on clearer nights it has fallen to upper-40's. Could have been a factor. Hmmm.
So far direct sun hasn't been much of a problem, since we only get sun one day a week, if that. But hopefully we'll get more of that as we get into July...
My wife’s plants are suffering as well. The cucumbers are barely 6 inches high, by now they’d normally be entangled in the lattice.
It’s been raining since about April of last year. Constantly. Every few days, it’s an inch or more and every day there are spitting showers.
We are in Northern NJ, about 3 hours from the Finger lakes and have roughly the same weather pattern. It’s maddening.
2018 was the wettest year on record for NJ since they started keeping records in 1895. The state averaged 64 inches of rain. My part of the state was a few inches more than that.
STOP @#$%ING RAINING!!!!
Just blame Trump.
CNN will put you on the news.
It’s Trump’s global raining.
We have planted our vegetable garden twice now. Too cool earlier plus too wet. Not until I hilled the rows has anything doen remotely well. Now it is battling the deer. Thousands of acres of pasture and forest surround us and they come to our little garden, jump the fence and only eat when things reach a peak. Can’t use coyote urine since it attracts the coyotes and we love our cats.
It is just shaping up to be a wet and little cooler than normal summer.
Weeds need love too. What are you, a plant-rassist?
You say you’re growing weed?! Money does grow on trees.
Alien species from Europe are oppressive. But alien species from Africa will enhance diversity.
BAMBOO? if it is real bamboo ... you may wish to keep it!?
-——bamboo can be quite nice in a garden
we have kept SOME genuine weeds.. the ones with nice flowers that don’t do any real harm....why not?
smile smile
otherwise, weeds are best removed at the roots if you can...
or if you can’t then just cut them back as far as possible
(there’s a lot of concern, with mixed claims pro and con, about Roundup weed killer...maybe causing cancers...so we avoid it right now but it does work on most growing things so if you use any, aim only at the weed you want to eradicate and then wait a couple days for action)
have fun!
Best,
fhc
Ditto EIN !
No, my FRiend, the soil around here is heavy clay. I should know, as I dug up all that lousy contractor fill around the obligatory evergreen bushes in front of my co-op, to a depth of more than a foot. I schlepped bag after bag of good garden soil and peat moss on my shoulder from the car to the garden and dumped it into the garden space. I then hand-tilled the peat moss into every square inch of it, giving myself nice loamy soil. No sand about it! So, my soil holds moisture (this year I didn't put the mulch on top, as I just sold my property and am waiting for the closing) but never ever puddles.
Lots of houseplants which are in pre-arranged bunches, the kind of thing you buy for someone in the hospital, are way overcrowded into their decorative container, leaving no long term room for roots. Also, a LOT of those decorative containers have NO drainage holes, so you’d end up with your plants swimming in water, no O2 for their roots = DEAD. All my houseplants have drainage holes in their pots except the couple of hanging plants. I water once/week and I have lush thriving houseplants.
Well, if all this endless rain comes to that certain point, don't put the dumbasscrats in charge of filling up the "NOAA" ark! They'll fill that sucker up with queers, transgenders, fruitcakes, bulldykes, and various other LGBTQ weirdos, and nothing will survive, as they'll all be fruitful, but they won't multiply (especially those missing white males)!
Most of the island especially the south shore is sand. I know of clay areas. I’ve lived in 6-7 houses here. All sand Even helped a friend hand dig a cesspool hole. Sand. There were clay pits on (wait for it) clay pits road in east Northport. Whatever the ice age glacier pushed down from Connecticut that’s what’s here. The ocean broke that down to sand on the south shore to the central moraine. But most north of that moraine is also sand.
At least in Suffolk county
Summer? What summer?
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Everywhere you go
Take a look at zones five through ten gardening once again
With randy rains and silver skies so low..
What next? Christmas in July really would make sense.
It appears that the secret to success is to plant everything that will thrive in both zone 2 and a swamp.
I feel your pain.
It’s not the rain so much as the lack of sunshine. Mine runs off at an easy grade cuz I banked my planting rows.
Your tree is 30 inches tall?
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