Michigan Gardening: penth2o, northern Michigan Zone 6, 1 by penth2o

penth2o wrote:
Hello Wantabe & Glevely,
Wantabe I thought I noticed while reading back posts on forums that you were from Milford but I see you have Jerome listed. I grew up in Milford. I may be mistaking. It was like 3 in the morn and I was tired of reading all night.

I started out looking online for a question I had and ran across Dave's. I like it as the member base is large. I haven't gotten all around the site yet but have been lurking for a few weeks now.

Glevely, I was born in Detroit (joy & evergreen) and when the riots hit my folks moved out to Milford and bought 2 hundred acres. They sold that in 72 and we went to Hell (by Pinckney ) for two years. They went to Pentwater & I moved to Europe (France, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy & Germany for nine years) Went to the U.P. eh & got a couple degrees from Michigan Tech and one from Northern MI. U. I now live in Pentwater, a small resort town on lake Michigan 14 miles south of Ludington. (pop. 820/winter 14,000/summer ).

I have 5 acres that is solid woods and have cleared out a section for frnt/bck yards & home. I’m on a sand dune / sugar sand so I have challenges to face. (that’s putting it mildly). I’m just getting into ornamental gardening but have had some real nice vegetable gardens in my Mother Earth News days. (an old mag that I haven’t heard of since the seventies). I started landscaping the land a little on weekends but have not got much done but cut down some 400 trees. I’m single & work way too many hours so it is slow. I did get a few rock walls in. I planted a few things to get going as I figured they would fill in and be nice by the time I get time to really go at it. Well it was more than a few things. $2,100 worth. The deer ate everything down to the ground. I let it sit for years and now I’m back in full force. I’m not quitting till I get this place in order.

So now I’m find myself on Dave’s and started my first blog. It’s just a start but I want to let you guys/gals see what I’m doing so you can give input when I’m about to screw up.
The bad thing is that you can’t comment on that blog thing so I haven’t figured the communications thing out yet.

Starting to ramble as I am tired so I will end this here.

It is nice to meet you folks and look forward to working with you.
Oh, I do have a pest prob. This one is all over my roses and weeping cherry tree. I have not been able to find it on the web but it looks like a longhorn. I just can’t find the exact bug on the web. Any ideas?


This message was edited Jul 24, 2009 11:43 PM