Hello and welcome. This is the Michigan forum. Glad you found us...Please come here often..Any questions..about getting around DG's please post here..someone will be along to help you out.. Please tell us what you are into...What is in your garden?....Again nice to meet and have you joined...
smiles..Diana...
welcome to our side of the Garden where in northern Mich are you ??
Gloria
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?
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Forgot to tell you. This thing just showed up when I came home from work. I found 12 of them. any ideas? Both this and the one from my last post have wings and fly.
Can you only post one pic per post on here?
welcome to the site and to the Michigan forum!
please ramble as much as you want!!
i have been busy this summer and mostly read what everyone else has been posting
looks like you did a lot of traveling!
Ludington is my favorite Michigan town=just beautiful!!!!
Wow....not really Northern I would say...great place to live...we are bottom middle of the state..crazy widdle town...Jerome...only has a post office and a church and a few house..we live on a lake..Called Lake LeAnn...and are retired..and loving every minute of it...So it is really nice to hear from you...Visit often...and sorry I do not know your bug..but check the bug files..out..maybe you already did....I am sure someone will come up with it..
Stay tuned...smiles....Diana...
Welcome penth2o. I don't know your bug either. Is it eating your plants? If not maybe it is a predator bug and friendly to your garden.
The first bug is just like the ones I found eating my cucumbers this morning. I'm not sure what it was but I sprayed the heck out of it anyway. I'm pretty passive and organic, but don't mess with my cucumbers! The other one looks like some kind of fly and they are usually harmless unless they are chewing on your hiney.
Dave's had a bug ID forum someplace.
Anyway, welcome! You live in my old stomping grounds. I grew up in Ludington/Scottville. My mother was from pentwater and I worked there for a summer or two at one of the beach associations. It is beautiful there and lots warmer than here. I'm just outside of T.C. and in a valley. I'm a zone 4, it's frustrating! I'm lucky to get impatients planted between frosts, let alone GROWING.
Hi Folks.
Quick question. Does this site email you when a reply is made to a forum you are watching or how do you keep track of the new replies when the topic title drops a couple pages down. Thanks.
Jylgaskin- I sprayed everything with sevin every other day for 14 days but it did not phase those bugs. I looked right now and have more and some seem to be getting bigger. It looks like the stripes on the back are turning into seperate dots. Like he will have three rows of two dots going down his back from head to tail. I can't tell if they are eating anything or not. The slugs are doing most of the damage that I can see. Those and a pesky chipmunk that followed behind me while I planted 30 yarrow & ate everyone down to the ground. Say goodnight chippy. What works for slugs. I spread something called Tero or tetro as it said it worked on slugs but I think it is for ants. I keep going out there and picking them off and mashing them.
I use to work around Williamsburg quite often when I was in the oil exploration biz. I was based out of T.C. You have it nice up there also. I started in Northport then got a house in Suttons bay but the drive along the west arm was brutal in the dead of winter so I ended up with a home in T.C. out by what we called Wayne hill. It is the big hill at the end of front street that overlooks the bays. All subdivisions and associations now but it use to be a wooded mountain that we played on with dirt bikes and rally cars not to mention the bonfires and parties to stay away from the city cops. That was when the funnyfarm was really a funnyfarm. I think it is a State facility now or abandoned.
Whats Moms name? Curious if I know the family.
EDIT: Sorry I asked the question about following forums too early without searching. I found the answer to that. Thanks.
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Hi Pento
Yes, you get emails if you get an email, otherwise, you can have on your home page threads y9ou
are watching.
My husband grew up in Baldwin, a half hour east of ludington, and he says he slept with every
girl in a 500 mile radius on that beach. LOL. Teenagers!!!
You need to garden the Maine way, with plants that love wind and sand. Try some junipers,
and beach plums and sea roses.
so nice to have you here with us
Sheri
Pento
go add your name to our sticky real names list. It makes us seem more real and more human
and reachable. we also have a map thing going of where we all live too.
sher
Done Sher.
I don't see it pop up Pentwater though and those maps are usually way off.
Growing up thats what it was all about around here. Beaches, Booze & Babes.
Actually, I think it still is. Nothing has changed.
Joel.
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Marcellus. Mention that name in Pentwater and you'll get an earfull. Grandpa was quite the man. Pretty much got run out of town by scandal, moved to Ludington and got involved with illegal hooch.( I had to be real careful about who I dated in Pentwater, it could be a cousin) He's the one who taught me how to garden.
I haven't seen a slug around here in several years. I have a couple of ducks who have baby ducks each spring. Big ducks love slugs, baby ducks really love slugs. Even though they can't get through the fence to the vegetable garden, they patrol around it and eat the slugs before they get there. The only bug a duck won't eat is box elder bugs. Noting eats them and nothing kills them. I hate box elder bugs.
I WAS one of thoes babes on the beach with the booze.
Lester Marcellus?
Oh Lord, you knew him?
lol
Hi and welcome. I watched a movie on Lifetime yesterday that was about Milford, Michigan. :)
I heard just today that ducks will eat all the weeds and vegetation in your pond. I need to get some ducks somewhere. :)
Brenda
Bernda I think they eat things we don't want them to at least the wild ducks here some times do ;0)
Like what? The only thing I don't want eaten are my perch. :)
I love perch too!!! ducks stroll through and nip off flower buds as they go:0(
Gloria
Well, my pond is a long ways from the house and my flowers so they're welcome to eat all the cattails and weeds down there that they want to.
Welcome!
Welcome. I don't post much but I learn a great deal reading other peoples experiences. I live right by Lake Huron across from Sarnia, Canada. I knew nothing about gardening when I bought my house 3 years ago , but I have learned so much about everything gardening from this website. I'm even learning enough to help my daughter in law and others. I appreciate everyone who gives advice or ask questions as I learn from every answer.
Thanks for the welcome folks.
Grammie, I'm in the same boat. I am so glad I found this site. Seems to be a great bunch of people on here. Very knowledgable which is what I need.
Flowrgirl1, Are you in Manistee for good now. Manistee is a great town with some beautiful homes in it and a lot of good history to the town. Still a lot of good folks up there.
Jylgaskin, No I didn't know him. I'm a history buff and know quite a bit of western coastline MI. history. The name rang a bell as I thought I had heard it before. I checked my database and his name came up. I am interested in the 1800's but he popped up for 1936. Don't worry, your secret is safe :} :)
Whew! Actually the Marcellus Family was one of the early settlers of Mason County. My G. G. Grandfather Sylvester got a land grant from the Civil War.
Welcome. Nice to have you here. Ronna
