Susan, I'd be happy to help you plan your new gardens once you get settled in. I love doing that!
Bummer about your peaches, Victor! We have a guy down the street who had a big peach grove and sells big buckets of them for $8 a bucket. Great deal!
Lobsters do look like 'sea bugs', come to think of it. I hate the thought of cooking a live lobster. It would be like the scene in 'Julie And Julia' where Julie has to cook the lobster. I feel sorry for the poor 'buggers' whenever I see them in their tank in the store, but then when I'm eating one I don't feel sorry for it at all.
Allison, those weeds the hummers love are called Jewel Weed or Touch-Me-Not. http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/1431/
Karen
Coffee Break # 17 - Early Fall?
wow Karen... you are good... that was really bad photo!!!
How about these new Hubble images?!!
And this one.
i saw those yesterday - fantastic!
Looks like they've been Photoshopped!
Must be the new chip they put in!
No it was the repairs that the guys did at a lot of risk to themselves. Better use of funds than returning to the moon, I say.
Phenomenal!!
My dad always put jewel weed juice on poison ivy to ease the itching, etc.
Hi Susan ^_^ I like eating all the creatures in the sea mmmmmm. Been very busy lifting, dividing and moving things and singing 'Baby Don't Die' to them all (takeoff of the classic 'Baby Come Back'). I have perfected the method for dealing with monster DLs: 'Walk softly and carry a big fork'.
Don't mind dividing the DLs, but the hostas are such pains! Loved that butterfly shaped galaxy!
RD the scary thing for me this year is lifting and dividing iris since it took me forever to get them at the right depth in the first place. There's something about -30 that makes you want to plant things deep :O
oh so true Dahlia!! I have a hard time buying into the "just lay them on top of the soil" bit about Iris's too. But they always come back...
My dear friend Birdies the Bulbous Queen scolds me constantly threegardeners. This just looks so doomed to me. I'm going to stick some annuals from a container in front of this one before f*a*l*l so I can't see the rhizomes, otherwise I will be sooooo tempted to cover them.
Allison, even though you're image of the Jewel Weed wasn't a good one, I'm very familiar with it, cause we have a lot here, too. The hummers love it!
Victor, nice Hubble images!
Don't cover the rizomes, Cousin Nut! No, no, no!!!! IrisMA will tell you the same thing!
Karen
No worries Cousin Nut. I will be strong. I have a iris-going-into-winter song that I sing now that helps me from going to the dark, deep side. "Don't Worry, Be Happy".
i find it hard to do myself - in fact most did not bloom this past year so i will make sure they are high enough
What are rhizomes??
funny - looking for the proper planting directions since i have 18 new ones to find homes for
Make a small mound & press rhizome down hard. Dig hole on sides of the mound & place roots in the holes, cover them. they are descibed as being 'ducks on water' when you finished.
will need to replant many i think - thx!
Too deep--Should have soil half way up the rhizome, covering the roots is important. Signing off for the night as having to correct & repeat letters because of nightly wrist braces.
O ya whanut I hear ya. I am the Queen of Planting Iris Too Deep so Have to Fix Them. Here is my rookie method as the Queen of PID. Take them right out and clean all the soil off them. It sounds scarey but we have to pay for our mistake and its ok to cry a little when you do this. Dig your hole a little bigger than your root spread. Throw in a handful of compost and bone meal. Ok this is way too funky weird but in the middle of the hole make a mound up to ground level. Place your naked iris on top of the mound and position the roots down into the hole. I know it's scarey but work with me. Now put compost/soil over the roots in the hole leaving the iris exposed and very naked scarey looking on top of the mound. As our expert says only 1/2 of the naked iris bum should be exposed. Now I dare ya. Walk away for the winter. This is often when I cave but we must be strong wha. No covering of the naked iris bums. Did I do good IrisMA? I've just had years and years of practise as the Queen of Planting Iris Too Deep. ps irisMA luv are you ok? Hope a bother and not pain luv.
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My dear friends I have to be about work tomorrow so let me say 'Lest We Forget'. I believe this is and will remain the greatest tragedy in our lifetime. We will remember and we will teach our children to remember. We are not afraid. We are stronger because of this and we will conquor anything anyone will throw at us now.
edit: I was alot more agressive in my original message but then I remembered the DG rules. Hope this is ok to post Dave and Admin.
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Thanks Dnut for the laughs and the thoughts for tomorrow.
d-nut I am fine. The wrist braces are to help a mild case of carpel tunnel. I normally rest my wrists on the ergomatic bar on the keyboard. But have to lift them in the evening or I hit other keys & all sorts of things appear which I have to clear away. So when I don't use that bar I keep hitting the wrong letters & it is too much annoyance to continue. Enjoyed your planting technique. You can check the plants to make sure that they don't wobble about a month after planting. they usually will be solidly in the hole. Does your ground stay frozen all winter? If it does only new plantings have to be mulched. We are so much further south that we get alternating freeze & thaw which is why we use a winter mulch.
D-nut--I do not think remembering those that lost their lives on 9/11, and since, and embracing freedom is terribly political. I hope everyone will take a moment to remember...
Let's hope it remains the greatest tragedy of our time. Unfortunately, I don't think it will be. I hope that as each year passes, the memories don't fade. Remembrance is what this day should always be about.
I'll never forget---not with my relatives being there----we were in K-port that day---I had to leave my stepson's house & go walk on the beach---I just cried & cried about everyone's safety---we didn't hear from them until late that night, but we heard from them, unlike so many others.
Nor will I. I described my entire experience last year so I will not repeat it. Just a few thoughts. To this day, it still amazes me that the bldgs came down. No one anticipated that while they were burning. I understand and agree with the physics behind the collapse, but that does not take away from the amazement.
We lost 7 from our town and dozens from our county.
Driving down the Palisades Pkway that morning means the first plane flew pretty close to me. If I did not have the radio on and windows closed, I probably would have heard it.
I'll also never forget hearing the fighter jets patrolling along the Hudson that night. While reassuring that we were being protected, it brought home the reality that we needed to be.
I remember how quiet the skies were after(since they grounded all the planes) we had the smoke coming down where we used to live in Sayreville.
Some people forget how great the Canadian people were in taking in thousands of stranded passengers. Thanks!
Those people in NL and NS are definitely my heros.
We could hear but not see the fighter jets flying cover. People at Logan were tramatised for a long time because the airliners left from there. The daughter of a childhood friend worked for am Express in one of the towers but was able to leave the building in time. I flew to England about a week & a half later & was mighty glad when the plane was over Canada.
I was in San Diego, DW called me just before I woke up to ask me to see if anything was on TV about NY. She was in a subway, on her way to 7 WTC and all the trains had stopped. I watched it on TV...
I was at the barn, but DH saw it on TV and called me. Couldn't believe the towers had fallen.
Wow - how fortunate for her, WC.
I am outraged when I hear about these moron 'truthers'. Talk about rubbing salt in an open wound. There was a show on Nat Geo last week which showed them to be the idiots they are. Every point they make was debunked. Of course they rejected it all. Their implosion theory is tight up there with those who claimed we never went to the moon.
D-nut, your pic is perfect of how irises like to be planted. IrisMA taught me well!
Thanks Jen--that's a nice sight. Putting a face and a story to the names really brings home how tragic these losses were.
That is a wonderful site. Thanks Jen.