YAKKETY YAK....Gypsies talk back....and forth

The only little one we had was really little....
I guess we didn't get enough rain for it to grow, so we lost that one.

Venice, if I can get a picture of my son the next time he is eating his scrambled eggs with the mushrooms in them, I'll try to post it.

I was told by my boyfriend for 3 years that a friend of his would come over and get them and eat them.

When Jean and Dave both ID'ed it at the same time, that was good enough for me ^_^
Out I ran after it!

LOL JIM

I saw a garden snake between the doors in the basement when I was a kid and nearly fainted! It really scarred me! They are just too sneaky for me.

Jim, I have pulled up all marigolds, cut off all black sweet tomato vines, and pulled up the 2 tomato plants that produced mushy tomatoes and even my basil because it was getting spots on the leaves. I still have white flies. I guess I will spray with that spray I got at Lowe's. Did you get rid of yours? Also, I have gnats flying around my compost pile. Do you think I should spray for those with Seven or something else? Or would that be bad for the compost?

any home remeidies for a cough that wont go away? i tried over the counter stuff prescr stuff ricola drops nothing works

Kassy that is a big one. The blue weed/flower has seeds if you want them..

Venice did you get all your flowers planted?

Jim my tomato plants have big new leaves no spots on them and are blooming again.

Home remedy for a cough: 1 cup whiskey, 1 cup lemon juice, 1 cup honey, and 1 teaspoon alum. Sip as needed.

White flies still in abundance. Can't keep the suckers down. The sevin won't hurt the compost but the gnats aren't hurting anything unless they are worrying you.

Sounds like a home remedy for a coma to me. LOL

My hay bale tomatoes are really growing and starting to bloom. Wish the stalks were bigger. They are headed for the roof of the green house. Glad yours are doing good. Fixing to go to ebay and see if I can buy daconil off there.

Rie, what type of cough do you have? Dry cough? Or do you have yuck come up?

Trust me, you aren't going to drink it like a cocktail.

Don't they sell it at the store there?

Jim, doesn't nitrogen make bigger stalks? Last year my neighbor kept giving her tomatoes fertilizer high in nitrogen. They never bloomed and they had stalks as big as my thumb!

JJ, yes I planted your lilies and columbine in good soil and peat. However, I didn't realize how loose the soil was because when I watered them it created a pond at least 1" deep! I dug out a channel so the water could drain. I will dig them up tomorrow morning when it is cool and they aren't so muddy and add more soil. The columbine and tinny lilly are in a different spot. The columbine looks droopy and hope it perks up once it is acclimated to its new soil and such. I guess I won't be able to tell how the lillies are doing until next spring when they bloom. I can't wait!

JJ, my BF would love them I'm sure..........he does like his weeds......LOL

Here Jim, this one would be just a tad bit safer..........LOL

The columbine should be fine. If not next spring let me know there is no shortage here. Have plenty to share.

I'm still digging and moving plants. Trying to decide where to put my new luna hibiscus plants I bought.
Tag says they get 2-3 ft tall, then I read an article said it got over 6 ft. Don't know what to believe and don't want to have to move it in a couple years

If I drive to Monroe, about 30 miles, I can get it. Thought I might buy a gal. off of ebay but it is to high and the shipping charges are way to high. Got see the heart doctor tomorrow for a check up, so will buy some in Monroe.

Does anyone know what these are? We have them growing all over down near the creek and flowering. I may want some seeds from them. We have 2 different colors down there.

and the other color

The one I almost stepped on is safer than that. I cut the suckers head off.

darn tomatoes!! The skins were like leather and couldn't get them off so now am making juice instead. Never had that happen before, think I will mix up some of Jims cough remedy and forget it lol

well and then we have some of these too ^_^

Looks like Aster Kassy

Jim, that one I put in was a pine snake, they don't bother people.........LOL

Wow, I have 3 colors of asters down there..........I love asters.
I'm going to have to make sure I get seeds from each of them.
I have never seen them down there before, or so many!

well not positive but just planted some that look like the purple ones someone else may have a better eye.

there were a few bees liking them too

Jim you be careful with those snakes.

Kassy those are pretty whatever they are. My DH wants to know if that puffball really big or are your feet little??

I'm thinking they may be wild asters too.
This is the time that asters usually start to blossom here I believe.

Hi all. Good to see everyone. Jim, glad you are sure footed....grin.

Hi Kassy....heading north time again? Down here we gat a wild mushroom called Chantorelles....they have a spicy, peppery flavor to them and when we are lucky enough to find them , I always make cream of Mushroom soup. DHJim could just about eat his weight in it. Try to make enough for freezer too, but unless I take it some out before hand, it winds up gone.

Rained again today...just enough to keep chasing me inside....enough, enough already....grin

Imazadi, sometimes a warm salt water gargle will help soothe a scratchy throat.

LOL JJ, no my feet are not little, it is BIG!!!!
And solid through out.

Kassy, those are certainly members of the Aster family especially the purple. The yellow and white are what are fondly called DYC and DWC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damned_yellow_composite

Hi Jean,
Yes, ended work this morning, so going to BF's on friday.

JJ, you must not have seen my puffball fry pictures that I posted....LOL

I'm going to get seeds from the 2 different purple ones that we have down there. And there are a whole bunch!

I'll tell him. He was looking over my shoulder, when I was looking at the picture.

He's the mushroom person around here. Someone gave me some the other day for him we didn't know what they were.
Found out they were called hen in the woods. I'm still not eating them.

I'm sending this in an e-mail to my BF and telling him "I want one!!"

It's not a chick.

I seen the puffball fry, he didn't. :)

That is so cute and it has feet!!

OK JJ, that mushroom you have to take the peal off, yes, it has a thin peal, and then it is solid and you slice it. I sliced some of it in about half inch slices and then fried it in butter and garlic.........Yummmmmmmmm

To freeze them for my son, I cut them in pieces and fied them and then froze them. Hey, BF ate them with scrambled eggs and he doesn't like mushrooms...........LOL

Tell him it kind of has a meaty texture, and Dave said they are the best mushrooms on the earth.

I'll have to see if I still might have the pictures in my camera and send them to you if I do ^_^

Yes, he is a little Button Quail. I want it!!

Kassy your pictures are so entertaining and your pep makes us all smile.

Look how good we treat our BIG cats here................LOL
This one has a hammock...........LOL