I was hoping this thread would hang on [under 200] until someone received their box.... but I dont wanna lose any dial-uppers
Boxes are on the way to their new homes/gardens....
we came from here -- > http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1067409/
My guess is some southerners will be getting the sweet packages tomorrow, the 14th.
Opps that my fault, LOl I shouldnt' have poste d os many pics . ; )
Oh, Ella, We loved the pictures. We wouldn't can anything, would we girls???
You did Fantastic.
Rides
nope.. not your fault... we all enjoyed the "adventure".
Nope, wouldn't have wanted to miss the full adventure! Squealing in anticipation.... will my box get here in time for me to take it skiing? Can you imagine a little piggy box on the slopes? Hmm, well this little piggy will be, assuming I can shove all the pork into my ski pants! Sounds like a perfect after-ski evening, delving into the piggy box with a cup of hot cider in one hand and my computer in the other... not sure my family would agree?
Now all yall have to take your piggie boxe's in room and squeal with delight and who ever gets first before you lose yourself in room have to run to computer and say I made it and then Ella be on to her bucket and hopefully more than a couple make it and you can all squel together . And I be watching so no when to close ears off and just see happy faces on puter later, Lol The Queen , aka Ella will be tossing all the piggies in her little seed cells and smiling sure hope she got enough gallon baggies.
Did tell her I would surprise her with some seed planting today , dog we was susposed to go ice skating in my back pond and lol and behold looks like the ice maybe melting just a tiny bit. And Lea was susposed to come , Its okay going down again tonight figured we could at least win the America's most funniest vidio's with this one .
Hang in there seeds a coming!!
Carolyn
Ella
the pictures are really important to the story - I can't imagine you leaving them out - taking up room? HA !
I'm in a tizzy of anticipation I tell ya - my snout is telling me that they haven't yet arrived. Suppose I could wash the cells & pots to get ready but I've been too busy planning just Where I'm going to put them all. Don't want to be a greedy piggy asking for more than I have room for.
My DH bought a bucket truck last year to paint the house. Still not painted but he put up new gutters & trimmed some trees. Sooo long story short - thats how we're going to get the bat houses up that far when I finally finish
nailing them together.
We have a feral colony of cats thus don't have a squirrel problem. So don't know how your chatty squirrels would affect the sleeping bats.
Terese, Happy Birthday and may all your flowers bloom as sweet as you are.
Hi Carolyn, I still need to get seeds out to you lol Just need to go back and read the colors that you want :) I have a little baggie waiting for the rest of the seeds have a few in there already. Glad to hear you are planting today tell us what you are sowing :)
I just sterilized some dirt I have this white mold again this year and already have some lisanthus seeds started and it's getting the mold! I sterlized the dirt! I wasn't going to start any begonias yet because they always get so hard to transplant getting so big at the bottom with the leaves but out of boredom think I will anyway :) Going to go ahead and plant my dusty miller too it's never big enough when I take it out in the spring to harden off from starting it in late Feb. early March. When does everyone else start theirs?
Happy Birthday Terese! Hope you have had a good day sounds like you started it out right and spoiled with the DH making you breakfast it sure sounded good too! Have you started any seeds yet :)
Ella don't blame yourself for that long thread getting to 200 already we want to see those pictures that why we sent you the batteries, some of us have been waiting all year to see the pctures of your trip to the PO this year! LOL Now we are looking forward to the pictures for next year lol OOPS getting ahead a bit aren't I LOL You could be our Piggy Queen forever and I do think we would all love it! All of that hard work and you do it so well thank you! Thanks to all the piggies that shared the trough too :) There may have been a little squeezing in there a time or two and some snorting at each other but wasn't it fun!
Ella, Bat houses need to be a minimum of 20 feet off the ground.
Re: Companion planting - Wouldn't the good bugs be attracted to the flowers anyway? Thought aphids & other nasties were a given unless you used strong pesticides.
Happy Birthday Tcs!!!!!
Did someone say Piggy Queen ??
some haven't seen this image before and for others -- it's been a while...
Oink Oink...
I have to fix Ella some kind of piggy thing,
just got to figure out WHAT!!!!
Found a pig just got to fix it up..Got to get the
old mule head juices going toward piggies. ☺
Lea -- I did some WS last week.... http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=7439498
I do need to get some more done though.
What a beautiful snowy bunch of jugs.
The seeds are well isulated in there.
Ahhhhhhh our Piggy Queen. All bow to Suzy our Mother Queen. I just the resident oen right now. LOL : )
Tcs.. Oh MY!!!!!!!!!! Look at that. At first glace I thought is that a giant snow cone. Then I looke d and saw all the wholes and thought what, and then it hit me ws jugs! What did ya plant? Somethign good I sure.
All that snow make s me shiver. Whiel I aite d for the last of piggy boxe s to arrive,before I coudl realy get starte d on stuff I did my version of ws too. heheheheheh Much mroe compy. I a wimp. LOL
What did you plant Star. It looks good and healthy.
Star -- here is the list of seeds that were sown.
Smooth Aster, BlueBird
NY Aster, Woods Purple
Hardy Algeratum
Aclaea Simplex, "Elstead"
NY Aster, "Professor Kippenburg"
Monarda, Lemon Balm
M. bradburiana, Horsemint
M. didyma "Panorama Mix"
Blue Delphinium
Erinus alpinus, Alpine Liverwort
Joe Pye, Gateway
NoID Bee Balm
M. Bee Balm, Marshalls Delight
Hopefully this weekend I'll have my curtains up [expecting them Friday] and I can get back to sowing a bit.
Happy Birthday tcs1366 Hope you had a great day...
Hope everyone else had a great day also..we had a lil sunshine, but its clouding up and the weatherman is calling for rain... sigh...
We have sun shine coming for a change it's been in the teens or lower they said for nineteen days! It's going to be 37 tomorrow I plan on getting some sun one way or another LOL
I remember now Terese that you sowed them a while back I wrote a reply about the bread ties and lost it and never went back in :) I do those ties in the spring when it's raining a lot but I'm afraid to in the winter when it could be dry I just use the duck tape for winter I would love to get away from it but it is breezy here all the time just about. We're suppose to have a dry winter this year and figure it will help to put the tape on for moisture.
Ella are those poppies? Is that snow? My eyes aren't that good! Looks like snow and poppies :)
i will apologize here about me being a piggy in the swap. as one has pointed out to me i was a hog on the swap and being new i went over board.
Star if some of mine were taken away due to this its ok. it was my fault i went overboard. i probably didnt need them anyway. so i will enjoy what i get and will decide next year if i participate agian. agian i am sorry i went over board and that was wrong of me.
going to go calm down then go to bed. night all and thanks
Have any of you looked at Value Seeds site lately? T&M has closed it down and directs you to a new site. A new T&M sale site. I looked and most of them are $1.99 and $2.99. I just looked at the first couple of pages. Don't know about their shipping.
Guess I will delete them from my addresses.
Jeanette
Hey Watch out for value seed site. I ha d bought seed son there and neve r ha d a problem before. But shortly afte r I bought and paid for seed s on thei rsite I got this giant gavanii ( sp) coffee machien show up in myyard. I ha d ups take it back and abotu a week later I got a card in mail from coffee company sayign that ha d receive dit and to call as to why. Well I did and foudn out it wa s charged to oen of my cards, with someone els e email addy . Now that card ha d not been use d in months and that wa s the onyl purchas e on it. I went to bank and turne d it in for fraud and got my money back. So I aint going to value seeds no more. Can't prove it wa s ther e site , but when it the oly plac e ya go make s me mighty suspicious.
Imazadi... You were not a fat piggy in fact I owe ya a coupel of seeds and been up this mornign tryign to clean up things aroudn here. I not a neat organized seed person. I throw all my seed in walmart bags, stuff in fridge and then go bezerk when I tryign to find again. Every year I say I gona organiz e and alphabetize and do I nope. Any ways, I foudn the bag that I had my seed in to make mroe for thos e fe w that i had missed. I am so happy this morning. : )
I'll be goign to walmart over the weekend and wil get soem more small bubbler envie s and get them otu to ya folks next week.
New piggy always go soem overboard, that wa s nto the main problem We had a coupel of piggie s that had liek oinked 400-500 packets. Thos e are the oens I mainly talkign about. I had to wean them back some. Don't want yoru colestrol goign sky high there. Ya gott a stay healthy to plant what ya got. LOL
leBug.. Ya dream on that the whit e is snow but nope them is Dahlias. That when they first starte d up . Actually it a white trash bag I cut em in half and put unde r my seed trays inth eflats befoe Iput under the lights. That them in the back now and today they wil get transplanted up.
That remind s me thos e who got the Verbascum Temptres s Whit e seed from me. Doing th ebaggy methos they only took thre e to pop up and watch cuz if ya don't get them out fast enough they will strech on ya. So now I gott a resow some.
Have ya ever had some seed and curiosity got the better of ya so ya just had to plant it? I had gotten soem extra seed from Sumemrhill , Varigated Cat Grass. Well, I opene d it up and plant soem and packe d the rest up and threw in tcs trough.
Now I am thinking , actually nto sur e what I was thinking, but for soem reason I had cat plant in my head. I googled and realize d what I thought I was plantign was goign to be Nepeta. Some how the word grass did not register in my brain, onyl the word cat seed.
I thought great, I plant a few and put em out side and mayeb it wil keep the feral cats away from udner my trailer and away from my stuff.
I plante d the seed and in two days i had sprouts. Now thes e sprout s looke d like they had taken a bath in clorox, they was so glowign white and bright , just abotu hurt the eye s to look at them.
A coupel of green lookign ones came up and oen that was varigate d but for the most part they all this ghostly lookign white.
Well they gre and they grew and they grew. They up to my light s now and I lookign at this trya and am wondering oh geez what do I do now. Houston I got a problem!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now I don't even have regula r grass in ym yard , it all weeds and such. So to have a tray of grass I have no ide a what to do. If I transplant them wil they spread out or just stay a single blade.
Do I get the lawn mower out and put tray in yard and giv e them a hair cut. Wil that make em branch out. I gott a do somethgin with them and just am drawign major major blank.
Only thing I cna think of is wonderign if this could be the next new bio-fuel LOL
So I need help! Somebody giv eme some ideas please!!!!!! I gott a do somethign before the cats unde r the trailer realiz e they here and decide to come in the trailer and decide to munch go bezerk and pass otu on my bed. teach me to reasearch or read the package label better. LOL
tcs. Her e what they gonan look like.
Happy Birthday Terese! ^_^
Star, haven't grown it but here's a little info, Hordeum vulgare 'variegata': http://www.territorialseed.com/product/9882/herb_seed?r=JWDAVEG
Hmmm, I wonder if I'll get my piggy box in a few hours! Thanks for all your work and narratives Star! :)
Oh, Hordeum vulgare is just the Latin name for Barley. So it will be an annual grass. Hey, you can always make beer with it! :)
Star,
that would be awesome in combo pot sure is pretty. I know susposed to make a list of it and what plants to put in with it lol. I really need to get this dusty miller going like Lea said because think would go great in combo pot. Can just go grab up out the yard.
Carolyn
Cool thanks Ella !! i just googled it and found this Within a week, you will have cat grass ready to go. Provides vitamins and fiber for your cat’s diet and keeps them from chewing on your prized house plants.
which is very cool because little man literally ATE a plant, all that was left was a half inch stub. I was pissed as i had no idea what it even was, and i have been babying it... i think i even saw some little buds where it was gonna bloom .... then not 30 min later, it was completely GONE. I never even got a photo of it.
tcs,
When my sister was alive and doing her seedling and of course she had cats ahe always did a tray full of cat grass and they munched away at that instea of her plants ,
Ella you need to plant a bunch before the hill that all those cats come down and go under the trailor maybe they just sit and wait for next crop. Hey make them happy and save the trailor and insulation.
Carolyn
What I afriad of is , and sure as shootign it wil happen, cuz ya all knwo it it weir d or unsual it gonan happen to me, I would put out and would have a thousand cats and kittens show up for oen measly tray of cat grass. : )
rcs. Knwo what ya mean abotu animals eating I had some small shrubs in pots and the dogs came adn ate leaves and stems and ate all the way down to nubs. Had fits. Forgot what it was , but remmebere d it mad e the fruit for the bird s that woudl get them drunk after eating. The dogs went bezerk chewign them up. Was gla d they didnt get sick from them.
You better do something, they crawl up there and have kittens.
Then you will have problems for your problems. And girl, you have too many problems.
hmm thats how i got my haven of cats. we bought a trailor off a lot by a reptubale dealer and come home with 2 cats and a litter. didnt know they were up in it till saw them a few days later.
i have one cat left out of that mess and he is fifteen. now at new house i have a haven full due to people up street has too many and some decided they like it here better and a few rescues.
my post office dont run till 10 oh the wait to go up there.
They knew a good home when they saw it. I figure with Ella's luck she will have a
trailer full. Poor girl....
My mailperson doesn't come by til this AFTERNOON. i feel like raiding the P.O. for my box of seed.
AWWWWWW!!!!!!
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That the problem they do have thei rkittens up unde r my trailer. They have for years They ripe d a hole in the black material that keeps th einsulation in an d have em up in there.
Wa s that last batch that one of cats move d in to my car loade d with plants and didnt knwo and got attacke d and went into panic wondering if I neede d rabie s shots. That wa s anightmare time.
yes Ella -- I do recall that "attack". that must have been so scary while it was happening.
If I would have thought should have sent the long hauler s out tueday and save d evrybody close til yesterday or today that way evrybody woudl have arrive d clos e together. The logn haulers gonan have probably a another day or so before they get especially if lots of snow.
Rides.. hehehehehhe I tryignt o keep busy form raidign my bucket. I have no ide a what i oinke d for. I dont keep track. I just eb surprised and doubel surprised.
Wiggle.. wiggle. oink..oink.. wallow wallow... I shoudl be nice and wait til evrybody has ther e box , but dont knwo if i cna wait that logn or not. I hear them cryign out, sow me. no sow me. hey I first sow me. LOL
Ella, I am so ready to see what I got. We are all waiting for that first "Igot my box" I am not very patient.I don't know how you can be so patient.
Stay away from those cats. I can see my little donkeys wth a cat. They would grab them by the tail and Sling them away. Want to borrow a donkey????
:) I did once chase down the UPS truck where I knew he stopped for lunch, since I had missed a delivery that had a new computer on it! He was actually really nice! But, I'm home now, and mail should come in an hour or so... but maybe not until tomorrow, as I'm a little further away... we'll see!
I got my piggy BOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
its in the back seat. have to wait till i get to open it as running to college to drop off this lap top and immuzation records for daughter to start.
but i got mine and cant wait to open it.
