2011 Garden Projects

You itch immediately??

ticks are so many around here, that docs automatically give anti biotics when a tick has been attached (not when just seen crawling). I hope our ticks are starving since deer where not around in the snow, but of course the mice have been active.

Just planted the remainder of the FW order, except for the honeysuckle. I need to put up a trellis for that first.

In my experience with ticks (which was a good deal in my younger years) if you pull them out with tweasers you will most likely leave the head in which in turn causes the itching, reddening and possible infection. One or two old time methods of removing ticks is to light a match, blow out the flame and quickly touch the tick and he should back out. The other method is to take a bottle of alcohol, remove the cap and place it upside down on the tick and this usually causes him/her to back out. And last but not least I always burned the little beggars when I got them out, usually by throwing them on the range burners. There is one other method too.

Yes, both will work. I have done the heat one. The other one I heard of, but did not try, is to cover with vaseline. They are supposed to back out to get oxygen.

my dad used to use clear nail polish

I knew about the match trick.

I read NOT to burn them because they puke all the poisons out into you

I think the vaseline is probably the same as alcohol.

Wow - isn't that kind of personal, Allison? Think he'd want that known. ^_^

LOL

Yes, Victor, I start itching within the hour....that's how I usually know when one is attached.....

I know the match thing works but it is a common mistake when used for the removal of Deer ticks by many.

Deer ticks should never be removed by a match or anything that can cause them to become annoyed and spill their guts on you containing the bacteria. You need to use twisters and get the head out with the body. I was part of many long studies about Lyme and attended a Harvard School of Public Health conference as one of the patience to talk to doctors and health care workers attending form all over the world.about the illness. During part of the conference several speakers went to went to great length to talk about the proper removal of the tick. Which is of prime importance as most third world people bitten by a deer tick can't afford the medication, so proper removal to avoid getting the bacteria for Lyme Disease is their best hope.

I have a tick 'popper' that works better than tweezers, which often do leave the head parts in.

This is a project I have waited years to do. Hired the guys and will also have them back next week to reset and repair the Woodswalk Garden path.
https://picasaweb.google.com/jgentle4/EdgingDoneApril201102

I had a tick inbedded in my neck so far that the doctor had to dig it out with a scalpel and then cauterize it

That started off sounding like a joke, Jen. 'It was so deep in my neck it had to be removed by a podiatrist!' ^_^

I've never seen a tick and didn't know they were around so much.

That edging looks great, Jo. Looking forward to seeing pics of the garden path when it's done.

Karen

WOW Deb you've NEVER seen a tick???? I'm moving up by you!!!!

I haven't seen them here, but then I haven't been where they are.
Saw them alot when growing up in MA.

i get a couple dozen on me a year - the tick check at the end of the day is a necessity

Mom's house is very woodsy, oddly enough we never found them on the ponies. Just on us and the cat at the time.

We did a major final clean up, well almost final, of a new bed that will be for a herd of Japanese maples and a mess of shrubs, and heuchera, , Siberian Iris, sedums, and a few other goodies. Plus a ton of bulbs which I have already ordered. I need to edge it and get rid of the pine mulch that I mounded up so I could see the boundaries.

We have been working our way through a nightmare of vines, downed trees and old stumps, trash trees and shrubs all loaded with PI for quite a few years just to see the possibilities. Plus lots of deer ticks. We have to build the stone stairs, but the rocks are all over there and I cut in some temporary ones which work just not leveled or artistically placed, but that project can wait until the planting season is over. Too much to do now. Of course the stairs just go up to a path that winds through more land that we are gradually cleaning up. "Bridge to Nowhere". We have called it Jed's Bed after my friend who comes to help us from Brooklyn. Of course he wanted us to dig a pond to complete the area. Fat chance. Patti

Your property continues to amaze me Patti
Tell him to dig it himself if he wants a pond..LOL

Thanks, He would in a heart beat...that would be the problem. He would dig the hole and leave for 6 months and then I would have to finish it. Patti

Better shot of part of it. Patti

Wow - your property seems to keep growing!!

My back says it is too. Patti

I bet... amazing how much work you did

New thread ,this one is loaded:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1170763/

very nice patti - build the pond! :)

Wha, you are bad. Wait till you see that hill a glow with Japanese Maples that you made me buy!

Thanks, Onewish1, I am thinking of a adding few Christmas lights over there too once things get big enough. I'll bet you would approve. Yours down yet? Patti

yes thank god...and I will approve!!!