all good as long as the gardener can remember where they are when she starts cooking...((ahem))
Your Neck of the Woods 2015 Part "Deux"
ROFLOL
He talked about not labeling plants, don't think Veggie Plant or Ornamental Plant. Just look at form color and growing requirements. Using Alpine strawberries and ground cover and blueberry bushes as a hedge.
Sally, The not remembering can be off-set by planting a tumble pot just outside the door with your most often sought after herbs, that's what I do. It also saves time when your busy. I also plant more in the garden and beds even though I often don't get them gathered and dried anyways.
I went to post yesterday and couldn't, it seems I forgot to pay my membership. LOL
Hm, Mothers Day- nice new pot for the deck to be planted with parsley, cilantro, chives...I can keep a few pots watered in summer, IF they are right on my main traffic path and line of sight.
It was a really interesting talk. He also talked about putting flowers in the Veggie garden and had a lot of very pretty pics in his slide show and I found that much of what he was talking about we already do. Now I am not growing a tomato plant next to my rose bush but we have pots of herbs on the patio, pot of tomatoes at the gazebo, ornamental peppers (yes they are edible) in several of my plantings and Creeping thyme and lavender in some of the beds, The glads, marigolds and a few daylilies grace the Veggie Garden. Only thing I can say is if I had seen his presentation a few years ago before we planted the variegated boxwood hedge at the end of the garden it would be a blueberry hedge instead.
Ric and I were out yesterday again. I had to pick something up and wasn't really feeling like getting dressed and going. Ric offered to pick it up for me and then at the last minute I threw on some clothes, grabbed the camera and Alfie and we all took off. We ended up just doing a big loop down to the house and around by the lake and home. After we picked up the netting, we headed for Pinchot State Park which is the beginning of the south end of Beaver Creek. Beaver Creek comes down from the north into the lake and then continues from the south end of the lake where there is a damn. It will pick up several small streams until it crosses the bridge where we took the pics last week and makes Beaver Hole a lovely spot for summer fun. Then another mile or two it will join the much larger Conewago Creek which is the creek just down the hill from us where my children played and we have great fun memories. I thought I would get some pics from the dam so you could see the southern beginning of this lovely little creek. It is still running high and we happened on some Kayakers getting ready to head out.
Looks like a nice outing Holly. Those Kayakers are sure eager. Yesterday was not a friendly day to be outside. I thought it was windy and cold.
Josh and Courtney were going to go out Kayaking but decided it was too windy for the larger creek they would have gone on.
Burr....sounds cold
Nice scenery, thanks for sharing. It was pretty blustery yesterday
It was, Ric saw about a doz Blue Birds. I noticed the BB houses along the top of the dam and Ric said didn't I see the BB's nope I was watching my footing and not looking up while I was walking. We climbed the hill to the top of the dam, makes a nice field area for the BB's.
Heading out to Garden Club meeting today.
Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone.
Rightbackatcha, Ric!!!!
You too Ric!
Darcy made 'shamrock' cookies. They have green sprinkles in them and they are sooo good. Gluten free of course :) Made with walnuts and choc chips too.
My sister in FL told me about already having azalea bloom and bees on her blueberries. Sounds unreal!
That does sound unreal!! Hard to believe spring is just around the corner.
Journey North tracks the northward progress of
Frog :
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/maps/spring2015.html?layers=frog
Leaf out:
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/maps/spring2015.html?layers=leaf
Signs of Spring (Fall)
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/maps/signs_spring2015.htm
Hummingbirds:
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/maps/humm_ruby_spring2015.html
Earthworms:
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/maps/spring2015.html?layers=earthworm
Monarch butterfly:
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/maps/monarch_spring2015.html
Tulips:
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/maps/tulips_spring2015.html
And other migrations, etc
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/maps/Maps.html
Oh, YEAH!!!
Here are some of the names of kids in my grandson's school:
Kelemua, Micah, Marissa, Arlo. Bran, Harvest, Maple. Otis, Kalil, Zora.
Sophia, Adi, Alev, Aziza, Phoebe, Cecily, Miles, Theo, Emmett,
Quintin, Riley, Collin, Kamea, Nelly, KeMyah, Willa, Mia, Esther, Bentley,
Jacob, LJ, Nayan, Olivia, Sage and Rowan.
He's got the whole world in his school. Love it
Hoo boy! So much for Christopher and Mary!
If I was going to name my kid Maple I would take it all they way and name him the more exciting Acer.
When I read Bran Harvest Maple I read Otis as Oats. Going with a whole plant based theme.
WOW--just missed another whole new Thread!!!
Need to make a point of looking at just "The MAF"--and NOT just at the
threads that pop up b/c I am "watching" them.
I guess if one does not happen to be looking at the last post of the "came from" here--
one can just miss the whole new Thread.
Bummer! I seem to do this too many times! I did just read all 65 posts above...
Such wonderful pictures and memories... All in just 11 days!
Sob...sob...G.
+++++++++Gita, you can click on 'Preferences" tab at top of your home page here.
Then select "Custom Homepage" from the left hand menu.
You can then choose to disable certain displays or select the order in which certain features like watched threads, Dmail or watched threads appear on your Homepage.
This is a link to how I have mine set up. Dmail col 1 position 1
Favorite Forums col 1 position #2
Thread Watcher col 1 position #3
http://davesgarden.com/tools/prefs/home.php
Judy--I have seen that Preferences link--but I have not done anything much about it.
Pretty much--IF there is a new poster on a Thread--it will, automatically, show up
on my Home page as a "Watched Thread". That is the only way I know there is
a new Post on that Thread. It will also tell me so when I open up DG.
That has worked for me--so far. Obviously--I miss a few when the Poster decides to
move on to a new Thread b/c the old one had too many posts--and I have not looked
at the end of the previous post.
That is what I need to pay more attention to... G.
Nice links Coleup, thanks :)
I got double great news yesterday! My oldest daughter and her friends finished their 3-week kayak/raft trip through the Grand Canyon. They had a great time, and the only problem they had was losing some of their provisions when a pack raft flipped.
And...she and her boyfriend got engaged during the trip; he proposed under a waterfall !!
YEAH, How wonderful on both counts. Son Josh got engaged at the head of the Appalachian Trail at the beginning of their hike, sounds like both of us have adventurous children.
Quite the memorable trip, Muddy! I'm sure you're relieved that she's completed the rafting excursion safely. Wishing much happiness to both of them.
Thanks! Yes, they're adventurous all right. I often wish I didn't know what they were doing until after they were done. After this 3 week trip, you'd think they'd just recover, right? But no...they went straight to Las Vegas to shower and then go rock climbing!
Hey all you amazingly creative people who turn the most unlikely things into yard art:
Can you think of something to do with this vintage piece of farm equipment that I found in the forest? If so, it's all yours!! If not, it's going in the trash because I don't have that particular creative bone.
I don't want to venture a guess as to how old it is, but the area was farmed for several hundred years before it became a housing development in the late 1960's. Judging from the variety of things I find in the creek valley, back then "taking out the trash" seemed to have meant taking it to the top of the hill and throwing it down!
Nothing I'm interested in but those wheels are really cool, it would be worth the work to take them off if you trash it.
I never would have noticed that. They are unusual looking; I'll try to get them off.
They are indeed very cool.
maybe a vintage hose reel. cool wheels. Might make a yard cart or trash can cart thing?
Maybe you could re-furbish it and have a nice hand cart--hand truck
to haul heavy things around. Looks like that is what it may have been.
http://www.homedepot.com/b/Storage-Organization-Moving-Boxes-Shipping-Supplies/Dollies-and-Hand-Trucks/N-5yc1vZc89rZ1z0tur1
You can buy new tires for these at HD--or Lowes.
https://www.google.com/search?q=hand+cart+tires&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
If all of these ideas pale--it would make a nice yard decoration--,any people have
old farm machinery as decorations on their lawns. Plant some flowers around it...etc..
Don't give up so soon! I am sure more "bright ideas" will surface here.
Gita
I never would have guessed that it's a hose reel...so it's not so old after all!
Congrats, Muddy! How exciting!
I am going by that round (squashed) cylinder part with the arms at the ends looking like they'd keep something contained as it gets wound on.
Will swap include hikes to 'your' stream/ restoration area?
Absolutely! It's only a few blocks away.