Well I spent a whole after noon cleaning up and putting away my yard stuff. I really don't like to see them go. But I dont want it to get wrecked from the winter. So I always put them in my shed for the winter bye, bye, summer we will miss you ever so much..... Ronna
I even had help from my cat!!!! He really like to help clean up the cat nip!!!! His name is Pepper and hes 13....
HI Ronna
Yes we always put ours away too, but not this early. This year they will be going in my gh, which by the way I should be getting it either Friday or Monday. It just got shipped today and I can hardly wait :o)
Connie
Oh WOW nice cat ;-)
Yes i store all mine in my GH. But i havent started putting them away yet becuz
i need to clean the GH out a little and my buddy-lil dude thinks its his gh! He roost on it every nite and comes when i call him now!! :) Im going to hate when his owner gets well enough to come get him!!!
Well I usually dont put them away this early either but Im working like 10-12 days in a row and am very busy for the rest of september and most of october also. (next weekend going to see my son... ) Watch him graduate from Basic. So I had the time and some energy. Know what I mean???? Ronna
Wow Martha... hes is still hanging around huh he sure is beautiful.... His owner is sick? Thats to bad.
He had back surgery and was getting radiation treatments -he stop by to see if the bird was buggin me-ha ha I luv him!
dori
Ronna,
I put some stuff in the garage but I have way too much stuff to drag in and out each year. For the cement bird baths I just take the tops off and turn them over or lean them against the fence so they don't collect water. Same for my fountain. It's just so much easier to do it that way. My wooden stuff I put in the garage or under the leanto at the pole barn. I do plan to bring in as many geraniums as I can stack up against the wall on the steps going to my basement. The more I can save the less I have to buy next year.
I like to do my cleanup early. Night before last it got down to 35 degrees here. It's warmed up again but it's a matter of time before winter hits and it seems it comes fast and furious and I'm left with fall chores to do. I just can't stand to be outside in the cold. I spent 7 straight hours the other day cleaning out my big perennial bed. I still have the veggie garden to clean out. I'll get that done this week while it's warm.
I'd rather be a day too early than one minute too late when old man winter sneaks in. I don't mind the cold. I can't take it when it's cold AND windy. Cuts right through ya!
I did buy some red tulip bulbs today I want to get planted. I'm positive the deer or rabbits will eat them but I just have to try. They don't bother the daffodils but I sure love the tulips. See, I'm thinking about spring already and winter isn't even here yet. ha ha ha
Ronna, the cat is so cute and helpful too. I bet he keeps the mice population down as well. :)
Brenda
I take everything to the barn. One year I forgot one bunny and it cracked in a zillion pieces...Felt so bad... Mine are still out and since it is supposed to be nice this week, it is a chore that I should do now! Thanks for the reminder!
every year I say I'm not going to buy more stuff to store and low and behold some thing follows me home or the little mister finds some thing we just have to have so this week end I will have to start becuse as soon as deer season starts I will be working 70&80 hrs a week and it won't get done!!!!!!!!!
Gloria
Dori, what a beautiful pic of p-cock!! I just knew you were gonna make friends before the summer was over :) I have pond lilies to get sunk down into the depths, and a handful of plaster ducks and bunnies to put away too before the cold sets in. I spent almost the whole day last friday digging up iris and cutting brown spots and replanting them. Then getting the seed pods of all of the pretty flowers that bloomed :) Oh and lets not forget all the maters that nmartha so generously gave me :) We just loved the tiny red ones, yummmmm so sweet!!
Thank You Again My Wonderful Friend :)
Well Im very glad to hear from youall even though Ive never meet any of you I feel as though we are friends. Thanks for all the great tips and, I now what everyone means by things following you home from the store and it looks like they will look so good in your yard hahaha. Clearance is always good for me!!!!! Garage sales also. Ronna
Ronna, would love to meet all of you one day that would be so much fun
Gloria
Well I guess I sort of "put away" something yesterday (permanently!). http://agardenvariety.blogspot.com/
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OMG, that is so funny! It reminds me of a war I had on a rose years ago. This was before I became a 'real' gardnener and knew better than to remove anything from the wild.
I was paddling a canoe with a friend in Irish Hills and spotted the most beautiful wild roses. We paddled over and I got a piece of it. I brought it home and planted it in my backyard. BIG BIG MISTAKE! That thing spread by underground runners and was coming up in the middle of the grass and as far away as 10 feet! It had huge thorns. I chopped it down but each year it would revive itself. I had to take an ax to it and pull and pull and then dig and ax some more. I finally won though and killed it.
Please don't give up on all roses though. Get yourself a nice florabunda. Don't go for the wild ones. I find roses to be the one thing in my garden that are the easiest to grow and don't need dividing. :) I love Chicago Peace. It's the only flower I've ever grown that my husband actually noticed and said how "purdy" it was. :) I also like some of the David Austin roses. Heritage is one of my favorites.
Of course, black eyed susans are great too and easy to control. :)
I'm going to be doing some changes to things the deer won't eat. I'm tired of fighting them. My poor Sedum Autumn Joy has not been able to bloom for two falls in a row now because they eat it down to the ground. Come spring I'm digging it up and moving it inside the fence up by the house where I can keep a better eye on it. So far (knock on wood) the deer haven't jumped my fence. The rabbit squeezes through though. The deer also don't like hyssop and I like that a lot. They don't seem to eat daisys since I see a lot of those around in other gardens and cosmos. They won't touch my lavender and salvias or the beautiful catmints. I'm tired of defending my daylilies but may try them one more year. They don't seem too crazy about the iris. Somebody ate all my hostas down a couple days ago :( I got lazy with spraying my liquid fence. As long as I keep everything sprayed they leave it alone. I hope my peach trees come back after having their leaves eaten off.
Brenda
We never see deer here, even though we are in the woods, because we have an outside dog.
AWWWWWWWWWWW Brendda :( I love to watch the deer and the other day I looked out and saw the mother deer with her baby, so spotted and cute :) But they were inches away from the one garden that has the tall fence around it! When we first bought the place I could not wait to dig up the huge hostas and plant them under the many trees in the back of the property! Well, the very next day I walked out there, NONE...NONE.. Where were all the beautiful hostas I planted?? I mean it looked like a hundred buffalo's stomped the soil where they al were planted! Yep, then I found out how much deer and TURKEYS LOVE to munch them down, oh and yes, daylilies too :( How awful I felt as all the huge hostas belonged for years to my husband's late Mother! A few weeks ago I was standing near the pond just looking around when all of a sudden I looked up and there were 2 turkeys flying down trying to make a landing in the garden!!! Geesh, they came down and just missed the top of the fence and there they were, dang varments! I get kinda down when I think about all of the garden beauties that the turkeys, deet, and who knows what else have ruined, but there are always more to get another day :), LOL
sorry about your plants Tootsie you could have a turkey dinner or venison stew my neighbor might cook for you LOL
Gloria
We live right in town in plainwell and have never had a problem with the deer maybe a passing skunk once in a while. it must be disheartening to see everything eaten right to the ground im so sorry:(... thats a whole lot of work doing all that transplanting... i did quite a lot my self recently. Ronna
It is quite a shock to see some little stubs instead of hostas, stalks where there were lovely lillies, and tulips that you never see even come up. But we learn! LOL
You either do not plant these items, fence them, or let them be eaten to see the deer, turkeys, and other animals.
Hunters here make food plots of rye and other grain mix. They should use lillies! Ate the last of the venison last week. Oct 1 is circled on my calendar.
Like an idiot I planted a couple hundred red Appledorn tulip bulbs this week. I planted them in amongst the hundreds of daffodils out front. The wildlife don't bother daffodils because they are poisonous. They LOVE tulips though. My plan is to put a big fence on either end of the flower bed and keep it sprayed with Liquid Fence. The deer seem to be pretty respectful of barriers like fences. WE'll see if my plan works. I'm already dreaming of next spring and can envision those beautiful tulips in bloom. It will take a lot of watching and spraying and fencing. I hope it works.
My neighbors down at the end of the road have 4 outside dogs and it did not prevent the deer from jumping their electric fence and muching down their entire garden. The rabbits got in between the lines also. I think the wildlife knows they are on chains and can't reach them. :) The wildlife gets used to them too I think.
We cleaned out the veggie garden yesterday........all except for the cabbages. We're still working on eating down that row. :) I dumped all the trimmings and tomato plants out by the woods. Last evening I saw a good sized herd of deer in their chowing down. They love anything different to eat.
The birds or something got into our grapes and ate most of them. I did manage to get one bowlful. I had netting over them too!! I must have an awful lot of hungry critters here. :) They come in and eat the apples at night. I have 7 apple trees so there is plenty for them to eat.
Did anybody else plant bulbs yet? Does anyone plant bulbs in containers? What kind of success do you have with container bulb planting?
Brenda
Brenda I gave up on tulips years ago I love them but the chippies and other small critters must love them more I'v never had a bloom how sad I was willing to share!!!!!!
Gloria
hey loon i have not planted any new bulbs yet. i really try to plant a different bulb than what i already have every fall. absolutly love the daffys in the spring last year for the first spring i planted a beautiful assortment from brecks it was all kinds of daffys... they lasted for a long time also. different colors and shapes. love the grape hyacinths also. the tilips are nice but the daffys are my favs. im kinda glad we dont have the deer problem like most every one else does. but would love to be out of the city . oh well thats the brake huh? i havent even looked for any bulbs yet. are they out now? i never have tried the bulbs in the containers. but ive seen them and they are beautiful. well we leave on wed for kentucky.... have a great day eveyone we will have to start in on the rain dance again soon. Ronna
The daffys are one thing that the deer have not eaten yet.
Put away some of the deck furniture yesterday. It is always sad to start to winterize.
Here is a picture of my daffodils from a couple years ago. I examined my bed today and I see something is already in there digging up my tulip bulbs. I think I'll put some rodent poison out there to see if that deters them. I want my tulips to bloom nice and red in with all these daffs next spring. :)
Have a good trip Ronna. We'll start that dance for the rain right away. We need it. I couldn't even use my bulb planter because the soil was so dry it would just fall in the hole instead of coming out like a plug. Now, that's dry!!
Brenda
Brenda, I love your daff bed :)
I dug up and brought a tree my Father had growing on his 40 acres up north. We had to bring him home here, so I thought the next best thing was to dig up his fav tree. We took the bobcat up and in no time got the tree out. Funny thing tho was, it had hundreds of daffs planted at least 5 feet out all the way around from the trunk! I wondered why in the would he had planted so many bulbs and then of course after awhile they multiplied. Then it hit me, he planted them that way to keep the darn deer from eating the buds and branches!! I soon dug up all the daff bulbs and planted them all around the "TREE" just has he had! Also I was just reading an article on tricks to keep deer and critters away from your bulbs. First dig your hole, then place bulbs down in it, cover them with soil and put chicken wire over the top. The bulbs will grow and the stems will come up the holes in the wire.
Hope this helps
Patricia
Thanks Patricia. That is a good tip. I've also read that a fertilizer called Milorganite will deter animals. It's made out of sludge from sewers in Chicago or something. Sounds dreadful but I had a friend who used it and said it really did work. I'm going to look for some and broadcast it around the bed to see if it helps. I might put out some rat poison in a can or pail on it's side too and see if they go for that instead of my bulbs. :( Too bad my snake is hibernating or he would eat them. :)
What a nice gesture you did for your dad by digging up his favorite tree and replanting those bulbs. What kind of tree was it and how big was it? How is the tree doing after transplanting?
Brenda
HI Brenda..........just getting around to reading Michigan forum, and could not help wondering about your plea of help for all those lovley red tulips you planted......What you need is one German Shepherd roaming free on your property. I have two as you know, and I never have a problem with the deer. I do however have an occasional problem with bunnie rabbits, but that's because I get lazy and forget to put on the Liquid Fence.....Like you I live in the woods, on 200 acres, and we even feed the deer, but somehow they respect my garden, or perhaps its Cyndee and Blaze.....either way....as long as they stay outta it, that's all I am concerned about.
Hi Deann,
Your poochies are so cute. I would be so afraid to let a dog roam here. We get a fair amount of traffic on my road and if the dog got hit I'd never get over it I don't think.
I'm going to try to find some Milorganite to spread around and see if that helps. In hindsight I should have soaked those bulbs in that product that makes them taste bad (forget the name) before I planted them. Oh well. We'll see what comes up next spring.
Your dog keeps the deer out, but not the bunnies. Too funny.
Beautiful poochie Deanna they look very happy and content.... Brenda your daffys are so beautiful. They always look so happy. Well my son is all graduated from Basic now. He is now in Fort Leonadr Wood in Missouri. He said the bus ride there was way to long. But he seems to be doing so good. He actually gets to call home now. He looks very handsome in his uniform.... Thanks for all of the wonderful thoughts for our trip. Ronna
